We made
peanut butter cookies from a recipe in "Taste of Home" magazine. I don't usually like recipes that involve this much decorating. I was pleased to see how well my 3-year-old made the cookies all by herself. Of course, I made the dough the night before so that all we'd have to do is decorate and cook them. Otherwise, they get tired of the whole project, and I'm left decorating the ridiculous things myself.
Each kid had a plate to work on, and each ingredient was separated into a bowl. It was like a cooking show, where they hire someone else to do the dishes. (OK, so it wasn't
exactly like a cooking show.)
Here are the mice waiting to go into the oven. They get their little tails after they're cooked, but before they cool down. It was funny to see how slight changes in the placement of the candy pieces made them have different expressions. One, especially, looked really angry.
Our cookies did not turn out like in the magazine picture. The mice are pretty flat. We made these to take to a party, so we only took the prettiest ones. On some of the mice, the faces had slid to the side while cooking, so the mice looked dead. Those were our personal favorites, so it's best we kept them anyway.
We made peanut butter cookies from a recipe in "Taste of Home" magazine. I don't usually like recipes that involve this much decorating. I was pleased to see how well my 3-year-old made the cookies all by herself. Of course, I made the dough the night before so that all we'd have to do is decorate and cook them. Otherwise, they get tired of the whole project, and I'm left decorating the ridiculous things myself.
Each kid had a plate to work on, and each ingredient was separated into a bowl. It was like a cooking show, where they hire someone else to do the dishes. (OK, so it wasn't exactly like a cooking show.)
Here are the mice waiting to go into the oven. They get their little tails after they're cooked, but before they cool down. It was funny to see how slight changes in the placement of the candy pieces made them have different expressions. One, especially, looked really angry.
Our cookies did not turn out like in the magazine picture. The mice are pretty flat. We made these to take to a party, so we only took the prettiest ones. On some of the mice, the faces had slid to the side while cooking, so the mice looked dead. Those were our personal favorites, so it's best we kept them anyway.
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LOL - VERY cute mice!! We might have to try that here too. :) We just love to make the little cutesy things on the back of snack boxes...Matthew recently made a dragonfly from those graham cracker sticks that he saw on the box.
I've never wanted to eat a mouse before in my life...but today, the first day getting back on the diet wagon, I especially want to eat your mice! :)
Are these computer mouse cookies or mouse mouse cookies?
Next time, if there is a next time, try chilling the dough after you shape them but before baking (you can decorate before or after chilling, but it's hard to find room in the fridge for them once they're decorated). That will help them keep their shape in the oven.
If that doesn't help (and you'll know within one pan whether it worked) then try raising the oven temp ten degrees or so.
Cookies get flat because the heat of the oven melts the butter before they rise and set into shape. That's why you have to smash peanut butter cookies flat, because pb takes a year to melt in the oven!
They look yummy! i'd eat mice every day if they were like yours!
Jenney, thank you for your tips. I think we will make them again. As I said, I usually don't like spending too much time decorating things, but in this case, the kids did it all.
You're probably right about the dough. I chilled it overnight, but it probably got pretty warm in the kids' hot little hands.
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