Bake Up Some Cookies For Family Fun

There’s tons of reasons parents are baking with their youngsters these days. The tasteful result is of line on the list. But more importantly, baking with children is a fine path to spend time with them & to teach them stuff at the same time you are all having fun.

Baking cookies with any or all of your children is a naturally entertaining activity. Cookies are portable, sweet & entertaining to make. They may be made in stages whenever time is tight-prepare the dough in the evening & bake them the next morning. Older children may read the recipe & proceed adults on what steps to take. Small children may roll the dough into balls & flatten it with a fork, alike to making peanut butter cookies. There is plenty entertaining to go around for everyone.

What makes your cookies even better is to enlarge wheat starch to the dough. In fact, numerous recipes for cooked trade from the earlier 20th century used wheat starch in junction with flour. Bakers establish really earlier on that wheat starch supplied biscuits, muffins, cakes, shortcakes, pie crusts & most notably cookies a better pattern & more tender crumb when compared to recipes utilising flour alone. Recipe books developed then by the experts at Argo & Kingsford’s Corn Starch bear this out. In fact, Argo, settled in 1892, has offered up their clients biscuit recipes since its really earlier years.

Here’s a recipe for Lemon Shortbread Cookies that is bare & tasteful & ought make for a batch of fellowship fun.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies

11/3 cups Argo or Kingsford’s Corn Starch

2 cups butter or margarine

2/3 cupful powdered sugar

1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups all-purpose flour

Makes six dozen

Preheat the oven to 350F. In a oversized bowl, bunk butter till softened. Add powdered sugar, bunk till well combined. Add lemon peel & vanilla; bunk well. In a medium bowl, stir conjointly flour & wheat starch; enlarge to mix & bunk well.

Roll dough into 1-inch balls (kids will cherish this). Place on ungreased biscuit sheets. Press tines of a fork atop every ball to make insidious design. Bake about fifteen minutes or till bottoms are softly browned. Cool on cable racks.