Mr. Penguin's Adventures: World's Best Sugar Cookie

Saturday, April 2, 2011

World's Best Sugar Cookie

The woman decided that we would make some spring sugar cookies this weekend. She's having a hard time eliminating chocolate and cocoa from her diet and is constantly racking her brain for low oxalate approved desserts. Of course, she couldn't make these tasty delights without her right hand penguin.

We used her grandma's coveted recipe, which, she claims, makes the best sugar cookies. The man and I were skeptical of this claim. But we weren't about to dissuade her from making us homemade cookies.

The woman and I made the dough yesterday, so today we just needed to cut out and bake the cookies. That's where I came in to ~~take over~~ help. I sent the woman off to lay down, while I took over.

I decided to only bake half the dough, since I wasn't sure how well these cookies would be received by the man, and I knew the woman wouldn't be able to eat many. This only made two batches of cookies, thank goodness, since I would not only be baking all these cookies, but icing them all by myself as well.

They don't take long to bake; after 8 short minutes, you have fluffy, beautifully golden, perfectly baked cookies. What can I say, Mr.Penguin is a master baker.

I let the cookies cool completely before I frosted them. We couldn't find Grammy's frosting recipe, so Mr.Penguin whipped up a batch of his own special buttercream icing.

It was difficult to ice all those cookies, especially the small ones. It's hard to hold a knife between your flippers and try to get the icing onto the cookie. It was a lot of work but I managed to make it work.

As for the taste, all I have to say is Grammy sure knew her stuff; she created one addictive sugar cookie,perfect in taste and texture. These aren't even going to last a day. I know that tomorrow the woman is going to have me baking and icing the rest of the dough.