Tuesday, December 14, 2010

mmmmmmm Gingerbread






The last two days have certainly been action packed. We have made 105 gingerbread cookies. That is 35 x 3. That makes for a whole lotta baking. I am frankly baked out now for a few days. I have to say though that we enjoyed the time at the round table mixing cookie dough up and cutting cookies out and watching while they baked. After they cooled we organized some cookie painting and a sprinkle station for extra decoration. We also had a Maple Tree Alumni with us today who among other things over saw many parts of the Cookie Project especially the Sprinkle station. We will be doing another round of painting and sprinkling again tomorrow to ensure everyone has cookies to take home. I've included our recipe for Gingerbread below.


Gingerbread

Dry Ingredients
3 cups Flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 Tbs ground ginger
13/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp nutmeg

Beat on Medium speed until well blended:

1/2 c butter softened
3/4 brown sugar
1 large egg

Next add:
1/2 cup molasses
2 tsp vanilla

Mix dry ingredients into the wet and you may have to use your hands to mix it all up. It is best to let the dough rest for a day in the fridge. The flavors are more intensified.

Cookie Paint
Icing Sugar and food Coloring
Tiny bit of water to make it paint like
All the sprinkles you can handle

The classroom smelled amazing today and yesterday and we had christmas music going and it just felt like home. Happy Baking!




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