The Making of the Cookies!

Cookie making day went well.  The kitchen survived a minor case of flour tossing along with fingers driving through flour dusted counters. It is amazing fun to play with flour on the counter! Go figure! I had forgotten all the really neat designs and games one can play while tracing your fingers in the flour.
The recipe we used for our cookie horses was a basic Sugar Cookie recipe that Gabriel's Mom used when she was young. In fact it still has all of her notes around the edges for her adaptations.
Recipe: 2/3 cup butter, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 teas. vanilla, 1 egg, 4 teas. milk, 2 C. flour, 1 1/2 teas. baking powder and 1/4 teas. salt.
Thats it folks, mix it all together, cool it for one hour and roll em, and pat em and bake em at 375 for 6 minutes!

Here are all our ingredients that Gabriel used and played with. ;)  

Gabriel's job was to mix the wet ingredients with the dry. He is so serious about his mixing skills. I think the tongue things helps in balancing the spoon hand.
While watching him mix, I realized that the bowl he was mixing with was my Grandmothers bowl from the early 40's.  Now he is using it!  His Great-Great Grandmother's mixing bowl. It is from a company that she collected kitchen ware from, it is called Jewel Tea. She would be proud.

Putting the egg in....this was so exciting to him.  He was careful in the pouring of it as the egg has a  jiggly movement to it and when it finally "plopped" in he made a little giggle. While he stirred the egg in he reminded me that this was a raw egg and that we cannot eat it. Yep, his Mama and Baba have taught him well.

OH, my gosh, that is also his Great, Great Grandmother's rolling pin. A lot of history going on here folks! As you can tell he has to bring his toys up to watch him.

Explaining to me how it is done.                                                           OK, I realize that our horse cookie cutter is not your typical cookie cutter and that it came out of his Play-Doh kit but it was the only horse cutter that we could find. Yes, we did wash the Play-Doh out before hand.

Pressing it down "just right". He told me "Nana, you have to push softly".  I did.

Ready to go in the oven.

We did it!!!!

Time to eat em.