Once the exams, papers, projects, and overall stress was over and Eileen and I had some time to finally just…live and enjoy the holiday season we made a little list of reasonable things that we would want to do for our week off from school. I was super excited and it felt good to only have work, itself. It was something like… “real life” minus the frugal grad school lifestyle (haha)
On this night we decided to make chocolate chip sugar cookies! We tend to improvise a lot with choc chips and would virtually add them to well, anything. We also used food coloring added to Betty Crocker cream cheese frosting and SPRINKLES! to decorate 🙂
what’s needed: 1.75 c. all purpose flour // 1 tsp baking soda // 0.5 tsp baking powder // 1 c. butter (softened) // 1.5 c. granulated sugar // 1 egg // 1 tsp vanilla extract // whatever you would like to decorate // *we also added some water (immeasurable) to make the dough easier to work with and mixed
directions: 1// preheat oven to 375 degrees F. 2// prepare the cookie sheet. 3// In a small bowl: stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. 4// In a large bowl: mix together butter and sugar until smooth. 5// beat in the egg and vanilla into the large bowl mixture. ADD CHOC CHIPS! 6// Gradually fold in dry ingredients into the large bowl. mix. 7// Add water, if needed to form a mixture that is dough-like. 8// roll rounded balls of dough (we flattened ours a bit) and space apart on cookie sheet 9// bake 10 min in oven. 10// cool. 11//decorate!
happy baking, friends! and enjoy your great company this holiday season!
missananda 