Who doesn’t love a thick, chewy, vanilla-loaded sugar cookie? Almost every family has their heirloom sugar cookie recipe and holiday traditions built around the baking of this time-honored treat.
But did you know you can do so much more with a sugar cookie recipe than just make cookies? Here are just a few ideas:
Like the traditional little candy hearts that show up on Valentine’s Day, sugar cookies can sport messages, written in icing. Besides Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hannukah, Happy Thanksgiving, why not your own customized sentiment? Line a lidded box with bright tissue paper, then fill with a dozen custom-messaged sugar cookies for a neighbor, co-worker, and so on.
Along the lines of a cookie with a message, the sugar cookie can also serve as an edible place card for a table setting. Nicely piped icing into the names of your dinner guests will be an unexpected surprise for folks when called to the table.
This dough, rolled to ¼” or less, also makes great building material for ginger bread houses.
Sugar cookie dough can be made slightly dry and used as a crumble for the top of any fruit crisp.
Add a little more liquid to a sugar cookie recipe (extra mil, an extra egg, and a little more vanilla) and you have a tasty batter for topping cobblers.
Alice likes to make hot cocoa stir sticks out of sugar cookie dough. She rolls them into 1/2 inch rounds, about 6 inches long and bakes. They absorb the cocoa as they stir and are just yummy—an edible stir stick—life is good!
You can use sugar cookie dough as the ever-loved fruit pizza base, and along the same lines, the base for lemon bars and layered pudding dessert.
We could go on, but you get the idea. A good sugar cookie recipe has a LOT of lives.
Hey, let’s have a contest: For the next 3 weeks, send us YOUR unique use for a sugar cookie recipe. The best one will win a DVO prize! We can hardly wait to see what you clever and terrific cooks come up with!
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