Reindeer Cookies

We followed a recipe to make REINDEER COOKIES today in preschool!  The kids loved following the directions to make their own cookie!  I made a cookie first and took a picture of each step (super easy) and made it into a recipe card.  Then, each student got the ingredients (Nutter Butter Cookie, m&m's and pretzels) and followed the recipe card to make their own reindeer cookie.  They loved it and were so proud!

Here's the recipe card.  If you want the recipe card, you can print this one or just shoot me off an e-mail and I can send you one!

Traffic Light Cookies

This week in our preschool we are learning about our community! I thought it would be fun to have a community looking snack, so we made Traffic Light Cookies! They were so fun! Along with talking about traffic lights and how they keep us safe, we talked about the shapes (rectangle and circles) and colors (brown, white, red, green, yellow).


I also wanted to encourage independence, so I made a recipe card with pictures for the kids to follow. So fun and easy!

Root Beer Cookies & Painted Toast

Here are a couple of links to yummy treats from one of my favorite people in the world: Bugg's Mama! Thanks so much to her for letting me share the following links to these yummy recipes that your kids will love!! Just click on the picture to link to her recipes!

Root Beer Cookies = YUM!!!

Painted Bread/Toast = FUN!

Snowflake Cookies

Here's what you need: Fancy Tarts/Cookies, Powdered Sugar







Here's what you do:
Place the Tart or Cookie on a plate and let your child sprinkle powdered sugar on the cookie through a powdered sugar shaker or wire strainer, etc. They come out looking like these darling little snowflakes!

Pumpkin Cookies - Take 2

I usually like the simple recipes ... but I found another recipe for Pumpkin Cookies that I had to try and is quite yummy! These are a little fluffier and less dense.
Here's what you need: (I'm just going to list them since there's quite a few)
* 1 cup canned pumpkin
* 1 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 1 egg
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon milk
* 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
* 2 cups chocolate chips
* 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Here's what you do:
Combine pumpkin, sugar, veggie oil, and egg. In a separate bowl, stir flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Dissolve the baking soda with the mild and stir in. Add flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture and mix well. Add vanilla, chocolate chips and the nuts. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 10-15 minutes or until lightly brown and firm.

Pilgrim Hats

What kids (and adults) wouldn't just love munching on a sweet little Pilgrim Hat after dinner this Thanksgiving. They're pretty easy and oh so cute!Here's what you need:wax paper, large marshmallows, milk chocolate chips, fudge stripe cookies and yellow icing (I bought gel first and it didn't look as cute as the icing).Here's what you do:
Lay out 24 cookies (stripes down) on waxed paper. Melt chocolate in microwave (I put it in a glass bowl on high in the microwave for 1 minute stir then 10 seconds and stir, 10 seconds and stir and continue until melted). Dip marshmallows with skewers and place one marshmallow on top of each cookie. Let cool/dry and decorate with yellow icing.

Easy Pumpkin Cookies

This is the easiest and yummiest recipe for Pumpkin Cookies you'll ever find! The original recipe calls for spice cake but I made it with chocolate cake and that was even Yummier! MMMMMmmmmm Chocolate!

Here's what you'll need: 1 box cake mix (any flavor), 1 small can pumpkin pie filling, chocolate chips and walnuts (optional).






Here's what you do:
Combine the cake mix and pumpkin. Then add any chocolate chips and/or nuts to taste. I added a half bag of chocolate chips and a handful of walnuts.
* Sorry I forgot to add before: cook at 350 for 12-15 minutes.

Spider Web Sugar Cookies

Here's what you'll need: sugar cookies (made), frosting, black icing and toothpics





Here's what you do:
Frost the cookie with the vanilla frosting, and with the black icing make a dot in the middle and circles around it (like a target) with each circle getting bigger and going around the next. Then take a toothpic, start in the center dot and drag it out to the edge of the cookie, repeat all around the cookie until it looks like the picture above.

VARIATIONS: can be used on a large cake or small cupcakes. I remember as a kid my mom did that on a large cake and put a ding dong spider on top. It was so cute!

Dirt Cups

This one is always a kids favorite!Here's what you'll need: chocolate pudding, oreo cookies (crushed), gummy worms






Here's what you do:
Prepare the pudding and separate it into individual cups to set up. Once the pudding is ready, crush the oreos and spread on top of the pudding. Place the worms in the oreos (dirt).

Pizza Cookies

Feeling like some pizza but would rather have a cookie? Here's the answer to that problem! Pizza Cookies!

Here's what you'll need: sugar cookies, frosting, toppings (crasins, coconut, mini m&m's)





Here's what you do:
Cook some refrigerator sugar cookies (or make your own favorite recipe). Color vanilla frosting red and spread on the cookies. Sprinkle with your favorite toppings!

*FYI* you can use a pizza cutter to talk to your child about whole, half, etc.

Oreo Spiders

What you'll need: Oreo's (I used 'nilla), Pretzel Sticks, Mini m&m's






Count 8 pretzel sticks and lay them out like spider legs, place a cookie on top and don't forget two eyes! Can you see them smiling at you??

Easy S'mores

What you'll need: Fudge Stripes Cookies, Marshmallow Creme









Spoon some Marshmallow creme onto a Fudge Stripes Cookie and place another on top - super easy!

Cookie Turkey

What you'll need: Fudge Stripes Cookies, Nutter Butter Cookies, Mini m&m's, icing.







Stick a Nutter Butter cookie on a Fudge Stripe Cookie with icing. Add m&m eyes and decorate with icing. You could even add a candy corn for a beak instead.

Nutter Butter Ghosts

What you'll need: Nutter Butter cookies, white chocolate, mini m&m's






Melt the chocolate, dip cookies in the chocolate, place chocolate covered cookies on tin foil or wax paper, place m&m's for eyes and wait to set up.
Yield: 1 bag of white chocolate chips makes about 10-12 ghosts.