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Valentine Sugar Cookies

February 13, 2019   By Becca Leave a Comment

We’ve been snowed in for days and days and days! I was thinking that some of my local friends might be in need of a new recipe to try. I’ve posted this recipe many times, but I thought it might need to move to the top of the blog for Valentine’s Day.  It’s my go-to recipe for any holiday or season.

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Valentine Sugar Cookies
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24 cookies
Ingredients
  • 18 Tbsp butter softened
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 Tbsp milk
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla
  • 6 cups flour
  • 4 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
Servings: cookies
Instructions
  1. Beat butter, shortening, and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, milk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and mix. Let dough chill in the fridge for 3 hours. Roll dough on a cutting board, lightly dusted with flour. I like a thick cookie, so I roll my dough slightly thicker than 1/4" thick. Cut in any shape desired. Bake for 7-8 minutes at 375 degrees. Cool and frost. For the frosting, my favorite is a simple powdered sugar and milk frosting. I pour powdered sugar into the bowl and add just a little bit of milk. Keep stirring and slowly add milk until you get to the desired consistency. If you want a thick frosting, add less milk. If you want a glaze, add more milk. I try to use as little food coloring as possible because DYE IS EVIL. A tiny little half-drop of red food coloring will make a nice pink. I also found an all natural food coloring on Amazon, by McCormick. You can also use a little raspberry juice to make a nice pink and then you don't need to use dye at all, which is good because DYE IS EVIL! (Ask me how I feel about food dyes in our foods!) Happy baking and Happy Valentine's Day!
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Classic Gingerbread Men

December 19, 2018   By Becca Leave a Comment

Well, friends, this is my favorite recipe of all time.  There is nothing better than soft gingerbread cookies to make it feel like Christmas.  I could (and do) make theses any time of the year.  This is the recipe my mom always made when I was younger.

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They certainly don’t have to be in the shape of gingerbread men.  When I get the urge to make this recipe in the middle of summer, round cookies with plain icing is a good way to go too.

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Classic Gingerbread Men
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24 medium sized cookies
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24 medium sized cookies
Classic Gingerbread Men
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24 medium sized cookies
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24 medium sized cookies
Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup molasses
  • 1 egg
  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp ground cloves
Servings: medium sized cookies
Instructions
  1. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and molasses. In a separate bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a time. Chill dough for at least 2 hours. Roll the dough, on a lightly floured board, 1/4 inch thick. Cut in any shape you choose. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 7 minutes, longer if you are using extra large cookie cutters. Frost with a butter cream frosting or a powdered sugar glaze.
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Graduation Sugar Cookies

May 24, 2018   By Becca Leave a Comment

I was just scrolling through Instagram and spotted some graduation sugar cookies from Jenny Cookies.  It reminded my that I don’t think I ever did a blog post about the graduation sugar cookies my niece and I made last year.  She wanted to make cookies for her brother’s graduation party and came over so we could bake together.

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We live in the same area as my sister and sister-in-law, so the kids all go to the same schools.  Once in high school, they are the Glacier Peak Grizzlies. We have a niece who graduated in 2016, a nephew in 2017, another niece in 2018, my son in 2019, and another niece in 2020 all from Glacier Peak.  Then, we get a little break until my daughter moves up to high school.

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I might be borrowing my sister-in-law’s graduation cap cookie cutter quite a bit.

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I think they turned out pretty cute!  Jenny, over at Jenny Cookies, uses buttercream for her frosting.  I’ve always used powdered sugar and milk and just mixed those two ingredients together to get the consistency I wanted.  I think I may shift over to buttercream.  I didn’t realize there were so many different buttercream frosting recipes.  Whenever I’ve used buttercream, I’ve just used the Wilton recipe.  Whichever frosting recipe you choose, I’m sure Google will help you discover lots of options.

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Graduation Sugar Cookies
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These are super soft rolled sugar cookies that can be cut with any cookie cutters you have on hand. The graduation cap cookie cutter came from Amazon and I had the other shapes in my collection.
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Graduation Sugar Cookies
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These are super soft rolled sugar cookies that can be cut with any cookie cutters you have on hand. The graduation cap cookie cutter came from Amazon and I had the other shapes in my collection.
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Ingredients
  • 6 cups flour
  • 4 1/2 tsps baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup + 2 tbsps butter
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 tbsps milk
  • 1 tbsp vanilla
Servings:
Instructions
  1. Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl, beat butter and shortening until fluffy. Add eggs, milk, and vanilla. Add flour mixture a little at a time. Cover and chill at least 3 hours.
  2. Roll the dough onto a floured board, to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutters. Place onto a parchment or Silpat lined baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-9 minutes. Larger cookies may take more time to bake. Cool and decorate with your choice of frosting.
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Apple Crisp

January 18, 2018   By Becca Leave a Comment

It’s been forever since I’ve felt like a blogger, writer, or photographer.  I kind of fell off the blogging wagon and can’t seem to crawl my way back on.  I made some apple crisp today and decided it was photo-worthy.  I didn’t bother to get my fancy camera out.  I just used my phone, but the pictures didn’t turn out horrible.

