Sugar Cookies
First, thanks to everyone for my birthday wishes! I had a perfect birthday! And only 363 more days til my next one!
Ulrike of Küchenlatein (one of my favorite bloggers!!) chose Grandma’s All-Occasion Sugar Cookies for this week's Tuesdays with Dorie selection. You can find the recipe on her website or page 146 of Dorie's book, Baking: From My Home to Yours.
My immigrant Okinawan-born Japanese grandma didn't make cookies in her home in the West Adams area of Los Angeles...I remember her making orange mochi in a big bowl. She stirred the gooey, sticky mass with the bowl and sat on the floor for added leverage. Her 18 grandchildren would always find a bowl of semi-stale arare (Japanese crackers) on the coffee table as well. Funny the things you remember about your grandma!
Do you see Madonna, Elvis or Michigan in these cookies?
Be sure to check out the other Tuesdays with Dorie bakers! I'm sure everyone had a million different creative ideas! Also, don't forget that Dorie's book Baking is always a great holiday gift!
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They ALL look lovely...I think you did a wonderful job on them and presenting them...so pretty and festive!
They look lovely to me! I love sugar cookies!
They look cute and tasty (tasty being the important part in my book).
They look great!
LOL LOL Wacky roll!
They do look much better made with your good old hands (not that your hands are old, as they are in fact younger than mine! blink blink!!!) ...just as they should in the tradition of things!
BRAVO!
Thanks for the laugh! Although I didn't see anything recognizable in the sugar pattern, they still looked great.
they look lovely and Christmassy!
Too funny. Wait! Isn't that Bart Simpson in that one? I thought I saw his spiky hair. Maybe Matt Groening would be interested.
your cookies look festive and fun!i love the story about your grandmother, and had a good laugh at the cook visions:)
very festive! and by the way - NICE Pies With That entry...you won! I will be posting it later...but YOU WON!! Such a cool idea.
Don't start your birthday countdown for next year just yet, there is still a lot of birthday month to be celebrating. In fact, you should have another one of your lovely looking cookies as a little celebration right now. As I was cutting out shapes with this dough, I started thinking round-log cookies would have been a good idea.
SO cute and festive!
I'm not sure there is a perfect sugar cookie recipe, but it's good to keep trying. I like how yours turned out.
Oh, congratulations on your pie win!
Not gonna lie, I don't see Elvis, Madonna, *or* Michigan in those. They're pretty darned cute though. I'm glad your birthday was good, and now I have a hankering for mochi. Which is odd, since I've never had it before...
Actually, I see Hitchcock. They look mighty tasty to me.
I like your red and green sprinkles mixed together. =) Nice job.
I like your red and green sprinkles mixed together. =) Nice job.
They look very Christmas-y!
I love mochi! I also think that your sugar cookies look so festive. There's just something about the red and green sprinkles that puts me in the holiday spirit!
they look really delicious :) ooh and i love mochi! never tried making it, though.
Very festive! I like the idea of selling them on Ebay! :)
Love your grandma memories! There's something to be said for drop cookies, although I don't think your sliced ones look outlandish at all.
Nancy
Glad you tried the cookies and yes, I totally remember funny things about childhood as well. Like freezers with ice trays that crack when opened for a late night Dr. Pepper. he he The bright side is that next week we get to try a new cookie recipe. Yippee
AmyRuth
You are definitely my favorite librarian in the world, but you already know that. Your cookies look exactly like mine. It is uncanny! ;) I am going to post mine tomorrow morning since night time pictures look caca. Good job!
I think the cookies look great! Who wants perfect circles anyway? :)
Cute cookies! I was searching the sprinkles for Madonna and Elvis. Sort of like one of those "Magic Eye" books!!
I think the cookie on the left with green sprinkles looks like Kermit.
looks beautiful! my brother adores sugar cookies.
Sorry that this recipe wasn't yours, but thanks for joining TWD and baking with me and trying it out.
Ulrike from Küchenlatein
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