SuGar CooKies

I have neVer been a crafty person. In fact I have always ran the other way when people even talked about crafts. Just ask Tancy!! I think that has changed since I started working at school. I see how much the kids love doing art projects. I think before I honestly didn't want to be bothered with doing it. How selfish of me! I think of all the fun things I have missed doing with my kids because of my own selfish thoughts. Now that I know how much fun it cAn be, my goal is to really take the time and do FuN little projects with the kids. (Don't get me wrong though....I still don't like a huge mess!!) Like I said in my previous post, this week I am really showing my family how much I love them. And after learning that LoVe is spelled TiMe. I have really tried to give my family my time. In doing that last nights project was making sugar cookies. ( I will post the recipe below ) And let me tell you. The kids were SO excited about this! Dada couldn't wait to get home from school! Homework was done in record time. I had previously made the dough, so all we had to do was roll and cut out the cookies.
The other day at Target (which I LoVe that store BTW) I picked up some cute heart shaped cookie cutters. They had about 4 different sizes which I loved! The kids had fun picking their size cookies that they wanted!
The kids didn't want my help. They wanted to do everything by themselves. I did roll out the dough most of the way and then let them "finish" rolling it out and then they picked their cutters and had at it. Some of the cookies looked better then others. Some of Brothers were pretty mutilated but it was so worth it to see the look of pride in his eyes.
We got the first batch in the oven and were anxiously waiting for them to come out of the oven! Dada couldn't wait to ice them!
I think Brother was just interested in icing 1 of them.....just so he could eat it! After he ate 1, he quickly disappeared!
I felt bad for Dada, her sugar was high yesterday, so she wasn't even able to have 1. But she was a great sport about it, and was happy just to help ice them.
I do want to thank Joy. She came over to babysit last night so HuNny and I could go out for VaLenTineS DaY. Dada and her finished icing the last dozen or so cookies. And then she even helped clean up the kitchen!




Here's the recipe for the SuGar CooKies. I used my favorite recipe book The Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

2/3 cup shortening
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
4 teaspoons milk
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Thoroughly cream shortening, sugar, and vanilla. Add egg; beat till light and fluffy. Stir in milk. Sift together dry ingredients; blend into creamed mixture. Divide dough in half. Chill 1 hour.

On lightly floured surface, roll half of dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Keep other half of dough chilled until ready to use. Cut into desired shape with cookie cutters. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 375 degrees about 6 to 8 minutes. Cool slightly, remove from pan. Makes 2 dozen



I also iced the cookies using a recipe I got from my best friends mom years ago. Her mom makes the most AmaZinG wedding cakes ever! And she used to work at this little amazing bakery where I grew up. Her name was Suzy, and she is a very dear lady to me. I don't think she knows how much she meant to me growing up. Erica and I would always want to go to each others house, but for one reason or the other I always ended up over at their house. Suzy AlWayS made me feel welcome and LoVed. Even when Erica and I would come up with quite the shenanigans ( and let me tell you, we had some doosys ) She was always KinD to me. Her home was a ReFugE to me especially when things in my life seemed so uncertain. I love her dearly. Anyway.....here is the recipe.

2 lbs powdered sugar
1 cup crisco
2 T butter
2/3 cup milk
1/2 t salt
2 t vanilla
Combine and beat for 10 min. This recipe makes a lot of icing. But it is worth it when you are making lots of cookies or cupcakes and you want lots of colors.