For instance, April has Easter (Usually), September has my Birthday, December has Christmas (Or for you politically correct crazies, The Winter Holiday), and June....ok there's nothing good about June...But you get the idea!
For March I love St. Patricks Day! Even though I am not Irish, I still love dressing up in green and doing anything that has to do with the color green! Like, wearing green socks or stabbing people with green thumb tacks! Just kidding! But seriously...
This year I decided to make green cookies for this joyous holiday!
Now, if you know me, you know that I absolutely SUCK at making cookies from scratch, my choc-chip cookies melt in the oven and get all crunchy and gross. Last Halloween I managed to not only fail at making the dough, kneading it AND putting it in the oven, the icing I made was so nasty my dog wouldn't eat it x(.
So, I can honestly say that I have NO future WHAT-SO-EVER in cookie baking. Until now!
Despite my brain screaming at me not to attempt to make another batch of cookies from Hell, I proceeded anyway, because I mean hey, third times the charm right?
So, I pulled out my mother's lovely cookbook (Calf Fries to Caviar, great book!) And found their sugar cookie recipe.
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Cream Together, 1 cup of sugar (I added a bit more!) and 1 stick of butter.
Then you add in:
2 eggs
2 Tbsp of milk
3 Tsp of Backing Powder
2 Tsp of vanilla
After stirring that up, you put in 2 cups of flour (I used close to 3, but put in 2 and just add gradually as you need it).
Then you are going to want to chill the dough for 10minutes-ish and preheat your oven to 352F.
Next you are going to grease your cooking pan and put the dough on it.
(Now, I just made drop cookies, because I was running low on time and just needed to get them in the oven fast. This turned them into a weird biscuit/pancake texture, THEY WERE STILL AMAZING. Just different. You can, however, roll the dough and cut them out into nifty shapes for whatever occasion you have. I just didn't have time.)
You bake the cookies for about 5 to 10 minutes.
Then you take them out and let them cool.
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Ta'da! You just made cookies!
The next thing I did was make my nifty icing! (If you do the drop cookie idea, this is a very essential step, the cookies tend to be a bit dry and the icing helps out a lot!)
What I did was, I mixed 2 cups of powdered sugar with 2 tsp of melted butter and 4 Tbsp of Orange juice.
This wasn't quite enough, so i doubled the recipe!
And in honor of St. Patrick's Day, I died the icing GREEN!!!
My whole family loved them and they want me to make them again (VERY SOON)!!! Maybe I have a thing for this cookie business after all!
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