I had my good little kitchen helper assisting me in making a double batch of big soft sugar cookies for Halloween.
I got the recipe from Allrecipes.com
original Recipe Yield 4 1/2 dozen
Ingredients
* 2/3 cup shortening
* 2/3 cup butter
* 1 1/2 cups white sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/3 cup granulated sugar for decoration
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, shortening and sugar. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt, stir into the creamed mixture until dough comes together. Roll dough into walnut sized balls and roll the balls in sugar. Place them on an unprepared cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
3. Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until bottom is light brown. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.
You know how when a cat is happy it purrs? Well when Porter is happy and content he hums. I love he hums all the time. I worried that it would be a problem at school, but so far his teacher said he is doing good. Here is a short video of Porter working and Humming. Once he noticed I was back in the room he stopped. He had been humming for about 5 min straight before I grabbed the camera.
(OK, it's not letting me download the video for some reason, I'll try again later, just trust me it was cute though!)
Here is what our cooked cookies came out looking like.
Here is Ethan helping frost our yummy cookies.
What a fun family tradition my mom did with us and now I get to do with my kids.
Thanks Mom!
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