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.

Cookies for Monday!

Gabriel is expecting to be making cookies tomorrow. I think I have all the ingredients he needs. Lots of paper towels for me and the kitchen. I can't wait for him to get here. Yup, I have all the goods for the making of cookies. Target had some of the best cooking supplies, lots of smaller mixing spoons just right for a 3 year olds hands. I love their cooking dept. and  I can't forget to get the cookie cutters.
OK, we are set to cook!!!

Come walk with us!

Now that I have taken on the awesome role as Gabriel's home school teacher I am finding myself discovering all kinds of fun and games in education. We have so much fun dancing with our letters in the morning and counting with our "space ship" numbers in the afternoon. Then there is reading at Barnes and Noble with Jennifer on Weds. and field trips on other days. And cooking, can't forget cooking. Gabriel is excellent at stirring. Sure stuff gets stirred out of the bowl at times, but hey, what happens in the kitchen stays in the kitchen...right?!
This is just too much fun.
Come walk with us as we travel down this road. It will be an adventure of discoveries and laughter.
Hugs, Nana Pat