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Day Ten- Suzanne’s Table Twelve Days of Cookies: Snickerdoodles

20 Tuesday Dec 2016

Posted by kristiwidgery in Home Cook

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baking with kids, cinnamon sugar, kid friendly recipe, snickerdoodles

Today I am continuing the theme of baking with kids as a fun activity over winter break or anytime.  My niece Ashley loves to bake.  She is very creative in the kitchen, she and her sister, Haley,  have created their own version of “Chopped” at home.  Whenever Ashley comes over to visit she always asks me if we can bake something.  Recently we were having a conversation about pie and she told me how she had never made one, but wanted to learn.  I told her that Auntie Kristi loves making pies and I would teach her how.

I invited her over on a Saturday afternoon to play in the kitchen.  I also managed to turn the baking lesson into a math lesson as well, giving her only the 1/4 measuring cup, I asked questions such as “if you need 1 1/2 cups of sugar, how many 1/4 cups is that?”  Knowing we had lots of time I planned for her to make a pie and a cookie. Since I am on a cookie theme until the end of the week, today’s post is about the cookies she made, Snickerdoodles to be exact.  However, it should be mentioned, that her first attempt at making a pie was a great success.

Like Kelly, Ashley is also 10 and very comfortable in the kitchen.  I showed her choices of what we could bake and once we knew what we were making I had her read the recipe to make sure she understood each step.  Ashley did everything, measured her flour out level and even, rolled the cookie balls, placed them on the sheet evenly, every step she knew what her mission was and she was flawless. Ashley’s cookies were amazing, they turned out perfectly.

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Snickerdoodles

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

1/ cup salted butter

1/2 cup shortening

1 1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

For rolling cookies before baking:

3 tbsp granulated sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

In a large bowl, combine the butter, shortening, sugar, and eggs.  Thoroughly mix with electric mixer on medium speed until well combined, the mixture should have a creamy texture.  Sift together the flour, cream of tarter, baking soda and salt, add this into your wet mixture.  Next, in a small bowl combine the rolling sugar and cinnamon together.  Shape the dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, about 1 tbsp per ball, and roll each one the cinnamon-sugar mixture.  Arrange on ungreased cookie sheets about 2 inches apart and bake for 8-1o minutes.  Edges should be set and the center still soft. Transfer to wire racks to cool. Makes about 4 dozen.

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Day Nine- Suzanne’s Table Twelve Days of Cookies: Edible Holiday Wreaths

19 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by kristiwidgery in Cooking, Home Cook

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Christmas cookies, cooking with kids, corn flakes, kid friendly recipe, marshmellow

When my husband Brian and I got married, I became step-mom to Kelly.  Brian and Kelly like to go fishing and hiking together, two activities I prefer to skip out on, so over the years Kelly and I have found our own common interests. Kelly lives with her mother most of the time, but when she spends time with us I like to have fun projects for us to do, many of them involve spending time in the kitchen. Kelly just turned 10, but she has been helping me in the kitchen since she was 5. We started with small tasks, but this past summer she successfully made quite a few recipes with little help from me.  She is great at chopping vegetables, with even more precision at making even cuts then mine tend to be.

Kelly arrived last night to spend winter break with us. She and I started talking about cookies and she immediately wanted to go to the kitchen and start creating. I chose a simple recipe that she could do on her own with my supervision.

This recipe is very similar to making a rice krispie treat, with a holiday twist.  It is easy to put together and last night Kelly made our wreaths from start to finish.  All I did was read the steps to her and made sure she was careful around the stove. If you are looking for a fun project with your kids over winter break, this one is fun.

 

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Edible Wreaths

1/2 cup butter

1 1/2 tsp green food coloring

4 cups of cornflakes

40 large marshmallows

3 drops of mint extract (optional)

3 tbsp cinnamon red hot candies

Before you start cooking, line counter top with wax paper and spray with non-stick cooking spray.

 

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I had Kelly pre-measure everything she would need to make her wreaths

 

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Using a large sauce pan,  begin to melt butter over low heat when melted add in marshmallows,  stir constantly until marshmallows are completely melted.  Remove from heat and add in the mint extract (optional) food coloring and cornflakes.  Stir until thoroughly mixed.  Butter a small spoon and drop small mounds of cornflake mixture on waxed paper.  Lightly butter fingers and form cornflake mounds into wreaths with holes in the center.  Decorate with cinnamon candies.

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