Post-Thanksgiving Baking of Awesome
Nov. 25th, 2011 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potato_headI BAKED COOKIES
BET YOU GUYS CAREEE
First, snickerdoodles! I also did some rolled in just sugar, no cinnamon. THEY ARE SUPER GOOD. I highly recommend whether you like cinnamon or not to try them like that.
This is the first batch I did, and I...forgot to put it on convection bake oAo so they didn't bake evenly. I wish I had gotten a photo of the second two trays, which came out soooo beautifully. These were tasty too, though.
I think these are going to be my jarred recipe for gifts this winter. Dad suggested it, and it would work out very well since all the dry ingredients go in at once (besides the sugar), unlike other recipes. I'm going to try a few modifications to make it easier - add the cinnamon to the recipe (cinnamon-in; I've had them like this and they are quite good, I just have to find the right amount of cinnamon) and maybe replace the shortening with another half cup of butter? Would that make a big difference?
And then, sugar cookies with icing!
I had only one or two really Thanksgiving-y cookie cutters (turkey, pumpkin) so I tossed in some other generic ones (round, flower) and tried some larger ones with little cutout centers, for fun.
I love these tiny cookie cutters, they are SO FUCKING CUTE.
I messed around with the icing recipe a lot. I made it really wet so as to dip the cookies in it rather than spread it on, as the original recipe seems to be...made for...IDK the original recipe is REALLY thick. I also sprinkled sugar ALL THE FUCK OVER EVERYTHING. Also some cinnamon sugar.
Oh, and of course I used food coloring to achieve those colors in both the cookies and the icing. For the cookies I used the drop instructions for a cake mix. For the icing I just kind of estimated about five drops.
BET YOU GUYS CAREEE
First, snickerdoodles! I also did some rolled in just sugar, no cinnamon. THEY ARE SUPER GOOD. I highly recommend whether you like cinnamon or not to try them like that.
This is the first batch I did, and I...forgot to put it on convection bake oAo so they didn't bake evenly. I wish I had gotten a photo of the second two trays, which came out soooo beautifully. These were tasty too, though.
I think these are going to be my jarred recipe for gifts this winter. Dad suggested it, and it would work out very well since all the dry ingredients go in at once (besides the sugar), unlike other recipes. I'm going to try a few modifications to make it easier - add the cinnamon to the recipe (cinnamon-in; I've had them like this and they are quite good, I just have to find the right amount of cinnamon) and maybe replace the shortening with another half cup of butter? Would that make a big difference?
And then, sugar cookies with icing!
I had only one or two really Thanksgiving-y cookie cutters (turkey, pumpkin) so I tossed in some other generic ones (round, flower) and tried some larger ones with little cutout centers, for fun.
I love these tiny cookie cutters, they are SO FUCKING CUTE.
I messed around with the icing recipe a lot. I made it really wet so as to dip the cookies in it rather than spread it on, as the original recipe seems to be...made for...IDK the original recipe is REALLY thick. I also sprinkled sugar ALL THE FUCK OVER EVERYTHING. Also some cinnamon sugar.
Oh, and of course I used food coloring to achieve those colors in both the cookies and the icing. For the cookies I used the drop instructions for a cake mix. For the icing I just kind of estimated about five drops.
