28 November 2009
Fall Treats, Week 3
This time, we made owl cookies. These were really simple, and Will had tons of fun putting it all together.
Start with one pack of refrigerated sugar cookie dough. Add cocoa to 2/3 of it. Roll out the cocoa dough. Roll the sugar cookie dough into a tube and wrap with the cocoa dough. Refrigerate. Slice and put two cookies together to form eyes.
Add a cashew in the middle for the beak.
After the cookies are baked and cool, add drops of icing and stick M&M's in them for eyes. You could add eyelashes, but that proved a little beyond the skills of a toddler, so we left them.
Will had a blast making these (and licking the icing, eating the M&M's, which he calls "yummyums," etc.)
Start with one pack of refrigerated sugar cookie dough. Add cocoa to 2/3 of it. Roll out the cocoa dough. Roll the sugar cookie dough into a tube and wrap with the cocoa dough. Refrigerate. Slice and put two cookies together to form eyes.
Add a cashew in the middle for the beak.
After the cookies are baked and cool, add drops of icing and stick M&M's in them for eyes. You could add eyelashes, but that proved a little beyond the skills of a toddler, so we left them.
Will had a blast making these (and licking the icing, eating the M&M's, which he calls "yummyums," etc.)
Fall Treats, Week 2
Sorry - I got bogged down in school stuff/pregnancy health concerns, and I haven't posted in a while.
Will and I continued our fall treats tradition the next couple of weeks. First up was a peanut butter bar that looked amazing but was so sweet and rich that we couldn't eat them. Rolf ended up taking them to work. They were still fun to make, though.
The middle was essentially a rice krispie treat batter without the rice krispies - marshmallows, butter, and...
...sweetened condensed milk (no wonder they were too sweet!).
Mommy pulled her hair back, so naturally, Will had to do likewise.
The finished product. It's a layer of peanut butter cookie, filled with a marshmallow/condensed milk/butter/peanut butter layer, and topped with more peanuts. Dang. Not one we'll try again, although they tasted pretty good.
Will and I continued our fall treats tradition the next couple of weeks. First up was a peanut butter bar that looked amazing but was so sweet and rich that we couldn't eat them. Rolf ended up taking them to work. They were still fun to make, though.
The middle was essentially a rice krispie treat batter without the rice krispies - marshmallows, butter, and...
...sweetened condensed milk (no wonder they were too sweet!).
Mommy pulled her hair back, so naturally, Will had to do likewise.
The finished product. It's a layer of peanut butter cookie, filled with a marshmallow/condensed milk/butter/peanut butter layer, and topped with more peanuts. Dang. Not one we'll try again, although they tasted pretty good.
02 November 2009
Fall Treats, Week 1
I fully intended to work some sort of Fall/Halloween-themed craft with William each weekend leading up to the 31st. Life and other things got in the way, so we didn't really get anything done.
I have resolved the weekends between now and Christmas will be different, however. I have downloaded several fun recipes, and my little baker and I will be posting something each week that we have worked on together. I really want to make sure we get in as much one-on-one time as we can before he has to share Mommy and Daddy with a little sibling.
Our first fall treat was an interesting little cookie the authors of the recipe call "Aut-yum Leaves." It's very semi-homemade, which is a good idea when you're baking with an impatient toddler.
I didn't get any pictures of cutting out the pie crust. We were working so hard at maximizing the pre-made rounds that we forgot.
After we cut the leaf shapes out, Will added a mixture of peanut butter and chocolate chips to the middle of each.
He then brushed the edges of each one with egg wash. I pressed the top layer of leaves on, and Will gave them each a final bath of egg wash.
The recipe called for raw sugar. We were out, so we used colored orange decorator's sugar instead. It gave them a bit of fall flair.
When the cookies were nice and brown, we took them out of the oven and let them cool.
A close-up of Will's handiwork.
Contrary to the look on his face, he loved them! He got home from school today and immediately asked for one.
These are pretty good little cookies. They taste like little mini-pies. I might try them again someday with a bigger cutout shape and a fruity pie filling or something similar.
Tune in again next week for another adventure in the kitchen with my li'l' chef.
I have resolved the weekends between now and Christmas will be different, however. I have downloaded several fun recipes, and my little baker and I will be posting something each week that we have worked on together. I really want to make sure we get in as much one-on-one time as we can before he has to share Mommy and Daddy with a little sibling.
Our first fall treat was an interesting little cookie the authors of the recipe call "Aut-yum Leaves." It's very semi-homemade, which is a good idea when you're baking with an impatient toddler.
I didn't get any pictures of cutting out the pie crust. We were working so hard at maximizing the pre-made rounds that we forgot.
After we cut the leaf shapes out, Will added a mixture of peanut butter and chocolate chips to the middle of each.
He then brushed the edges of each one with egg wash. I pressed the top layer of leaves on, and Will gave them each a final bath of egg wash.
The recipe called for raw sugar. We were out, so we used colored orange decorator's sugar instead. It gave them a bit of fall flair.
When the cookies were nice and brown, we took them out of the oven and let them cool.
A close-up of Will's handiwork.
Contrary to the look on his face, he loved them! He got home from school today and immediately asked for one.
These are pretty good little cookies. They taste like little mini-pies. I might try them again someday with a bigger cutout shape and a fruity pie filling or something similar.
Tune in again next week for another adventure in the kitchen with my li'l' chef.
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