First we decided to bake what we thought would be the hardest cookies ever, turned out to be the easiest. We made these Candy Cane Blossom cookies. As we followed the recipe, we decided to use green food coloring to make the cookies green for Christmas. The recipe does say you can use the food coloring to make colored sugar, but that would require work the day before. Plus in my opinion, I think the cookies tasted amazing without the colored sugar on top. To mak things even more funny, I couldn't find the candy cane flavored hershey kisses, so I just bought a big bag of regular kisses. Hey it all worked out.
Next we made Sugar Cookies. If you never made these before, then you are missing out on a lot of fun. These are really easy to make. Plus they don't take that long to bake. With all the different cookie cutters, it makes the cookies look even better. I specifically bought Christmas cookie cutters at Dollar Tree.
While the sugar cookies were cooling down, Abby and I went upstairs into my room and put the lights on my Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. She made my tree look amazing.
Once the cookies were cool, we put vanilla and chocolate frosting on them. Made them look even yummier then they were before. Once they were frosted, I placed the cookies in the fridge for a good thirty minutes. That way the frosting would harden and make it less messy to eat.
All in all I can say it was a great day. Thankful God gave me Abby in my life. She's so much fun to bake with.
RECIPES
Candy Cane Blossom Cookies
Ingredients
1 bag of Hershey kisses (Regular of Candy Cane flavored)
1/2 cup of better, softened
1 cup of granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons of Vanilla extract
1 egg
2 cups of all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoons of baking soda
2 tablespoons of milk (May need to add more)
Red or Green food coloring
Parchment Paper
- Preheat oven to 350° Get two trays and place one sheet of parchment paper onto the trays.
- In a large bowl mix together butter, sugar, vanilla, milk and a egg until well blended. In a seprate bowl add flour, baking soda and salt. Slowly combind the mixture with flour, baking soda and salt with the first mixture.
- Add red on green food coloring to the bowl with the dough Mix well until the dough is the color you chose.
- Using your hands, roll dough into one inch balls. Place balls on trays,
- Place trays in the oven for ten minutes.
- While the cookies are cooking, unwrap the Hershey Kisses into a bowl.
- When cookies are done in the over, place the hershey kisses on top of the hot cookies. Let cookies cool down afterwards.
- Place cookies in the fridge for twenty minutes to let the cookies harden a bit. (Tastes better)