May 24, 2008
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All About Decorated Sugar Cookies

Like a child who has discovered a new toy, this article about Decorated Sugar Cookies will open up a whole new world of awe and wonder for you.

Traditions are very special in my family. My sisters and I talk about special events that happened as we were growing up and our desires to recreate them for our children. My mother was a person that liked routine and this lead to having many rituals and traditions. Every week end we would have the same meal. Saturday evening we would have steak baked potatoes, garlic toast and a tossed salad. On Sundays we would have chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and glazed carrots. The only thing that would vary was the kind of pie that we would have for dessert.

My mothers routine nature also spilled into the holidays. As each holiday would come around she would put up the same decorations in the same place. She would also take out her rolling pin and make a batch of decorated sugar cookies. When we were small and anxious to help in the baking process she had many different cookie cutters. She had cutters for every possible holiday and also a selection of generic cutters. Her decorated sugar cookies were well known in the neighborhood. She made large batches so we could share them with our friends. As we got older she no longer bothered with the different shapes, but the round decorated sugar cookies tasted as good. She would comment that with the seasonal sprinkles that are available in the decorating aisle, it was not longer necessary to shape the cookies, the sprinkles let you know which holiday is being celebrated.

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Now that I am a mom I have started making the decorated sugar cookies for my family. The children love to help frost and so does my husband. It has become a competition to see how can decorate the most elaborate cookie. This means that I have several icing bags with multiple colors of the frosting. My co-workers ask me how I can stand the mess. I told them that I buy the plastic bag icing bags and the cheap plastic icing tips. I also stock up on the plastic table clothes from the dollar store. I cover the work surface with the plastic cloth and when we are done with the decorated sugar cookies I roll up the frosting tubes in the plastic and throw it all away. This leaves the frosting bowl and the cookie sheets to wash up. I hope my children will fondly remember the times that we have spent together frosting the cookies. My sisters and I have talked about all getting together before Christmas to make the decorated sugar cookies. I think that would be a fun event during the holidays that does not include giving gifts.

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December 28, 2007
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Making My Grandmothers Butter Cookies Recipe

We have numerous other articles written on baking cakes and cookies and a few of them are about the butter cookies recipe.

There are many traditions that I have in my family and with friendships. My husband and I have enjoyed carrying on some of the traditions that we practiced in the families that we grew up in and we have also established new traditions that we have done within our family. As with most traditions and celebrations many of our rituals involve food.

We are both of German heritage and we both enjoy cooking as well as eating. From the time our children were little we have included them in preparing meals on a day to day basis and we have made special occasions out of preparing foods for our traditional celebrations. One of my fondest memories of helping my mom in the kitchen was making my grandmothers butter cookies recipe. It was fun making the different shapes out of the rolled out dough and then decorating the cookies once they were baked. Mom would have a variety of sprinkles and different colored frostings for us to use on the sugar cookies. If you feel that you have not learned anything new thus far, there is a whole new realm of information in the rest of this article.

I have used my grandmothers butter cookies recipe with my children. They enjoy making these cookies so much that we have increased the occasions that we make them for. My mother would only make the butter cookies recipe once a year at Christmas time. We also make the cut out cookies for Valentines Day, Easter and the fourth of July. The key to any good butter cookies recipe is that the dough has plenty of butter and that you leave it in the refrigerator for several hours and preferably over night. Having cold dough allows for easier rolling without needing to add extra flour, which can produce a dry cookie with little taste. Depending upon the holiday I will use different spices to add to the butter cookies recipe. At Christmas I add cinnamon to the dough and for Easter I add lemon extract. The key is to not worry about the mess and let the kids be as creative as they want to be with decorating. I have found that if I cover their work space with a cheap plastic table cloth the clean up is easy because I simply throw away the plastic when we are done. I also set aside cookies that I want frosted special for serving for parities or to take to various functions.

Now that our children are grown we have started making these special cookies with our grandchildren. It is neat that my grandmothers butter cookies recipe is now bringing smiles to yet another generation.

This article about the butter cookies recipe, is the perfect way to gain the knowledge that you need to bake the best cookies in the world.

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