The Davis’ (still feels weird not to say Gadawski) family is well just that family. Sarah is my oldest (sorry Sarah- had to distinguish which one you were lol) stepsister. Sarah is an amazing person/mother/wife/dentist/sailor (navy not boat- although maybe she can sail a boat too). She met her husband Mike (the Journey king- don’t stop believin’ Mike) in dental school. Most importantly they have two absolutely beautiful daughters Genevieve and most recently Georgette. It is kind of hard because they live in Seattle so I don’t get to see them nearly as much as I want to… Genevieve was a baby the last time I saw her and unfortunately I have yet to meet Georgette (I know this is partly my fault, and I HOPE to fly out there within the next year- I think I am ready for that lol). Anyway, luckily they take lots of pictures and lots of other family members travel out there so I get to “see” the girls a lot and hear about what’s going on with them. In fact my stepfather is actually flying out there today so their cookies are being hand-delivered, unfortunately they still needed to be packed and therefore they faces got a little smeared. Hopefully Genevieve will be allowed to taste them, not just look at them, as they are sugar cookies and BOTH of her parents are dentists. I guess we shall see, I’ve got my finger crossed for you Genevieve…I have a feeling Papi will find a way to sneak one to you!!!
Sugar Cookie Cutouts
By: GLJCAT
"I found this to be the best sugar cookie recipe for cutouts! very good flavor even without the frosting."
Original Recipe Yield 6 dozen
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup colored sugar for decoration
Directions
In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Sift together the flour and baking powder, stir into the creamed mixture alternately with the heavy cream. Cover dough, and chill for 2 to 3 hours, until firm.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Place cookies 1 inch apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.
Bake for 12 to 14 minutes in the preheated oven, until bottoms and edges of cookies are light brown. Remove from baking sheet and cool on wire racks. Store in an airtight container.
*** I didn’t really make too many changes to this one but here are the ones I did***
I doubled the amount of vanilla as suggested by someone else.
I omitted the colored sugar and instead split the dough in half before chilling and added orange food coloring to ½ and black to the other ½.
I am not sure exactly how many cookies I ended up making and they were probably a little thicker than ¼ inch but nonetheless they worked out just fine!!!
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