I checked the freezer.
We were out of ice cream.
And it was an ice cream kinda day.
I eat ice cream most days.
But especially on my bad days.
The tough days.
The cry-till-your-eyes-are-puffy days.
Necessity breeds invention.
And I needed a major soul-nourishing treat.
Realizing that large doses of sugar consumption should be included.
I turned to my Gramma's famous sugar cookie recipe.
But yesterday I was lazy.
Like....really lazy.
I didn't want to put the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.
I didn't want to flour a cutting board and roll the dough out.
I didn't care about cutting out shapes.
I just wanted to eat some cookies.
A lot of them.
Now.
Can you tell I'm really big into instant gratification?
Just blame it on my generation. Generation X, that is.
So here's my solution:
I whipped up the sugar-cookie dough.
Added in some green food coloring.
I scooped out the dough (about 1 rounded TBL) with my small Pampered Chef scoop.
I plopped it in a dish of sugar.
I proceeded to completely cover the ball of dough in sugar {mmmm...sugar}.
I then put each sugar-coated ball of dough onto my cookie sheet about 2" apart.
I pressed each ball of dough down so it was flat and about 1/2" thick.
(I used one of my fondant tools, but using the bottom of a drinking glass works just as well!)
(I used one of my fondant tools, but using the bottom of a drinking glass works just as well!)
I placed them in the oven and baked them for about 9 minutes.
(Your oven may cook differently than mine, so be sure to pop in on them every so often to check and adjust as needed.)
You want them to be **slightly** browned on the bottom.
Transfer to a cooling rack.
Now you could just eat them this way.
Which would be super lazy easy and just as yummy.
But that little leprechaun bit me.
and I decided it would be nice to go one step further.
I had some left over icing in the fridge from a birthday cake I just made the other day for a friend.
So I took it out of the fridge when I started making the cookies;
this way it would be the right consistency when I would eventually need to use it.
I kept it in the plastic zip-loc bag I had originally stored it in,
snipped a small portion off the corner
and used that as my "pastry-bag".
I hand sketched a four-leaf clover
(you could just print off one from your computer's clip-art collection, too)
and cut it out (see picture below).
I used it as a guide to draw a clover onto each cookie.
And, voila!
My sugar therapy fix come to life:
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
66° Rainy and wet.
