Recipes

Confetti Cookies  (These are the cookies Ella just made this week.)

4 tablespoons butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon of honey
1 teaspoon of vanilla
2 teaspoons of milk
3/4 cup and 1 tablespoon flour
3 tablespoons cornstarch
2 greased cookie sheets
small cookie cutters
For the icing:
1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons warm water
red food coloring

Preheat oven to 350~.


1.  Put the butter and sugar into a large bowl.  Beat them until they look creamy, then add the egg yolk and beat it in.

2.  Stir in the honey, vanilla, and milk.  Sift the flour and cornstarch into the bowl, then start to mix everything with a spoon.

3.  Then, use your hands to squeeze the mixture until you make a ball of dough.  If the mixture is a little dry, add a drop of milk.

4.  Sprinkle a work surface with flour, then roll out the dough until it is about 1/4 inch think.  Use the cutters to cut out shapes.

5.  Put the shapes onto the baking trays.  Then squeeze the scraps into a ball, roll them out again and cut out more shapes.

6.  Bake the shapes for six to eight minutes, then carefully lift them out of the oven.  Leave them to cool on the baking trays.

7.  To make icing, sift the powdered sugar into a bowl and mix in the water.  Spoon half of the icing into another bowl.

8.  Cover one bowl with plastic food wrap to keep it from drying out.  Then, mix a drop of food coloring into the other bowl.

9.  Spread half of the cookies with white icing.  Then, spread the others with pink icing and leave the icing to set.


Ninjabread Cookies

Sift into a bowl and mix:
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice

Beat together in another bowl:
1 egg
2/3 cup dark molasses
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
6 tablespoons softened butter


Add dry ingredients slowly to wet mixture until well blended.  Cover and refrigerate for one hour.  Preheat oven to 350~.  Sift flour onto your board and rolling pin as you work to keep the dough from sticking.  Roll out in portions of dough 1/4 inch thick.  Cut out your gingerbread men with a floured cookie cutter.  Place one inch apart on a greased cookie sheet.  Bake 8 minutes, or until slightly firm to touch.  Cool on wire rack.  Decorate with frosting, raisins, and candies to create your own Ninjabread cookies.