Celebration Food

This little egg hunter did a great job finding eggs and eating cookies!  She is enjoying our snow flurries right now!  The sugar cookies were favorites for the little children as they each took a bunny, a chick and then possibly a duck.  These cookies talked to each other as well (with the help of the owner of course).  Great triggers of nostalgia for the grown ups, the cookies prompted several remembrances of grandmothers and tips such as “roll out the dough with sugar not flour and they are really crispy.”

Here is the recipe for the cookies as I made them at Easter and Christmas:

• 2 sticks butter, softened
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups AP flour
• 1/2 tsp salt

Combine flour and salt.  Cream butter with sugar then beat in egg and extracts.  Add flour only until combined.  On plastic sheets, form two rounds of dough and chill for 1 hour.  Heat oven to 350.  Roll out at least 1/4 inch thick on floured board, and use cookie cutters to cut shapes. If preferred, brush with beaten egg white and sprinkle with sugars.  Place on parchment lined cookie sheet and bake at least 8 minutes or until lightly brown around the edges.

When cool, frost with royal icing in decorative way if the sugars were not used.

Eating these cookies may not make you as cute as my little friend above!