Sunday, March 21, 2010

Play Doh Cookies


Play-Doh Cookies




from : All recipes.com

There are probably a lot of different recipes like this, but this one tasted pretty good to me, and they turned out so cute. I made them to go on Mr. Lopart's candy store table for Caleb's birthday party! Hope you guys like them.

Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 3 ounces cream cheese
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • assorted colors of paste food coloring
  • 24 lollipop sticks

Directions

  1. In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
  2. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough into fourths. Tint each with a different food color. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Working with half of each color, shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 1 pink, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 orange ball together to make 1 large ball. Shape into a 12 inch long roll (like a snake), starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.
  4. Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls

Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls
from: Recipezaar

Seriously, these are sooo good!

Ingredients

FILLING

ICING


Directions

  1. For the rolls, dissolve the yeast in the warm milk in a large bowl.
  2. Add sugar, margarine salt, eggs, and flour, mix well.
  3. Knead the dough into a large ball, using your hands dusted lightly with flour.
  4. Put in a bowl, cover and let rise in a warm place about 1 hour or until the dough has doubled in size.
  5. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface, until it is approx 21 inches long by 16 inches wide.
  6. It should be approx 1/4 thick.
  7. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  8. To make filling, combine the brown sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Spread the softened margarine over the surface of the dough, then sprinkle the brown sugar and cinnamon evenly over the surface.
  9. Working carefully, from the long edge, roll the dough down to the bottom edge.
  10. Cut the dough into 1 3/4 inch slices, and place in a lightly greased baking pan.
  11. Bake for 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
  12. While the rolls are baking combine the icing ingredients.
  13. Beat well with an electric mixer until fluffy.
  14. When the rolls are done, spread generously with icing.