Cookie Swapping
My neighborhood just had a cookie/recipe swap for the holidays on Saturday. I really didn’t have the time to make cookies from scratch as I was setting up for this art show. Well, being the creative type that I am, I came up with the following recipe:
Ingredients
- Pillsbury Sugar Cookies
- Embellishments, such as colored sugar or nonpareil sprinkles
Supplies
- Cookie Sheet
- Wax or parchment paper
- Holiday Cookie Cutters
- Wire cooling rack (optional)
- Fancy Display plate or dish
- Holiday Seran Wrap
- Ribbon
- Baby Gate
- Crib
Prep (15 minutes)
Step 1: Place baby number 1 in the crib.
Step 2: Install baby gate to doorway of toddler’s room and place toddler in the room.
Step 3: Layout other ingredients and supplies and pre-heat oven at 35o°F.
Step 4: Using the premade dough, roll into balls and flatten with the palm of your hand.
Step 5: Place the dough onto the wax paper.
Step 6: Use cookie cutters to carve out shapes and remove excess dough.
Step 7: Place cookies onto the cookie sheet and put in oven.
Cooking (15-20 minutes)
Step 1: Set timer to 15 minutes.
Step 2: Go check on babies and make sure they do not need a diaper change or a feeding. Also, don’t forget to check that the toddler has not removed everything out of their drawers or toyboxes. (If so, begin singing the “clean-up” song, while assisting your toddler to put everything back again.)
Step 3: Run back to the stove and hope that nothing got burned, especially while you were putting back everything with your toddler and missed the timer going off.
Step 4: While cookies are still soft and warm, sprinkle colored sugar or sprinkles onto the cookies and apply slight pressure to the top to ensure that embellishments will stay put.
Step 5: Let cookies stand for 2-5 minutes and place onto wire cooling rack (if available).
Step 6: Remove cookies from wire rack or cookie sheet and place into decorative plate or dish.
Step 7: Cover with seran wrap and tie off with a ribbon
Step 8: Place on table before guests arrive or bring to holiday event.
Step 9: Let people believe that everything was entirely homemade, unless you are doing a cookie swap. If this is the case, just enclose a copy of this recipe and they will understand.
About the Blog Author:
Heather Lopez is an almost 30 married mom to 2 under 2. She runs an e-zine and social network focused on the health, nutrition, fitness, and happiness of new moms and mommies to be. She supports fellow mompreneurs and WAHM’s through her blog; by using mom vendors for her Happy and Healthy Mom Days, which are pamper/spa days for new moms and mommies to be; and the Happy and Healthy Mompreneur Fund , which takes 10% of the sales of Luz Selenia jewelry on her site to award a grant to a women wanting to start or expand a business.
Debby Reed
December 7, 2009
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