Santa's Eggless Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 C. sugar
1/2 C. butter, softened
2 T. milk
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 C. all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 pinch salt

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 F, 180 C

Combine butter and sugar in a bowl, mix with a mixer until it's light and fluffy, about 45 seconds.

Add vanilla and milk to butter/sugar mixture, you can be flexible with the amount of vanilla you use.  Almond extract might also be good, although we haven't tried it.

In a small, separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt.

Combine dry ingredients into the wet and mix until blended.  Add a little flour if dough is too sticky.

Chill dough for up to 30 minutes.

Now, you can do a couple of things,


* Roll dough out on parchment paper, cut with cookie cutters and pull away the scrap, re-roll and cut until dough is gone. (Or eat the scraps!)  Be sure to leave about 1/2" between cookies because they will spread.

* Hand roll dough into balls, dip one side in sugar and place sugar side up on parchment, use a glass or your hand to flatten to about 1/2" thickness.

Bake for 8-10 minutes, until bottom is lightly golden.  Cookies will not be browned.

These are our Santa cookies and are perfect for frosting and decorating.  I use basic powdered sugar and milk icing with food coloring.  Delicious!

Contaminated Foods and Substitutions

*ONGOING LIST*


Contains Peanuts:

Granola Bars- Kudos, Nature Valley, etc.

Boston Baked Beans candy contains peanuts.

Snickers

Baby Ruth

Reese’s – any of them

Butterfinger (peanut BUTTERfinger. I learned this one the hard way!)

Substitutions:

Nutella – made with hazelnuts and cocoa, delicious!

Sunbutter – made with sunflower seeds, delicious!

Almond Butter

Contains Eggs:

Mayonnaise – substitute Nayonnaise (found in health food section)

Ice Cream – always check ingredients. Breyers and Dreyer’s are good choices, but always check.

Imitation Crab – no California Roll sushi, which also contains mayo anyway

Candy frosting letters and numbers for birthday cakes contain egg whites.

Milky Way candy bars contain egg whites.

3 Musketeers candy bars contain egg whites.

Junior Mints candy contains egg whites.

Toblerone contains egg whites.

Chocolate Fudge and Cookies 'n Cream Pop Tarts contain egg whites, other flavors do not.

Hostess, Little Debbie – almost all have egg white, DingDongs, Twinkies, Swiss Rolls, etc. Check all Hostess and Little Debbie ingredients!

Substitutions:

Tuna sandwich – use Nayonnaise instead of Mayo.

Add tuna to mac ‘n cheese.

Tofu is a great source of protein and can be used in a lot of ways; fried, raw with a bit of soy sauce on it, or whatever you like (hoisin, teriyaki,) cubed in soup such as miso or saimin (ramen.)

Tuna Melts

Bread
Butter
Cheese (Cheddar, American, whatever you like)
Tuna
Nayonnaise

Mix tuna and Nayonnaise.  Make just like a grilled cheese!