Q. Needs to be cute and taste good!
A. I like the cookie bouquets for birthday gifts. You don't have to have cutters to make the shapes...just make the shapes from paper and lay the pattern down on the rolled out cookie dough and cut around it. To put the cookies on a stick you can just lay the stick on the back of the baked cookie and pour some melted chocolate over it....this will "glue" it to the cookie.
I used to work in a cookie bouquet shop and I have a very good icing recipe to use for the decorations. I also have 3 real different cookie recipes for rolled out cookies...you can choose which you would like.
This is a link to a cookie bouquet idea:
http://www.clevercookie.com/happy-birthday-to-him-cookie-arrangement.html
......after the chocolate has dried and the cookie is attached to the stick you can put the sticks in a block of styrofoam to hold them in place.
CUTOUT COOKIE ICING
3 egg whites, at room temp.
Whip 2 min., fast speed or until stiff.
Add:
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. powdered sugar (1 box)
Mix.
Add,
2 TBS. Crisco
Mix on low speed until smooth.
(if you want to make a glaze from this, just add a little hot water to it so it is thin enough to dip the cookie in or brush the icing on the cookie.
CUTOUT SUGAR COOKIES
set oven temp. at 375°F
1 1/3 cups shortening (I use butter or margarine)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
(optional, 1/8 tsp. each, almond, orange, lemon flavors)
2 eggs
2 1/2 TBS. milk
4 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Cream shortening, add sugar and flavorings and cream together.
Add eggs and milk. Cream.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt together.
Add flour mixture to batter. Mix just until incorporated.
Cool in refrigerator 1 hour or more. Divide dough in half.
Roll out to desired thickness. I make mine almost 1/2 inch thick. Most people
make them 1/4 inch thick.
Cut in shapes and place on cookie sheet. Reroll the dough with the rest of the dough.
If you do not plan to ice the cookies, sprinkle with sugar. Otherwise, leave plain.
Bake at 375°F for 6 to 12 minutes, depending on how thich you roll them. They should be lightly browned around the edges
BROWNIE ROLL OUT COOKIES
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup lightly salted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Whisk dry flour, salt and baking powder in bowl and set aside. Mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa in mixer. Gradually add flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least one hour.
Roll out cookie dough on floured counter. Cut into desired shapes, brushing extra deposits of flour off the top. (It does disappear once baked, though, so don�t overly fret if they go into the oven looking white.) Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 8 to 11 minutes (the former for 1/8-inch thick cookies, the latter for 1/4-inch cookies) until the edges are firm and the centers are slightly soft and puffed.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Peanut Butter Cut-Outs
Yield: 36 Servings
4 c flour
1/4 ts salt
1 TBS. baking powder
1 c creamy peanut butter
1 c butter; softened
1 c dark brown sugar
2 eggs
2/3 c corn syrup
Preheat oven to 325øF.
Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Set aside. In another
bowl, beat peanut butter, brown sugar, eggs, and corn syrup until
smooth. Slowly add flour mixture, and blend to form a smooth dough. Wrap
and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
Divide dough in half. Working with one half at a time, roll on lightly
floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness for thin cookies, 1/4 inch for
thicker, softer cookies. Cut with cookie cutters. Bake on ungreased
cookie sheets for 8-10 minutes. Decorate with piped chocolate, royal
icing, or powdered-sugar icing, or enjoy plain. Makes 3 dozen.
I used to work in a cookie bouquet shop and I have a very good icing recipe to use for the decorations. I also have 3 real different cookie recipes for rolled out cookies...you can choose which you would like.
This is a link to a cookie bouquet idea:
http://www.clevercookie.com/happy-birthday-to-him-cookie-arrangement.html
......after the chocolate has dried and the cookie is attached to the stick you can put the sticks in a block of styrofoam to hold them in place.
CUTOUT COOKIE ICING
3 egg whites, at room temp.
Whip 2 min., fast speed or until stiff.
Add:
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. powdered sugar (1 box)
Mix.
Add,
2 TBS. Crisco
Mix on low speed until smooth.
(if you want to make a glaze from this, just add a little hot water to it so it is thin enough to dip the cookie in or brush the icing on the cookie.
