I know you've been crazy busy. What have you been up to? I'd love to hear how you're celebrating your Holidays or not.
So I decided that this year, due to the State of the Economy in my apartment, that I would bake! Bake! So I gathered my wits and headed into the kitchen. I pulled the Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer out (which really there is no pulling out, it's so heavy it kind of lives where it lives LOL), dusted it off and proceeded to lose my mind! And this was premeditated mind losing!
2/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup butter
2 tspns vanilla extract (I've substituted this with other flavors of extract and they all worked.
1 1/2 cups white sugar
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tspns baking powder
1 tspn salt
Preheat the oven to 350. Cream the shortening, butter and sugar together. stir in eggs and vanilla. Combine all of the dry ingredients and mix into the creamed ingredients. Mix until dough is formed. That easy. It's kinda shortbready :-)
The fun part comes with the additions. I separated the dough into batches. Since it made enough to feed a small army. In the first batch I added a cap full of peppermint extract and white chocolate chips! Topped them off with Peppermint Sprinkles. Very cooling bite. YUMMMMY!
These make great gifts. They show you care...and you cook! Nothing like Aunt NooNoos fruit cake.
Tomorrow I'm going to venture even further into Cookie Land. I love creating my own recipes and am thinking I can come up with something yummy or deadly LOL.
A Legend in My Living Room! :-) LOL LOL so now that that part of the night is over it's on to complete my last Youtube video of the year LOL. Which I plan to post tomorrow. Quick last minute gifts that are a joy to make and give! Oh... there's a big mess in the kitchen LOL. Dang!
:-) And I'm not done. Well done for tonight, more cookies tomorrow.
Ok so here's a little secret, if it's too close to gift giving time and you can't squeeze the recipe build in, you can probably buy those packages of already mixed sugar cookie dough and add your own goodies to it.
Forgot to mention that I did take a break today LOL. I drove this beautiful road. Mesmerized by the beautiful sky. This actually inspired me to get home and get those cookies done!

Big Holiday Hugs to you!