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Apple Crisp
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The perfect treat for a cold and rainy day.
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Apple Crisp
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The perfect treat for a cold and rainy day.
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8
Ingredients
  • 6 medium apples cored, peeled, and sliced
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 cup oats
  • 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1 stick butter softened
Servings:
Instructions
  1. Core, peel, and slice the apples. Add lemon juice and cinnamon. Stir together until apples are coated. In a separate bowl, combine oats, brown sugar, flour, and butter until crumbly. Pour the apples into a greased baking dish. (A 9x13 is fine. My favorite baking dish happens to be round.) Top with crumb topping. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes.
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Valentine Sugar Cookie Recipe

February 12, 2017   By Becca Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, so we couldn’t resist baking a few sugar cookies to pack in lunches this week.  This is my go-to recipe for sugar cookies of any shape.

Valentine Sugar Cookies

Valentine Sugar Cookies
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Ingredients
  • 18 TBSP butter softened
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 TBSP milk
  • 1 TBSP vanilla
  • 6 cups flour
  • 4 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
Servings:
Recipe Notes

Beat butter, shortening, and sugar in a large mixing bowl.  Add eggs, milk, and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients and mix.  Let dough chill in the fridge for 3 hours.

Roll dough on a cutting board, lightly dusted with flour.  I like a thick cookie, so I roll my dough slightly thicker than 1/4" thick.  Cut in any shape desired.

Bake for 7-8 minutes at 375 degrees.

Cool and frost.  For the frosting, my favorite is a simple powdered sugar and milk frosting.  I pour powdered sugar into the bowl and add just a little bit of milk.  Keep stirring and slowly add milk until you get to the desired consistency.  If you want a thick frosting, add less milk.  If you want a glaze, add more milk.  I try to use as little food coloring as possible because DYE IS EVIL.  A tiny little half-drop of red food coloring will make a nice pink.  You can also use a little raspberry juice to make a nice pink and then you don't need to use dye at all, which is good because DYE IS EVIL! (Ask me how I feel about food dyes in our foods!)

Happy baking and Happy Valentine's Day!

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Super Soft Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

November 22, 2016   By Becca Leave a Comment

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The invention of the gingerbread cookie is right up there with the invention chocolate chips, in my book. This is one of those recipes that has been part of the Holidays for as long as I can remember. My mom says the recipe came from a newspaper many, many years ago.  The original recipe calls these cookies Molasses Cookie Cutouts.

My mom had awesome cookie cutters when I was little.  I loved her Halloween cookie cutters.  They were orange plastic owl, witch, cat, and pumpkins.  The gingerbread man was my favorite.

I found these pictures of cookie cutters for sale on Ebay.  I think they are just like my mom’s.

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A couple of years ago my sister-in-law and I decided to find them on Ebay.  We were able to replace her broken gingerbread man and I bought one for myself too.  These must have been really popular, back in the day, because they weren’t too hard to find.

 

I’m always asked what my recipe is for the frosting I use on my cookies.  I just use powdered sugar and milk.  I put powdered sugar in a bowl and add a tiny bit of milk.  I stir that until I get the consistency that I want.  The kids love to frost their own cookies and they are finally getting pretty good at it. They always ask me how my cookies look so neatly frosted and I remind them that I have had about 35 years of practice.  I have been frosting cookies with my mom since the time I needed a stool to reach the counters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy! Happy baking and Happy Thanksgiving!

Super Soft Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup molasses
  • 1 egg
  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp ground cloves
Servings:
Instructions
  1. Mix butter and sugar. Add Molasses and egg. Add dry ingredients. Chill for 3 hours.
  2. Roll dough to 1/4 in thickness on a floured board. Cut into shapes Bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes.
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Hello, Friends. I'm Becca. I'm a teacher, and when I'm not in the classroom, I'm doing everything I can to create a happy home. I love to cook, bake, garden, sew, quilt, teach, and simply spend time with my family. I don't consider myself to be an artist, but I strive to find the art in the everyday things I do to make our house a home. Join me as I quilt you up some comfort or warm you with some cookies!

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Hello, Friends. I'm Becca. I'm a teacher, and when I'm not in the classroom, I'm doing everything I can to create a happy home. I love to cook, bake, garden, sew, quilt, teach, and simply spend time with my family. I don't consider myself to be an artist, but I strive to find the art in the everyday things I do to make our house a home. Join me as I quilt you up some comfort or warm you with some cookies!

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