Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Easter Cookies

So my good friend Melissa gave me the most awesome sugar cookie recipe, I'm not a good baker at all!! I'm an okay cook, but when it comes to cookies, cakes and yummy stuff I have no talent. I've tried making a few sugar cookie recipes before and they usually just end up being heart-shaped bricks that no one wants to eat. Trying to be a fun mom I will buy the girls the pre-made cookie dough and make sugar cookies that way but to be honest those don't turn out the greatest either. But this recipe is amazing, they are so soft and taste great even without frosting. I made them for Lynlee's Valentine's Day party at preschool, and they were a big hit. Tonight we made some Easter shapes and had a fun time.





The girls only frosted a few cookies, and I pretty sure I won't be eating any of them, Regan kept licking the frosting knife and then touching every cookie, she also kept eating all the sprinkles. But anyway here's the recipe for any bakers out there:

Sugar Cookies

2 cups Sugar

1 cup Butter(room temp.)

4 Eggs

Cream these ingredients together, then add the next two

4 tsp. Vanilla

1 cup Sour Cream

Add to the creamy mixture the following

7 cups Flour

1 tsp. Baking Soda

2 Tbsp. Baking Powder

2 tsp. Salt

Refrigerate a few hours then roll to 1/4" or 1/8" and cut into shapes. Bake at 400 for 8 minutes. They bake really fast, my oven gets really hot so it only took 6 minutes to bake, so just keep an eye on them. They are great Thanks Melissa!

2 comments:

ty.haley.t-dog.p.babyg said...

so i was trying to do good mom thing the other day too, it's funny we were making sugar cookies too. in fact we were using the EXACT same cookie cutters! anyways we were using a kitchen aid mixer and just as i added all the flour, t turned the mixer on HIGH and the kitchen was a cloud of flour for quite a while. all t had to say for himself was, "Mama I think we are going to need a little more flour." It was too cute to beat him for...even though after the hour clean up i really wanted to.

Warth Family said...

I totally am going to try to be all housewife-ish and try to make these cookies. I'll let you know how they turn out. By the way, Regan looks do grown up! She doesn't look like a baby at all anymore!