by Sandra | December 18th, 2009
Time to bake cookies and do all of the traditional family rituals for the rest of the week. Jason is getting very anxious to get his cookies made for Santa. The kid’s internal calendar and clock doesn’t miss a beat. I want to thank all of you for your tremendous support! I can’t begin to express what a difference it has made in my own enthusiasm for quilting again. Small gestures can make an enormous difference. Thank you!
Jason and I would like to share our family recipe for his Santa cookies:
Jason’s Favorite Peanut Butter Cookies
Preheat the oven to 375°
Blend sugars together with an electric mixer on medium speed. Add butter and mix to form a grainy paste. Add eggs blending in one at a time. Add peanut butter and vanilla and mix until light and fluffy.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to peanut butter mixture and mix at low speed until just mixed.
Using a small cookie scoop, drop balls of dough onto a cookie sheet. With a wet fork, gently press a crisscross pattern on the top of the cookies.
Tip: in order to keep the dough from sticking to the fork, dip the fork in water after each cookie is flattened.
Bake 10-11 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown. Don’t over cook and immediately transfer the cookies to a cool surface with a spatula.
Wishing you the best for the new year,
all contents ©2009 Sandra Leichner all rights reserved
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you and your family !
Hope Santa is goo to you !
Thanks for everything you do . It means more to me than I can say !
Happy Ho-Ho to all of you and yours – enjoy the season with your families and friends – we’ll be back at “the usual” soon enough! Blessings, ME
Thank you so much for sharing so much with us. Reading your blog has become a special part of my quilting life, and much more fun than any of the magazines.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
Judy B
PS I’d love a cookie! We call them biscuits or more usually bikkies down under!
Sandra, may your holiday be full of love and laughter.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. Thank you Sandra for sharing your amazing talent through your blog. I cannot wait for all the new wonders you will share in 2010 (especially your first book)! After Santa has dropped off your tone on tone, can he please stop at my house????
Thank you so much for all you share with us. Your kindness and generosity and attention to detail is beyond compare.
My husband likes to bake peanut butter cookies and I will tell him that next time he must use Jason’s version.
I wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a happy nad healthy New Year.
Have a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! I would like to thank you, too. All you have done for every appliquer is amazing! I am so grateful I took an applique class with someone I had never heard of. I wanted to go to Quilter’s Escape with friends. I ended up with one of the best teachers I have ever experienced and a new friend! I look forward to Empty Spools! Believe me, I am planning on signing up and looking forward to it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Wow, I go away for a little while and you all leave such humbling and touching comments. I have been playing on some great stuff (The brain won’t shut off even though I am trying to play outside the sewing room!) I will share all when the calendar turns to 2010. I know, I am being a tease! You will love it –I promise.
Dearest Sandra – Thank you for being so wonderful and open. Until I found your blog (thanks to Diane G.) I thought I was the only applique geek out there – especially all handwork with machine quilting. You have truly inspired me to do my own thing and trust my own instinct. I am re-energized each time I read your blog.
Merry Christmas and Happy, Healthy New Year! I wish you and yours all the best for 2010 (can’t wait for your book).
Best stitches,
Mercy