Friday, January 21, 2011

Children's Stuff: Cooking Sugar Cookies

By Beth Simpson


Sugar Cookies are mostly loved dessert dishes. Some people love to just eat it but some also like to give it out as a gift. It is a good gift item as you have all the options on the way you will garnish it.

The main ingredients of cooking the sugar cookies are flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla and you can pick out what you want from baking soda or baking powder. Really, this is it. The rest of making these cookies is to work hard.

These can be fashioned if you roll them or simply your hands can be used for this and you can either sprinkle or frost these with sugar. It actually depends on the holiday event on which these are to be used. In USA these are often used at the special occasions.

In the mid 1700's the sugar cookies were created by German Protestants who lives in Pennsylvania's Nazareth, it was then named as Nazareth Sugar Cookie. In 2001, the common wealth of Pennsylvania established that sugar cookie will be the official cookie of the state as a very important part of the state history.

Theories have been circulating that the cookies are from "jumble" these cookies are those that has already existed in the Middle Ages. The primary ingredients were flour, nuts, sugar, eggs and anise. Certain flavorings in replacement of anise have been approved like Vanilla and caraway. These treats were usually shaped as a ring or typically rolled cookies.

Traditionally been a part the world, the cookies are parts of are special ,occasion such as Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and St. Patrick's Day. The Homemade sugar cookies s considered as one of the top treats you can ever eat.

Baking is not an easy task but baking homemade cookies is not one of the complicated recipes that you can prepare. Recipes are available from the internet, cookbooks and sometimes on the back label of cooking ingredients. Try a few of them at first to find the option that you feel is right for you. This includes making and eating.

Another attraction of these cookies is that one can easily bake these cookies and fashion them as well. All you need to do is to get started and decide which options fit your teammates and you correctly.

There decoration is easy also and you can design these according to the occasion. Doing that involves very little effort, as they can all be easily designed on my like a piece of canvas. This is something that everyone should try at least once.




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