Family Recipes
If anything has ever been true about our family we love to eat and we love to eat good food there have been countless holidays where we felt like the only thing left to do was fall asleep. Here is a collection of family recipes I am building if you have a recipe you would like to add please email it to me [email protected]
My Moms (Danna Doty-Patterson-Donovan)
The “Best” Holiday… Sugar Cookies
The “Best” Holiday… Sugar Cookies
Easter (make bunnies and eggs)
Christmas (Angels galore)
New Years… Your choice
Danna Donovan
This recipe came from one of my son’s friends I believe she said it
was from Germany.
I begged for it every year since she gave me the cookies for Easter one year
as little bunnies and here it is to be Treasured.
These cookies are light with an amazing flavor
Not the usual overpowering “sugary” sensation of a sugar cookie
Make only “one” batch at time, it does not double well, but you
may have to make several batches to satisfy the “cookie monsters”
at your house.
Cookies
2 Cups Real butter (Nothing less will do for these cookies)
2 ½ Cups Sugar
1 ½ teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
1 ½ teaspoon Grated orange peel
3 Eggs
12 teaspoons Milk
6 Cups Sifted flour
4 ½ teaspoons Baking powder
¾ teaspoons Salt
Cream all the moist ingredients together and then slowly add the dry ingredients
* Very Important * The dough Must Chill in the refrigerator no less then One
Hour before baking*
Roll out onto a floured surface and use cookie cutters of your favorite holiday
shapes. Carefully place on cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 till slightly, very slightly brown, just barley.. you do not want
the cookies colored.
The allow to cool, Once cooled prepare the frosting below and color each batch.
When the cookies are completely cool, then frost the cookies very thinly to
keep the flavor of the cookie the primary excitement. And decorate with your
fanciest sprinkles and sparkles.
Frosting
½ teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
1 box 10x sifted Powdered Sugar
and Milk to thin
Put cookies on a rack.. Thin frosting till you are able to pour over each
cookie.. decorate and let set.