Well my little big girl was not all that excited about going to school. She wants to stay home with mommy. So to try and get her in the "festive" school mood, we did the following:
~ buy her a new princess lunch kit (her favorite)
~ show her her new princess backpack (courtesy of Auntie Lacey)
~Schedule her in for the same days as her cousin
~talk to her many times about how FUN preschool is
~make her the coolest, girliest, most decorative lunchbox cookies ever
Crossing my fingers that tomorrow will be a smooth day :)
This may look like a lot of work, (cuz it looks SO fab) but it's really not much more work than scooping out chocolate chip cookies (I'm really all about fast and easy, but delish!)
Lunchbox Envy Cookies *recipe courtesy of Jean Pare
They are a typical shortbread style cookie, but a bit sweeter, and much more fun to eat!
1 cup Butter
2/3 - 3/4 cup Icing Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1 1/2 cups Flour
Easy right?
- Preheat oven to 350〫
- Mix the butter and icing sugar together. Cream them.
- Add in the vanilla and flour.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Divide dough into 3 even sections.
- Put each section in a small bowl.
- Add corresponding colours and mix thoroughly. When mixing colours, begin by stirring with a spoon, but as it becomes mixed throughout, pull out of bowl and knead and roll the colour thoroughly into the dough (unless you want colourful hands!)
- Seperately, roll each coloured ball into a "rope" or "snake" or "log" (you may find it easier to roll these between 2 sheets of waxed paper)
- If your dough is too soft or sticky, throw the balls (squished down into a ball the size of the palm of your hand) throw it in the freezer for 8 minutes.
- Lay logs on a sheet of waxed paper and put in freezer for 8 minutes.
- Pull them out, and on the sheet of waxed paper, put two rolls on the bottom, and one on top, making a pyramid.
- Slice 3/4 - 1 inch thick.
- Lay on sheet of parchment
- Bake 8 mins convection, 11 mins conventional.
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