Cutout Cookies

Almost every day Hailey looks through her cookbook (The Toddler Cookbook by Annabel Karmel) and picks out recipes that she wants to make.  So earlier this week we made the Cutout Cookies.

Ingredients:
2 sticks of softened butter
 3/4 cup superfine sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt

Directions:
Mix butter, sugar, egg and vanilla extract in a large bowl until well mixed.
Add flour and salt and mix together.
Roll our the dough and cut out shapes using cookie cutters.
Bake at 350 for about 14 minutes.  Makes about 30 cookies.

Get everything you need.

You’ll need one of these too- a happy toddler who loves to bake!

Hailey mixing the ingredients together.

Hailey crying while she had to wait for the freshly baked cookies to cool.

Happily enjoying the yummy cookies she made.

Snowstorm

Here’s a fun snowstorm that you can enjoy inside your warm house!

Here’s what you need: construction paper (black or blue), white paint and a water bottle.

Put the bottom of the water bottle in the white paint and then stamp it onto your construction paper.  Hailey loved doing this.  She said, “Oh this is a nice snowstorm.  I’m going to hang it on the fridge when it dries.”

The finished snowstorm.

Letter of the Week- Letter G

Hailey is finally healthy enough to do some activities so we are finally back!  Hopefully we’ll be back to stay this time- no more getting sick.

I am going to be doing things a little bit differently though.  In the past I was trying to do way too many things with Hailey in one week.  We did a letter project almost every day as well as a project relating to our theme, a number, shape and color activity, a Bible story activity, and more.  It was getting to be too much for me to plan and get everything together.  So, we will be doing less art activities than we were doing before.

So, getting back into our letter each week- this week is the letter G.  I got this idea from No Time for Flashcards (I get almost all of my letter of the week activities from Allie- she has such cute ideas and Hailey always loves them).

Here’s what we made:

You’ll need: green paper with the letter G on it, gold (yellow) paper, glittery paint, and something to paint with.

Hailey loved painting the G.  I told her that we used Green paper because green starts with G and that we used Glitter paint because that starts with G.

The completed Glittery G.

Banana Muffins

Hailey got The Toddler Cookbook by Annabel Karmel for Christmas from her Aunt Ellie and Uncle Matt.  Since Hailey has been sick we haven’t had a chance to try any of the recipes in it until today.  (Although we have “read” the cookbook many nights for her bed time story!)

Anyhoo- Hailey wanted to make the Mini Banana Muffins and we had all of the ingredients on hand.  So- we made some yummy banana muffins this morning.

Ingredients:

1 medium egg
1/3 cup packed soft light brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 large, very ripe banana (we didn’t have a large banana, so we used 2 small ones)
1/4 cup sunflower or vegetable oil
2/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch salt
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Mix egg, sugar and vanilla.  Whisk together until thick.
3. Mash the banana in a small bowl then add to egg mixture.  Add oil.
4. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in separate bowl.  Then stir in until just combined.
5. Fill muffin liners (or greased muffin pan) about two-thirds full.
6. Bake for 12-14 minutes until risen and firm.  Makes 18 mini-muffins.

Note- we don’t have a mini-muffin pan.  So, we made 9 regular sized muffins.  I increased the cooking time to 20 minutes and they were perfect.

The ingredients

Hailey mixing the egg and brown sugar together.  (Isn’t she cute in her adorable little apron??)

Trying a bite of the bananas while mashing them together.

The finished banana muffins.  Yummy!

Also, now that Hailey is feeling better we should be back next week with some fun winter crafts!