We pulled the Easy Bake Oven out last night to make some cookies.  It was a Christmas gift for my daughter last year.  I’m happy to say that it’s gotten a fair amount of use.  We keep it in a room near the kitchen and I store the little pans and tools in the kitchen.  I also bought a cookbook called Baking with Mommy Cookbook.  It’s got easy recipes that taste good.  I refuse to buy the expensive mixes.

Sometimes, we bake a small portion of whatever we’re having for dinner in the EBO.  We’ve done Nachos, baked spaghetti, cheese tortillas, pizza…  It’s a fun way to spend time together.

The Snowball Cookie recipe is adapted from Baking with Mommy Cookbook.  Here’s what you’ll need:

• 3 Tbs. powdered sugar
• 2 Tbs. butter, softened (didn’t make it in the picture)
• 5 Tbs. flour
• 1/8 tsp. cream of tartar
• 1/8 tsp. baking soda
• shake of cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp. vanilla
• enough water to make dough
• extra powdered sugar

Combine all the ingredients except the extra powdered sugar.  Go easy adding the water.  It doesn’t take much.  Stir it all together with a spoon until it’s well combined.

Roll the dough into balls.  Our dough was too soft to roll, so we just dropped them from a spoon.  Roll each cookie dough ball in powdered sugar.  Bake for 6-10 minutes.  The book says 10, but we found 6 minutes was enough.  I think this may depend on the size of your cookies.