Valentine Sugar Cookies

If you’re taking treats to your kids’ Valentine’s parties at school, consider taking these adorable heart shaped sugar cookies:

These are super easy to make, and my 3 year old loved helping me make them. All you need is a set of heart shaped cookie cutters…I bought a set of 6 at Walmart for less than $1.50.

American Flag Sugar Cookies

It’s been a while since we’ve made sugar cookies and yesterday I couldn’t resist any longer…I started wondering how on earth I could make American flag sugar cookies and this is what we ended up with:

The process seems long and complicated, but these turned out so cute and I can’t wait to take them to my husband’s work party! If it’s confusing, please leave a comment or e-mail me and I will explain it better.

Leprechaun Cookies

You are getting sleepy…very sleepy…

This year, we are totally ready in our home to hypnotize any Leprechauns we catch and trick them into telling us where the gold is stashed! How? With these:

 

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

When I made these cookies, all my husband would say is that I'm obsessed. Who can blame me? These turned out pretty darn cute if I do say so myself!

It is really easy to make these and they are such a fun variation of traditional sugar cookies. They're so cute you don't have to ice them...or you could in a continued candy corn theme.

Mix up a batch of sugar cookies. Separate your dough into 3 bowls. One bowl with about half of your dough. With the other half, take about a third and put that into another bowl, and the rest into your last bowl.

Using food coloring, make your largest bowl of dough yellow, the second largest orange, and leave the smallest bowl white. Mix, mush and smash until you have a uniform color.

Divide each of your colors in half. Take one half of your yellow dough and roll it into a snake. Flatten the top and bottom of it and lay it on wax paper.

Roll half of your orange into a snake the same length as your yellow, flatten the top and bottom a bit and lay that on top of your yellow snake.

Do the same with half of your white dough, but shape into a triangle and lay on top of your orange.

I had a request to explain the white layer better...hopefully this makes more sense... The above picture is just to show the general shape of your candy corn log (the log is lying on it's side, already chilled). Roll half of your white dough into a log the same length as your orange/yellow log and flatten the sides into a triangle. Put that on top of the orange layer.

Wrap up your tricolored snake with the wax paper and run your hands along the sides to flatten/smooth it out until your snake is more of a long triangle.

Do the same with your other half and allow to chill in the fridge for 2 hours.

Unwrap your logs and either using floss by wrapping it around the log and pulling it across each other, or a knife, cut your dough into 1/4 inch wide slices.
Lay on your cookie sheet and cook for 8-12 minutes.
 
Wish like crazy you had a window in your oven...pull out and allow to cool on the sheet for 1 minute.

Remove to a cooling rack and devour as soon as they are cool enough to handle. Enjoy!
I absolutely love C's new cheese smile :)

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Tie Dye Cookies

One of the things I love about Google Reader is the fact you can share cool things with your reader buddies. One of my friends shared this with my boys in mind and it was a blast! Despite my reluctance to make sugar cookies, these tie dye cookies are the coolest things since, well, tie dye cupcakes (which I still have to make with K)… For the cookies, I halved Baked Bree’s Sugar Cookies as follows: 1 cup softened butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 1/2 tsp vanilla 3 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt Cream butter and sugar until smooth Add eggs and vanilla, mix Add dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Kids are great for pouring in ingredients or measuring when they’re older…they’re also great at spreading the spilled ingredients all over the counter as if they were a bulldozer. Now for the fun part! Separate your dough into however many bowls you want colors of. Add a few drops of food coloring and mix until the color is evenly distributed. This is also great for kids, though K refused to participate because it was sticky. Have your little helper grab globs of each color and smoosh it into a log-like blob on a sheet of wax paper. For some reason, the stickiness was no longer an issue because K was more than willing to help. Ours turned into an alligator with eyes and legs :) When all the dough is smooshed together, gently roll it into more of a log, wrap the wax paper around it and chill for about 2 hours. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees once the dough is chilled. Slice the dough into 1/4 inch thick disks (without the wax paper of course). Have your helper arrange said dough on cookie sheets. Bake for 8-10 minutes, being sure to not let the edges brown. This batch made almost 3 dozen cookies. Let cool completely and devour! I think I’ve met my sugar cookie quota for the next 3 months!

 

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