CUTOUT SUGAR COOKIES
set oven temp. at 375°F
1 1/3 cups shortening (I use butter or margarine)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
(optional, 1/8 tsp. each, almond, orange, lemon flavors)
2 eggs
2 1/2 TBS. milk
4 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Cream shortening, add sugar and flavorings and cream together.
Add eggs and milk. Cream.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt together.
Add flour mixture to batter. Mix just until incorporated.
Cool in refrigerator 1 hour or more. Divide dough in half.
Roll out to desired thickness. I make mine almost 1/2 inch thick. Most people
make them 1/4 inch thick.
Cut in shapes and place on cookie sheet. Reroll the dough with the rest of the dough.
If you do not plan to ice the cookies, sprinkle with sugar. Otherwise, leave plain.
Bake at 375°F for 6 to 12 minutes, depending on how thich you roll them. They should be lightly browned around the edges
BROWNIE ROLL OUT COOKIES
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup lightly salted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Whisk dry flour, salt and baking powder in bowl and set aside. Mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa in mixer. Gradually add flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least one hour.
Roll out cookie dough on floured counter. Cut into desired shapes, brushing extra deposits of flour off the top. (It does disappear once baked, though, so don�t overly fret if they go into the oven looking white.) Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 8 to 11 minutes (the former for 1/8-inch thick cookies, the latter for 1/4-inch cookies) until the edges are firm and the centers are slightly soft and puffed.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Peanut Butter Cut-Outs
Yield: 36 Servings
4 c flour
1/4 ts salt
1 TBS. baking powder
1 c creamy peanut butter
1 c butter; softened
1 c dark brown sugar
2 eggs
2/3 c corn syrup
Preheat oven to 325øF.
Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Set aside. In another
bowl, beat peanut butter, brown sugar, eggs, and corn syrup until
smooth. Slowly add flour mixture, and blend to form a smooth dough. Wrap
and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
Divide dough in half. Working with one half at a time, roll on lightly
floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness for thin cookies, 1/4 inch for
thicker, softer cookies. Cut with cookie cutters. Bake on ungreased
cookie sheets for 8-10 minutes. Decorate with piped chocolate, royal
icing, or powdered-sugar icing, or enjoy plain. Makes 3 dozen.
Gift ideas for boyfriends 21st birthday?
Q. My boyfriends turning 21 in october and i want to do something special for him. we're both in college so i don't want to spend a lot. i'm trying to keep it around $100 or less. I'm not 21 yet so i can't take him to a bar. We've been together almost 2 years so sex will definitly be part of his present. i'm looking for other unique ideas.
A. Plan a bbq with your closest friends at a park or lake. Or for a romantic touch, plan a picnic just for the two of you, without him finding out, pick a secluded spot in a nice park, make a nice lunch, get a small cake, get some birthday balloons and spend the whole day at the park. You can surprise him and keep it really nice and under a $100, you can even get him a nice gift like cologne or gift card to his fave store with a music CD, or even purchase matching claddagh rings to wear - they are inexpensive, I got mine from Amazon and both rings cost $36 and they are very pretty and don't look cheap at all!
What happens when you turn 20 years old?
Q. Ok my birthday isn't for a while but on the next, I'll be 20 y/o.
That seems like a lot. I will no longer be a teenager which is a cool thing I guess. Yet, I don't feel like I'm actually that old. I still feel like a kid. I don't really feel my age. Others my age seem so "adult".
I'm not sure...just yeah, 20 y/o.
That seems like a lot. I will no longer be a teenager which is a cool thing I guess. Yet, I don't feel like I'm actually that old. I still feel like a kid. I don't really feel my age. Others my age seem so "adult".
I'm not sure...just yeah, 20 y/o.
A. Not much. I'm 36 and still tend to act like a teen at times. On a number of birthdays in the last few years, I've had to very firmly instruct my family and friends that there will be no birthday parties with canes, black balloons, bottles of geritol, prescriptions from my brother for viagra and a jar opener from my father.
At 20, we celebrated with a case of beer, my suitemate at school funded a bottle of Jack Daniels, (I had the fake ID,) and we used trays we'd stolen from the dining hall of the college to go tobaganning down the down the gras on the hill in front of the ruins of the Old Main building.
At 21, I burned my fake ID, the person I'd been dating took me to my favorite bar, suggesting that "Tonight would be the night," and I wound up passing out and waking up still in my clothes, in my own bed, alone.
