Mmmmmm... My Cookies! (hands off)

[Rock Anemone]

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[crzy4reefs]

I'm doing sugar cookies for the kids this afternoon (of course zack has to make cookies for Santa). I have the yummy sugar cookie dough all made and in the fridge. So that will be fun for them all to do then tonight Santa (aka daddy) will eat the cookies and drink the milk and stormy (our German shepherd dog) will eat the carrots we put out for the reindeer

[dkh0331]

ms. dkh spent the past two days baking cookies. Her in the kitchen would be like nina posting in the Corals forum - something that just doesn't happen.

[TOURKID]

those cookies look fake they are so perfect!!! how the heck is the iceing so even?? very nice!

[Rock Anemone]

:D

Thanks TOURKID. It's a technique called "flooding". Should find a HOW-TO on any website. It works great.

[Sk8r]

Ours are Russian Teacakes, Chocolate Crinkles, and Cornflake Macaroons.

The recipe for the first two, I don't know, but the Cornflake Macaroons are easy.
Heat oven to 350, grease cookie sheet.
6 eggwhites beaten to a meringue; fold in 1 cup sugar or Splenda, with liberal dose of vanilla---to your own taste. I use quite a bit.
Fold in gently as many cornflakes [about half a box] as seems reasonable with the amount of meringue [eggs vary wildly] and with the cornflakes, fold in a really unreasonable amount of coconut, either stringy or flaked. [I use a fat full cup of coconut.]

Use spoon or gloves [or both, if desperate: it clings] to drop quite a few 2" balls of the mix as loosely compacted as possible while still stuck together [these are airy cookies] onto the greased sheet/s and bake for about 20 minutes [until meringue browns and crusts]. Yep, it's raw egg but it shouldn't be raw by the time it's baked 20 min.

Even the crumbs of this are addictive, and it's great for including small kids in the cookie making process. Don't let them try folding stuff into the meringue, but olders can run the mixer and youngers can 'bring-me' the coconut, etc. Takes about 10 minutes to make if you have the stuff, and about 20 or a little more to bake, can be eaten straight off the pan, but watch for burn-ey spots in the melted sugared meringue. Let littlest kids wait for it to cool.

[specialkb]

Can i get a frag of the 3rd one to the right middle row? :)