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One of my favorite family holiday traditions has always been
making Christmas cookies. It is a tradition that has been passed
down through our family, and I am continuing it on today with my
daughter. This year my daughter decided she wanted to try to
make them herself, and they turned out great! I was the official
documenter, taking pictures and recording the decorative results
for our family scrapbook.
To make the scrapbook layout more personal, I decided to use our
favorite Christmas cookie recipe as part of the layout. I also
used cookie cutters to make my own die-cuts to embellish the
page. I was very happy with the results!
Directions:
Take several photos of your family making Christmas cookies. If
you didn't make any this year, you may have some old photos
laying around from Christmases past. I chose to use only three
photos in this layout because the recipe took up a lot of room on
the page. I took a picture of the unfrosted cookies as they came
out of the oven, a picture of my daughter frosting the cookies,
and then a picture of the finished cookies.
For the background paper, I chose a holiday-themed piece of 12x12
paper. It is green with holly berries. To mat the pictures and
the caption, I used green card stock.
For the caption, I typed "Making Cookies, Christmas 2004"
vertically on a page in a large font that I liked and printed it
off the computer. I matted this narrow piece with green
card stock and glued it to the left-hand side of the background
page.
For the pictures and the recipe, I used a full 8 1/2 x 11 sheet
of green card stock for the matting. I printed out the recipe
and placed it at the bottom of the card stock (with a picture of
the finished cookies at the right-hand bottom corner of the
recipe), and I arranged the other photos at the top of the card
stock with two die-cuts I created from our cookie cutters. The
cookie cutter shapes were a bell and star cut from yellow card
stock. I glued all these pieces to the green card stock and then
glued the card stock to the background page. That's it! See the
following link for a photo of the completed page:
http://www.crafty-moms.com/articles/121904a.shtml
Here is the Christmas cookie recipe:
Christmas Sugar Cookies
- 1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
- 1 c. butter, softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 1 egg
- 2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
Mix powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract, and egg. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Divide dough into halves. Roll each half 1/2-inch thick on lightly floured surface. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Bake on lightly greased cookie sheet until the edges are brown, 7 to 8 minutes. Makes 5 dozen cookies. Frost when cookies are completely cooled.
Frosting
- 3 c. powdered sugar
- 1/3 c. butter, softened
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 tbsp. milk
Mix powdered sugar and butter. Stir in vanilla and milk. Beat until smooth and easy to spread. Divide into bowls and add food coloring until desired colors.
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