It's almost Halloween! Yippee! I love Halloween! I love the idea that candy will be marked down with a deep discount as soon as Halloween is over. I can buy my fill of Twix and Three Musketeers! That's the best part about Halloween.
One tradition we have in
Hale o Kikukat is baking cookies during fall intersession. That didn't happen this year because the Ds and I both took trips during intersession. Luckily, the Ds stayed with me for the weekend after intersession (Mr. Dependable told me he had to work
golf in Kona) so we were able to do our Halloween cookie baking.
D2 wanted to make Hoot Owl Cookies (she has been asking about this for a while), but I didn't think there would be enough for the kids to "help" if we did the owls. Inspired by Pinterest, I wanted to try making pinwheel cookies. After checking out a bunch of recipes, I settled on the dough for one of my trusty sugar cookie recipes and just changed the procedure to make the spirals.
If you prefer soft cookies, you can make the rope shorter than 12" before coiling. But if you are like me and prefer a crunchier cookie, its very important to hold to the 12" length before beginning the coil. A bunch of the spiral cookie pictures on Pinterest feature thicker cookies. They look neater than the ones we made, but I'm guessing they weren't crunchy. Any leftover dough (or if you get tired of rolling the dough into ropes) can be rolled out and cut with cookie cutters. You can find the procedure and baking times for the cut-out cookies
here.
Turned out only D2 helped me with the cookie baking. D1 recused herself and spent the time in her room. I'm thinking that was a blessing in disguise. D2 loves making and decorating cookies, while D1, being a taskmaster, just wants to get things done.
click on recipe title for printable recipe
1/2 c butter, softened
1/2 c sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla or almond extract
2 c flour
2 tsp baking powder
food coloring: yellow, orange, black
non-pareils
Combine flour and baking powder. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and extract and mix well. Add dry ingredients. Divide dough into 3 parts. Tint each part a different color. Shape colored dough into a flat brick and chill for 30 minutes. Divide each color of dough into 24 pieces. Shape each piece into a cylinder 1" long. Place 2 cylinders of dough next to each other. Add 3rd cylinder on top. Roll together to form a 2" cylinder. Chill for 10 minutes. Remove 1/4 of cylinders from refrigerator. Roll into a rope 12" long. Then twist from one end. Coil cylinder, taking care to keep center flat. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Chill while preparing remainder of cookies. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Roll edges of cookies in non-pareils. Bake for 19 minutes. Place cookies on cooling rack to cool.
It's almost Halloween! Yippee! I love Halloween! I love the idea that candy will be marked down with a deep discount as soon as Halloween is over. I can buy my fill of Twix and Three Musketeers! That's the best part about Halloween.
One tradition we have in
Hale o Kikukat is baking cookies during fall intersession. That didn't happen this year because the Ds and I both took trips during intersession. Luckily, the Ds stayed with me for the weekend after intersession (Mr. Dependable told me he had to work
golf in Kona) so we were able to do our Halloween cookie baking.
D2 wanted to make Hoot Owl Cookies (she has been asking about this for a while), but I didn't think there would be enough for the kids to "help" if we did the owls. Inspired by Pinterest, I wanted to try making pinwheel cookies. After checking out a bunch of recipes, I settled on the dough for one of my trusty sugar cookie recipes and just changed the procedure to make the spirals.
If you prefer soft cookies, you can make the rope shorter than 12" before coiling. But if you are like me and prefer a crunchier cookie, its very important to hold to the 12" length before beginning the coil. A bunch of the spiral cookie pictures on Pinterest feature thicker cookies. They look neater than the ones we made, but I'm guessing they weren't crunchy. Any leftover dough (or if you get tired of rolling the dough into ropes) can be rolled out and cut with cookie cutters. You can find the procedure and baking times for the cut-out cookies
here.
Turned out only D2 helped me with the cookie baking. D1 recused herself and spent the time in her room. I'm thinking that was a blessing in disguise. D2 loves making and decorating cookies, while D1, being a taskmaster, just wants to get things done.
click on recipe title for printable recipe
1/2 c butter, softened
1/2 c sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla or almond extract
2 c flour
2 tsp baking powder
food coloring: yellow, orange, black
non-pareils
Combine flour and baking powder. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and extract and mix well. Add dry ingredients. Divide dough into 3 parts. Tint each part a different color. Shape colored dough into a flat brick and chill for 30 minutes. Divide each color of dough into 24 pieces. Shape each piece into a cylinder 1" long. Place 2 cylinders of dough next to each other. Add 3rd cylinder on top. Roll together to form a 2" cylinder. Chill for 10 minutes. Remove 1/4 of cylinders from refrigerator. Roll into a rope 12" long. Then twist from one end. Coil cylinder, taking care to keep center flat. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Chill while preparing remainder of cookies. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Roll edges of cookies in non-pareils. Bake for 19 minutes. Place cookies on cooling rack to cool.
It's almost Halloween! Yippee! I love Halloween! I love the idea that candy will be marked down with a deep discount as soon as Halloween is over. I can buy my fill of Twix and Three Musketeers! That's the best part about Halloween.
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