Kids 'n Cookies

My kids LOVE to cook with me, and I'm thrilled my love for cooking is trickling onto them. We all love cookies, and when they started going to preschool, the involved mom I am, I was always making cookies for holidays/birthday/days that and in Y. Of course they wanted to be involved too, so I came up with the easiest way possible: Sprinkle cookies.

I start with bagged cookie mix. Pull aparts are a little too easy and not so fun, and I really don't like my Better Homes and Garden scratch recipe (too soft, too sugary, too something I don't like). If you have a great sugar cookie recipe from scratch, email me, I'd love to see it.

All you have to add is egg and butter, meaning they each get to pour something in the batter bowl, and we take turns mixing.

Pour some sprinkles into a small dish

Then take a cookie scooper and scoop out cookie balls. Plop em into their dish, and they get to push em down a bit to cover them in sprinkles.

Place them sprinkle side up on the cookie sheet, and bake away

Yummy, easy, and they get involved. Tada!

And since these cookies are for Nana, they need a pretty, and inexpensive wrapping...

Lunch bag + hole punch + pretty ribbon = wrapped cookies!