Well, I guess my food obsession all started with Halloween. We used to carve all of the guts out of our pumpkins and then our mother would come through with a large spoon and knife and thin its walls out. This extra thinning of the walls would become pumpkin pie along with a side of roasted pumpkin seeds. As for the jackolantern.....well, I don't recall. But, the pie was delicious. One Halloween came very quickly after a move. The house was full of boxes and my parents didn't have time for halloween costumes what with getting food on the table, our new private school, Shelly's new Gloria Vanderbelt jeans....you get the picture...this was the year we did without...sigh. I grabbed some boxes, a little glue, and the pink paint leftovers from our kitchen and morphed into an ice cream truck. Not just any ice cream truck, a HAUNTED ice cream truck. You put the candy in the trunk! That's right. I had a bag by my butt that you put candy into. My poor sister under the same dilemma grabbed some funky bathrobe/feather boa combination and attempted to be a movie star. I sometimes laugh when I think of the next door lady asking her if she was supposed to be Dolly Parton. Hey Shell, do you remember that? Ahhhh, your pre-teen over-developed angst....heh heh. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
-Robin
Butter Cookies
1 cup soft butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
3 tsp flavoring ( vanilla, almond, lemon, etc.)
3 cups sifted flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
Mix butter, sugar, and egg. Stir in flavoring. In a seperate bowl mix flour and baking powder. Stir in butter mixture till it is all incorporated. Chill dough 1 hour. Roll out to desired thickness...these make great thin or thick cookies...whatever you prefer. We like them thick but it's up to you. Cut in desired shapes.
Bake for 5-7 mins at 425 degrees.
After they have completely cooled decorate with your favorite icing. The canned stuff works great...if you use the stuff in the can, let them sit out overnight so that the next day you can stack them as the icing will harden.
I love it! A haunted ice cream truck is the best costume ever.
Posted by: Kimberly Ann | Wednesday, 31 October 2007 at 11:03 AM
You are so creative Robin and you had to do without because of Shelly's new jeans, poor thing!! Those cookies are my favorite!!
Posted by: Becky | Wednesday, 31 October 2007 at 02:53 PM