Saturday, December 24, 2011
Happy Holidays!
We are super busy here at the lakehouse, baking.. baking.. and more baking! We are in the midst of celebrating Chanukah and now Christmas is here!
Santa will be here soon and the kids will want to leave him a little snack for when he arrives. Here is a fantastic recipe that the kids can prep on their own! It’s fast, and easy, and clean-up is a breeze!
Galaxy Cookies
Makes 20 cookies
- ½ cup Butter, softened
- ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Vanilla
- Food Coloring, if desired
- 1 ½ cups Flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dates, nuts, maraschino cherries, whoppers, mini snickers, milky way, 3musketeer sliced in to quarters.
Directions:
1. In a small bowl, with a fork, combine butter, sugar, vanilla and food coloring.
2. Work in the flour and salt until dough holds together. Form it into a big ball with your hands! Yay!
3. Mold dough by tablespoonfuls around dates, nuts or pieces of candy.
4. Place cookies about 1-inch apart on ungreased baking sheet.
5. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until set but not brown.
6. Cool; dip tops of cookies into Icing.
If desired, decorate with coconut, nuts, colored sugars and candies.
Icing:
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 2 ½ tablespoons half-and-half (or 1 ½ tablespoon milk)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Food coloring
1. Mix sugar, half-and-half and vanilla until smooth.
2. Separate small portions of icing into small bowls, then tint each portion with different food colors.
Tip: For Chocolate icing, increase half-and-half to 3 tablespoons or milk to 2 tablespoons and stir in 1 ounce melted unsweetened chocolate (cool).
Childhood Memories:
"When I was about 10 years old, my baby sis, Stephanie wanted to make cookies. She poured through our mother’s cookbooks until she found the perfect recipe, Galaxy Cookies! Momma employed all of us kids to help Steph make the cookies. The cookies were beautiful!! We tinted the dough, each cookie dipped in a different color icing, and we sprinkled each creation into brightly colored sugars. All was perfect, each cookie a picture of perfection. Until we took the first bite…
It was then that we realized that our big sis had inadvertently read the ingredients wrong. Instead of adding ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar, we added that much salt to the recipe. Mikey and I laughed, Stephanie was devastated, and our big sis was embarrassed. In the end we helped our baby sissy turn her tears into laughter.
Today, we think back on memories such as this one, and smile. It feels so good to have brothers and sisters who love each other enough to lift you up when things go wrong."
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