Snowflake Cookies

Kids love baking cookies - and eating them. They might not leave you any!

This is a simplified recipe, easy for children to make, but they look wonderful! The technique of making drop cookies is simple: You drop teaspoonfuls of cookie mixture onto non-stick baking paper, and leave them to spread out into lovely round shaped cookies as they bake.Later, you can ice them with snowflake shapes.

You'll need:

For the cookies:

1 cup (250ml) of brown sugar
1 cup of white sugar
225g of margarine or soft butter
1 tsp of vanilla essence
2 eggs
2 cups of flour
1 tsp of baking soda
1/2 tsp of salt

For the icing:

2 cups of icing sugar.
Squeeze one lemon - use enough juice to mix.

How to make these easy drop cookies:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 deg C.
2. Beat butter, white sugar, and brown sugar together until the mixture is fluffy, and looks pale.
3. Add the eggs and vanilla.
4. Stir in the flour and baking soda.
5. Mix well.
6. Put in teaspoon-sized blobs onto a baking sheet covered in non-stick baking paper.

Baking your Cookies

Eat a few while they're warm. Delicious!

Icing Your Snowflake Cookies

If you have any left once they're cool, mix the icing sugar with a little lemon juice gradually, until it's soft enough to squeeze out of the piping bag, but still keeps its shape.

Put icing into a piping bag (use a medium nozzle), and ice a snowflake shape onto each biscuit. Leave to set. I've deliberately kept the design simple so that kids can make these, but older kids may want to use a finer nozzle and make more detailed snowflake patterns.

            

Try making different snowflake patterns with the icing. After all, every snowflake is different. Or add edible silver balls to decorate your biscuits. Large cookies are wonderful, but tiny ones look really cute (They cook slightly faster, so be careful). You could try making them as Santa Cookies - leave some on a plate for him on Christmas Eve. He'll smell the vanilla and come running! As a variation, make alphabet cookies: Ice the letters of the alphabet onto them. Or the letters of each child's name. How about Advent Cookies, with the numbers 1 to 25 on them, for each day leading up to Christmas? Package them individually in little cellophane bags. Think of your own ideas!

Enjoy!

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