Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Short Bread Jumpin' Jive Turkey!



This Idea Came From: Gramma Mer Mer is in town for Thanksgiving and Emma has been waiting all week to make the Nick Jr. Turkey Hand Cookies.http://www.nickjr.com/recipes/hand-turkey-frosted-cookies.jhtml

Our Experience: Okay my sweet and persistent child... Today is the day we make the Hand Turkey Cookies! I grabbed a piece of paper and traced Emma's hands and we cut them out- this was to be our template. The Kitchen Aid was put to use today! Emma can toss in each ingredient and count how many cups or teaspoons we dump in... This is exciting stuff for her! Mixed dough- flattened and traced hand template with a skewer. Sidebar:We have a love for Short Bread Cookies in this house... except for me. I am happy to have them around because I will not be tempted in the least to sneak them.  Everybody is a winner with Shortbread cookies- Emma gets to do her craft, daddy get a jar full of his favorites, Gramma loves them too.. and I do not get sabotaged. I used the Argo recipe on the back of a box I cut out a long time ago.. and it seems to be a huge hit. http://www.argostarch.com/recipe_details.asp?id=1261 I found the recipe online. So- Shortbread is a little difficult for little hands to work with- but we made it through fine. She had to be very gentle and patience. Next: I was prepared to mix all of my own frostings but... nahhhh. I bought a little pint of white butter cream and 4 tubes of colored frostings to apply to the top of the cookies.  I chose Red, Yellow, Blue.. and Black... Who wants to make Black frosting, ever?  Not me... so I figured with the primaries and the black we would be covered from Thanksgiving to Next Valentines Day for Cook Frosting. We made a pallet of colors on a plate and used wood skewers to paint the icing onto the cookie. Maybe we will try another way next time... not as vibrant as I had hoped.. but good for eating. It was a cute little project to squeeze in between Thanksgiving cooking.

The Lesson: Kids need to part of the kitchen too when the holidays come around.  They feel left out or in the way... The best thing to do is put them to work doing an easy part of prep work.. or create a diversion altogether... Turkey Cookies! Happy Thanksgiving all.

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