This recipe comes from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything (except venison), which someone gave to my father as a gift at some point because they clearly never met him.
Refrigerator (Rolled) Cookies
makes at least 3 dozen1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
3 cups all-purpose flour
pinch salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbs. milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1. Use an electric mixer (SIKE) to cream the butter and sugar together until light; beat in the egg.
2. Combine the flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Mix the dry ingredients into the butter sugar mixture, adding a little milk at a time as necessary. Stir in the vanilla.
3. Shape the dough into a disk and refridgerate for at least two hours (or at least two episodes of Arrested Development).
4. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cut the dough disk in half... blah blah blah, roll it out, cut out some shapes and bake for 6-10 minutes....
Step one: Soften your frozen butter in the microwave. On a plate. So it gets EVERYWHERE.
Kate loves to use the pretend electric mixer!
Don't have a rolling pin? WHO CARES! Just wrap something in seran wrap...
Look at all those turkey and reindeer and dinosaurs and bells, all living together happily just like God wants.
THESE COOKIES WERE SO GREAT I MADE A GIF!
Except for the ones we had to throw away because they got burnt, but that's okay, you know what they say... |
| Kate can never sleep the night before motherboy... see how excited she looks! |
OMG Katherine! you are such a cancer!
ReplyDeleteand so fabulous!