Woo Hoo Grandma - we can never have too much sugar cookie icing - glitter - and fun

Family Traditions Are A Sweet Help In Long Distance Grandparenting

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Family traditions with grandkids are always fun. When the traditions are with your long distance grandkids it can help create extra special family memories that seem to transcend the distance between you. One special tradition my long distance grandkids and I enjoy every time we get together is baking and decorating easy sugar cookies, complete with a wide variety of cookie cutters, frosting, icing, sprinkles, confetti, and anything else granny nanny can find.

Woo Hoo Grandma - we can never have too much sugar cookie icing - glitter - and fun

Since I am not working in my own kitchen, and time is often short, I take the uber short method and, instead of making one of the great sugar cookie recipes from scratch, I "cheat" and buy PIllsbury slice n bake cookie dough. (Notice the pretty red icing – lovely for Rednesday.)

Baking and decorating sugar cookies for grandparents and their grandchildren is a ton of fun

In past years, the grand kids and I enjoyed rolling out the sugar cookie dough, cut  it into different shapes with cute holiday cookie cutters, then adding frosting or icing to the cookies and decorating the cookies with glitter, sprinkles, etc. The problem was, the grandkids loved to put on a TON of all those goodies and it all morphed together into one gigantic, "hard candy" sugar cookie. It was tasty, intriguing, and a pain to clean up.

after the grandkids finished decorating the easy sugar cookies and then baked them they had a stained glass effect and the pans were HARD to clean

Last year, a good friend pointed out I might want to have the grandkids try decorating the sugar cookies AFTER they had baked. Oh my! Guess I should have gotten a good cookbook full of easy holiday cookie recipes and they would have also taught me how to make the sugar cookies. Then again, we had so much fun, even if we weren't doing it quite the right way. 🙂

One tip for how to make sugar cookies with grandkids - pour some of the sprinkles into a bowl - then they have some left over for future cookie decorating projects

It is AMAZING how much neater these cookies looked doing them the "right way." I did learn, though, that I need to bake the cookies up earlier. Otherwise, you are running around like a rooster with his head chopped off trying to get them all baked, cooled, and ready while excited little grandkids are watching and waiting for the big moment when the cookie decorating can proceed. Fortunately they were very patient with me.

After decorating the sugar cookies - my grandkids loved adding confetti and cinnamon sprinkles on top of the cookie frosting and icing

All in all, either way, we've had a ton of fun over the years with this sweet, tasty and relatively easy tradition of decorating sugar cookies. And the fun family memories are a joy months after, especially since my handy dandy and easy to use digital camera does such a sweet job of saving them for me. Making this a fun post to share with Sweet Shot Tuesday. 🙂

What fun family memories come from decorating these easy sugar cookies - as my easy to use digital camera can attest to

P.S. If you have more time then me and are looking for a great cookbook full of sugar cookie recipes from scratch along with ideas for decorating the cookies from frosting and icing to unique cookie cutters, I found the most intriguing book –  Cookie Craft: From Baking to Luster Dust, Designs and Techniques for Creative Cookie Occasions by Janice Fryer and Valerie Peterson. I especially loved how they took simple cookie cutters and turned them into unique cookie cutters ideas by thinking outside the box. And, oh my, the frosting ideas were gorgeous. GREAT for older grandchildren!

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Comments

  1. That has always been a fun and great way to spend quality time with the kiddos.

  2. It’s obvious that everyone had fun making and baking those works of art!

    RED AND YELLOW LULLABY

    Red is the color of cherries, not cheese;
    Yellow the backs of the sweet honeybees;

    Red the fair hair of the Derry Town maid;
    Yellow the yolk of the brown egg fresh-laid;

    Red are the wounds of the sun going down;
    Yellow the daisies beloved by the clown;

    Rainbows of colors, delighting the eye—
    Yellow and scarlet for this lullaby.

    © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher

    Red and Yellow Rooster

  3. My favorite dessert of all would have to be cookies. I Love sugar cookies and cookies in any form, for that matter. I love the pictures that you shared here. Happy Rednesday.

    • Robert
    • July 20, 2011

    Looks Great!! That`s just so lovely! nice work..

  4. Hi Kaye! Nothing beats making sugar cookies, especially from scratch – whether you make them with grandkids, kids, neighbors, or alone! 🙂

  5. Sugar cookies are so much fun and the memories made while baking them and decorating is what matters. Oh, and the taste way more important than the look. I’m definitely grabbing one. 😉 Hope you have your Christmas post ready! Can’t wait.

  6. I baked cookies with my kids & now with my grandkids. it is an awesome way to spent quailty time with them .

  7. Isn’t it great, Myrna 🙂 I am actually better at it with my grandkids, thanks to the miracle of slice and bake cookies – definitely makes for easy sugar cookies crafts for the grand kids and us seniors 🙂

  8. Hi Marcia – I’m up and running and enjoying Christmas and carols and the frosty weather – in my dreams 🙂 Have a blessed and Merry White Christmas in July. 🙂

  9. Hi Sue, I do love cooking from scratch – but I have to confess, I love the easy slice and bake sugar cookies as well – makes for fun and quick cookie crafts for the kids and us seniors, especially when we are short on time on a visit. 🙂 But when I get a chance to enjoy the home baked kind, you are SOOOOOOO right! 🙂

  10. Thanks Robert 🙂

  11. Thanks Lola, I am with you, cookies, along with cake are my two fave desserts. My waistline might do better if I didn’t, but oh, they are so tasty 🙂

  12. Thanks Teacher – and thanks for another cute poem. Loved the colors in it 🙂

  13. Amen, LaVoice! 🙂 Lots of fun, indeed! 🙂

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