Sugar Cookie Recipe

                                                    Mom's Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of butter( two sticks)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 2 1/4  cup of flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda

      Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees. While the oven is heating up I ran to the cabinet to get a pan. I got the butter and greased up the pan, so the cookies will not stick to the bottom of the pan. Butter works better than oil to grease the bottom of the pan. After I greased the pan I make my way over to the fridge to get the ingredients to prepare the dough for the cookies. My mom made up a song when I was a little kid to help me remember the ingredients, but I can't remember that well now. I'm glad I have the ingredients written down on a note card, or I probably wouldn't be able to make the cookies properly.
 
     When I made my way to the fridge I got all the ingredients I needed to prepare the dough. I got out the butter, eggs, and baking soda. I went to the pantry to get the rest of the ingredients. I got the sugar, vanilla, and the flour. After getting all the ingredients finally together I got a big mixing bowl to mix them together. I used the special mixing bowl me and my mom used every time we made these cookies together when I was little. The mixing bowl has been in our family for a long time, and is very important to us.

     I remember when I was a kid my mom always said "Son when I am gone you will be the one to get the mixing bowl, and you will pass it down to your kids." This was one of me and my moms special family moments together.

      I got the ingredients, and started to measure out the ingredients. I needed one cup of sugar, one cup of butter(two sticks), one egg, one teaspoon of vanilla, two and one-fourth cup of flour, and one teaspoon of baking powder. I got all the ingredients in the bowl and was prepared to start mixing them. I got the mixer from the drawer, and started the mixing process. Every time I make sugar cookies I remember while my mom was mixing the ingredients she would always sign me songs. My mom has a great singing voice. When she sings she sounds like an angel. She would always sing me to sleep in her arms when i was a baby, and would stay asleep all night.

     By the time I got done mixing the ingredients the oven was pre-heated, and ready to go. I got the dough out of the bowl. The dough was so soft it felt like a cloud.
 
      My mom always told me " The dough were little clouds from the sky."

       I rolled the soft fluffy dough into balls to put them onto the pan to bake into soft, moist, cookies. I put the dough onto the pan, and slide the pan of cookies onto the bottom tray of the oven. We would always watch the cookies transform from their soft little clouds to the cookies we couldn't wait to sink our teeth into.

     When I put the cookies in I started the timer. You leave the cookies in for eight to ten minutes. It is really boring waiting for the cookies to get done, so I watched a little TV. When we waited on the cookies when I was a kid we would play little games to pass the time. We always have have fun in my house especially when we cook. When the cookies were done we each got a big glass of cold mile, and grabbed a handful of cookies. I always have a great time when I cook especially with my family. There are a lot of great memories in our house, and in our kitchen. We still cook as a family in our house and have a great time doing it. there is a lot of love and great cooking in our house.