At 25, my auto insurance rates dropped. I celebrated that with friends at Sharky's Bar and I learned something; some of my friends should not be allowed to play darts after we've gone through five pitchers of beer. Do you have any idea how much a dart in your butt cheek when you go to get your darts hurts?
At 33, I wound up at a shrimp boil in West Bank, drinking too much again, living in a travel trailer on a golf course, and eating Hooah! bars and drinking coffee as I drove back ito the 9th Ward to put another day's work into the cleanup of New Orleans.
At 34, I was on the lake, in mid November, freezing and wakeboarding with friends, eating well, if not healthily, and having a ball.
35 and 36 both sort of passed quietly. I got some gifts but pretty much just took myself to a movie with a flask of bourbon and wondered if I could get away with strangling the noisy kids in the next row of seats.
The only thing worth really noting is that as I get older, I sound more and more like my father at times. I realized this a month or so ago when I barked at some kids in the neighborhood for walking down the center of the street at midnight. No sooner had I said "Are you unclear on the concept of a sidewalk?" than I realized that I was sounding just like my father.
In advance, Happy20th! You're only as old as you feel, birthdays are just mile markers on the highway of life, and enjoying life is what matters most.
To qualify that last statement, I watched my father take up skiing at 56. And 14 or so years later, I had to pick him up at the airport after he'd been distracted by a pretty girl on the slopes and somehow failed to notice he was heading for a tree. He hit with sufficient force to break a calavicle and dislocate his shoulder.
The next season, when he bough his helmet for skiing with, I had but one comment. "Good idea, you ain't gettin' any younger, and the trees ain't gettin' any softer." He hit me with the helmet,
Live, love, enjoy!
D
At 20, we celebrated with a case of beer, my suitemate at school funded a bottle of Jack Daniels, (I had the fake ID,) and we used trays we'd stolen from the dining hall of the college to go tobaganning down the down the gras on the hill in front of the ruins of the Old Main building.
At 21, I burned my fake ID, the person I'd been dating took me to my favorite bar, suggesting that "Tonight would be the night," and I wound up passing out and waking up still in my clothes, in my own bed, alone.
At 25, my auto insurance rates dropped. I celebrated that with friends at Sharky's Bar and I learned something; some of my friends should not be allowed to play darts after we've gone through five pitchers of beer. Do you have any idea how much a dart in your butt cheek when you go to get your darts hurts?
At 33, I wound up at a shrimp boil in West Bank, drinking too much again, living in a travel trailer on a golf course, and eating Hooah! bars and drinking coffee as I drove back ito the 9th Ward to put another day's work into the cleanup of New Orleans.
At 34, I was on the lake, in mid November, freezing and wakeboarding with friends, eating well, if not healthily, and having a ball.
35 and 36 both sort of passed quietly. I got some gifts but pretty much just took myself to a movie with a flask of bourbon and wondered if I could get away with strangling the noisy kids in the next row of seats.
The only thing worth really noting is that as I get older, I sound more and more like my father at times. I realized this a month or so ago when I barked at some kids in the neighborhood for walking down the center of the street at midnight. No sooner had I said "Are you unclear on the concept of a sidewalk?" than I realized that I was sounding just like my father.
In advance, Happy20th! You're only as old as you feel, birthdays are just mile markers on the highway of life, and enjoying life is what matters most.
To qualify that last statement, I watched my father take up skiing at 56. And 14 or so years later, I had to pick him up at the airport after he'd been distracted by a pretty girl on the slopes and somehow failed to notice he was heading for a tree. He hit with sufficient force to break a calavicle and dislocate his shoulder.
The next season, when he bough his helmet for skiing with, I had but one comment. "Good idea, you ain't gettin' any younger, and the trees ain't gettin' any softer." He hit me with the helmet,
Live, love, enjoy!
D
a good birthday gift for a 36 year old woman with cancer?
Q. im 18 and i have recently got a job at a nursery school with a woman who had cancer. she doesnt like to let on that she has cancer and hasnt had chemo because she doesnt think it can help. i was thinking of doing a special day at school for her, cakes, balloons etc but then i dont know what to get her as a gift please can you give me some ideas!
A. Whatever you would have gotten for her before cancer.
Forget the big party. Most cancer survivors would rather think of something else.
Forget the big party. Most cancer survivors would rather think of something else.
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