My new favorate cookie Oatmeal and Cream

We Love Sugar Cookies

What do you do when you loose the cookie bake off?

Make cake...

The Big cookie bake off and the winners are . . .

We all think our sugar cookie recipe is the best. We decided to have a bake off. But we ended up with a tie between Brandi and Jody.

Valentines Sugar Cookies

This is my first time using Chocolate transfer paper. It was fun to use next time I will have to notice which way my pattern is running . Humm now what to do with all these cookies... I guess I will take them to work. Poor people at work are always having to eat my experiments

Gingerbread Cookies

1 C shortening
1 c sugar
1 egg
1 c molasses
2 tbs vinegar
5 C of flour
1 1/2 teaspoons soda
1 T. ginger
1 T Cinnamon
1 tsp cloves
1 Tbs vanilla
Cream sugar, shortening and eggs molasses's, granulated adding remaining ingredients the set in refrigerator roll out and cut about 1/2 inch thick. Bake 375 about 10 min or 12 min Good with icing

Sugar Cookie

This is a soft cake like recipe. I find that you really need something like sour cream, cream cheese or butter milk to make a soft sugar cookie.

Sugar Cookie
4 eggs
3 c sugar
1 c sour cream
1/2 c butter
7 c flour
1 t backing soda
6 t backing powder
2 t vanilla
pinch of salt
mix sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Mix in rest of ingredient's. Sit dough out for an hour. Roll out 1/4 inch on floured surface with a rolling pin. Cut in desired shapes, Bake 375 for 8 min. If the cookie is really small I adjust lower the time baked.

I don't always use this icing but its a good icing if you have to travel with the cookies

Traditionally Meringue Powder Royal Icing is made with egg whites. But I think this is a safer way since the egg whites are uncooked.

1/4 c meringue powder
1/2 c cold water
1 pound powdered sugar