Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Christmas Cookies

On Saturday it was really cold, which put me in a Christmasy-cozy fire-hot chocolate-Christmas cookies mood. So...I baked some and happily, they turned out quite tasty. This recipe has been one of my favorite kinds of Christmas cookies since I was little and I got Tyler hooked on them last year. The secret to having them be the best ever is to eat them frozen. Yes, frozen solid. I'm not sure where we got this, I'm guessing either as children, we stole them out of the freezer when my mom made them ahead and were too impatient to wait for them to thaw or maybe my mom taught us to eat them that way. (and she probably learned to eat them the way I mentioned previously.) But anyhow, they are the best frozen. I don't even really like them warm. I waited to eat any till they had been in the freezer overnight.

Before:
After:And of course, making cookies gets boring. So I decided to try making it more interesting:

Have you ever tried to control sugar and where it goes? It's hard...so my writing on cookies didn't last past those 3.

Here's the recipe if anyone wants to try them:
Jean's Sugar Cookies (who's Jean? I have no clue, but thanks for the cookies, lady.)
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 1/4 cups flour

Beat the butter, sugars, vanilla, and egg. Add the dry ingredients. Roll into small balls. Flatten w/ bottom of glass dipped in plain or colored sugar. (apparently the bottoms of my glasses repel sugar or something cause the sugar wouldn't stick no matter what I tried. So I dipped the balls in the sugar and then flattened them. I used green sugar cause I like green and everyone needs more dye in their body--right? ;-))
Bake at 350 for 10-12 min.

Then, you can eat them...if you want them to not taste so great. If you want them to be completely delectable, you let them cool. Put them in ziplocks and freeze them. You try to be patient. Then you sneak over to the freezer whenever you have a hankering for a cookie and snatch a handful. (yes, if you're me)

3 comments:

Jody said...

ha,ha...I do hope you learned a few good eating habits from me other than dessert for breakfast and eating cookies frozen out of the freezer!

For the record, Jean was our neighbor lady that lived across the street and down one house from me when I was a little girl. Her husband actually built the houses my dad had built on that street. :)

erin said...

I never thought of dipping the dough straight into the sprinkles...I like how that looks!

Tess Bush said...

I totally want to eat one of the dough balls! Pre cooked are the best. I'm going to have to try them frozen. I'm hungry now. ha ha