yes, Zoe still mirror the letters some times, and don't maintain her nail polish...
Zoe had a special celebration in her English class today; they finished the ABC’s. Her task my task was to bring 20 cookies to class. Since this was a late notice, and I had no cookies in my pantry, we had a choice: either go grocery shopping and get a box of cookies, or bake some ourselves. I prefer anything over grocery shopping (even doing the laundry), and the girls loved the idea of baking. Keeping with the theme of the celebration Zoe suggested making little flags with the letters, which I thought was a great idea. Ori was exited about this as well, making her own pretend writing flags.
MAKING THE FLAGS
You will need:
- Drawing tools, the girls used Fine point sharpies and a silver sharpie. The fine point was perfect for the scale.
- Small white stickers
- Toothpicks
- Draw the letters one on each sticker
- Peel the sticker and place it on the top of the tooth pick
- Cover with another sticker from the back keeping the toothpick in the middle.
- Insert the toothpick into the cookies while they are still hot (before they harden)
THE COOKIES
The dough for these cookies is my grandmother’s recipe. It is the most versatile recipe I have ever used. You can fill the dough with almost anything such as: Turkish delight, comfiture, Nutella, apples, ground beef, spinach and cheese etc. You may use it as cookie dough or as elongated pie or cake.
You will need:
- 200 grams of butter, room temperature (1 3/4 sticks of butter)
- 8 oz of sour cream, or plan yogurt
- 2 ½ cups of self rising flour
- Nuttela (chocolate spread) or any other filling of your choice.
- (yes, that’s it)
- Knead the butter, sour cream and flour, add more flour if the dough is a little sticky.
- Let sit in the fridge for at least ½ an hour
- Divide the dough into 3
- Roll each part into a rectangle
- Spread a thin layer of Nutella throughout the surface of the dough
- Roll into a long snake
- Cut thin slices of about ¼”
- Bake in 350° for about 15 minutes
You may freeze the snake prior to cutting; this will help cut the cookies real thin.
Bake the snake and cut after baking. This works better if you use chunkier filling as oppose to a spread.
When I picked Zoe up, the tray of cookies was empty (as expected), she told me that everyone loved the cookies and the little flags, and that she was very happy that we chose to bake verses buying. I thought so too.
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tali