Making cookies with Grandma

Last weekend we made one of our barely necessary trips to Costco. It was mainly for a gourmet lunch consisting of a Polish Hot Dog and drink. But we don't pass up the opportunity to sample the various offerings around the store to add to our dining pleasure. It also gives us a chance to see new items on the shelves. This weekend one of the new items was a box of Christmas Cookie makings - 5 pouches in all and with each pouch you can make either Drop Sugar Cookies or Roll & Cut Out Cookies. Carolyn figured the roll out cookies would be the most fun so she mixed the dough and refrigerated it until Tim and Jake arrived.


It turned out the most fun was playing with the flour. Carolyn showed the boys how to roll out the dough so they could use the cookie cutters but they were more fascinated with the sifter and the tactile feel of the flour.



Finally, she was able to get them to cut out the cookies in the various Halloween shapes including pumpkin, witch, ghost, and bat. By the time some of them got on the cookie sheet you really had to use your imagination.



Carolyn convinced the boys that white frosting was more appropriate for ghosts than chocolate would be and it would look better. After the frosting, Tim and Jake applied the sprinkles liberally as you can see from their staged display. We went as many cookies home as we could. (And threw the flour away that had been played in so much. The flour on the cookies was baked but we didn't know what would happen with the rest of the flour.

By the way, the cookies were tasty and the mix is easier to do than mixing from scratch so you might want to check it out.