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| Panta and Nora rolling out the dough |
Since caramel apples took so long, we had to put off our pumpkin carving until the following week. To this event we added cookie baking, mostly because I have a ridiculous amount of Halloween themed cookie cutters, but also because, seriously, who doesn't like cookies? Also, baking is much more fun if you have an industrial-style dishwasher at your disposal (like Nora and Lars do in their castle). The cookies are the same recipe I always use, the one so lovingly written out by my grandmother on an old, yellowed, flour-covered note card, and copied by my mother onto a slightly less yellow and flower-covered note card. These cookies are special. It's just not Halloween without some pumpkin cookies somewhere. I even made them
last year for our Thanksgiving feast. This year we had slightly less vibrant food coloring, and slightly more warped looking America cookies, but we had fun. And this time we actually got around to carving the pumpkins.
Here is the tried-and-true sugar cookie recipe, for those who are interested.
Sugar Cookies:
2 3/4 c flour
2 3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/2 c shortening
1 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs. Add vanilla. Sift and add dry ingredients. Chill 10 minutes. Roll and cut. Bake at 400(F) 10-12 minutes.
Frosting:
2 tbsp butter
1 1/2 c confectioners sugar
Cream above. Add:
2 tbsp milk
1/4 tsp vanilla
Beat until fluffy
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| Panta, Nora and Lars |
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| Mary and Me |
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| Note the upside down vampire bat |
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| Frankenstein cookies |
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| Cookies that were supposed to be shaped like America, but ended up looking more like fish so we decorated them accordingly |
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| Fish/America cookie |
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| Panta (Kansas) loves Canada |
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| Bat/bowtie |
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| Pumpkins! |
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| Guts |
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| Panta = 5 year old when it comes to pumpkin guts |
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| Nora, taking out some aggression on that pumpkin! |
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| Mary |
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| Finished products |
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