At last, it’s here! Cookie day! I love baking Christmas cookies, and I was so excited to bake cookies with my mother and the girls today. Actually today will be the first day of cookie baking, followed by many more batches of cookies and fudge this week. Then we will have fun delivering cookie trays toward the end of the week.
We don’t have any unique recipes, just traditional favorites. These three recipes are ones that the girls can easily help with even at a very young age.
Holiday Snickerdoodles
This recipe from Betty Crocker is very easy to make with kids, and the cookies taste delicious.
How to get the kids involved:
- Lovey (age 3) scoops dough for the grown-ups to roll into balls. She is also beginning to rolls some of the balls.
- Both Lovey and Tinker (20 months) hold a deep, plastic bowl and gently shake it back and forth to cover the balls with the cinnamon and sugar mix. You could also use a bowl with a lid if needed.
Source: Bettycrocker.com
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
This is another easy recipe from Betty Crocker, and these are my personal favorite.
How to get the kids involved:
- As with the first recipe, Lovey scoops dough for the grown-ups to roll into balls. She is also beginning to rolls some of the balls.
- We also roll these cookies in sugar. Both Lovey and Tinker hold a deep, plastic bowl and gently shake it back and forth to cover the balls with sugar. You could also use a bowl with a lid if needed.
- Lovey helps make the indentations in the cookies, but her thumbs are much too small. We experimented with a few different methods, and we found the bottom of a round teaspoon worked the best for her. Just test out a few small round kitchen gadgets to see which you like best.
Source: Bettycrocker.com
Poinsettia Cookies
This recipe from Food Network is a little more difficult, but it has become one of our annual traditions. After a few tries it gets to be pretty easy, and Lovey thinks they are so fancy!
Source: Foodnetwork.com
How to get the kids involved:
- Most of this recipe is put together by adults, but Lovey enjoyed adding the colored sugar and M&M centers. She created a few of her own colorful masterpieces with different color combinations.
- For our cookie trays we don’t include the sticks, but kids could also help add those.
Lovey also helped Mimi make sugar cookies for our play date yesterday. We had a few (a ton) extra, so the girls continued to decorate those today, too.
Even though she had a lot of fun baking, I think it is safe to say Lovey’s favorite part of the day was sampling all of the cookies.
What are your favorite cookie recipes to make with kids?
Less stress, more connecting this holiday season? Yes, PLEASE!
From the arrival of fall to Halloween to Thanksgiving and Christmas, the last four months of the year can be a wonderful opportunity for making family memories and spending time together, but they can also be stressful as we try to collect ideas, recipes, and activities to try together.
Stephanie Morgan, founder of Modern Parents Messy Kids, a site that’s been voted Best Craft Blog in Parents Magazine and one of babble.com’s Top 50 Craft Mom Blogs, recently released a new eBook to help us have a little less stress and more time to connect with family this year, and I’m so glad to be an affiliate for such a great resource.
Stephanie’s goal is to make it easier on all of us to enjoy the holidays with our kids. Hands-On Holidays is 100 pages full of her family’s very favorite ways to connect as a family over the holiday season. I love the convenience of having so many ideas in one place, and most of them are simple enough for even my toddler to participate in.
The book includes picture book suggestions, DIY decor, activities, and treats. Bonus sections also offer even more ideas to enjoy. Click here to view more details.
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