CHOCO CHIPPY SUGAR COOKIES ALL DRESSED FOR CHRISTMAS

Oh i'm dreaming of a white christmas...

with every cookie in the store....
may i find em all cookies.....
to bake over milkies.....
and yeah gather 'em all recipes in the snow....

Oh ok ok,it began as a christmas jingle and then i rantled some gibberish trying to put across my journey of findin good cookies recipes and have 2 gorgeous cookie blogs to help me out...one is MEGANS BLOG....

.....a really cute blog that i fell in love with all her gorgeous cutie pie stuff and its thru her that i landed beautifully into a whole world of CHRISTMAS COOKIES-a fest ,a festival,an exchange and much more ,all thanx to SUSAN ..oh she's got a great biscotti too and thats my next bake....and i so love her site.....

Back to Megan,she's got a whole load of my type of cookie recipe-my type= crunchy crispy cookie's(i always bake 'em a bit longer yeah...

ANd have bookmarked quite a few here...(on megans cooking ie

I asked Megan about the crunchiness of this cookie,had to bother her though the cookie did look crunchy to me and she confirmed it(MUITISMO OBRIGADO MEGAN-thanx a ton in portuguese)...

Had to tweak it but w/o changing the basic recipe ofcourse-ie the toffee bits for one-couldn find any suitable so in wen some choco chip in double the quantity.I mixed in milk choco callets and 53% callets-

The other change is sparkling sugar ,i havent even found colored sugar yet-leave alone sparkling...

I did try making colored sugar but my color aint right i think.....

in the pic above& below the milky callets melted into the cookie...love that streak...

Thirdly i jus rolled 'em into balls @ random of different sizes and got around 22 cookies of different sizes and then a played with the dressing up...

HEre have gone the thumbalina way a bit by thumprinting and filling in jam and then dressing that up a bit with snow and silver balls....well let it snow
let it snow................let it snow was playing in the background.....
                                                           

HERE'S THE RECIPE ADAPTED FROM MEGANS COOKING BLOG
1)BEAT WELL
---1 cup sugar
---3/4th cup butter
---1 large egg
---1 tsp vanilla extract
2) ADD THE FOLLOWING SIFTED TOGETHER AND FOLD IN(honestly i never sift)
---2 cups flour
---1 1/2 tsp baking powder
---1/4 tsp soda
3)STIR IN 1 CUP OF MILK & DARK CHOCO CHIPS.

4)nOWS THE FUN...
roll into balls-roll a few in sugar-thumb print a few-use ur cookie press if u have one-sprinkle brown sugar.....the options are endless...
5)BAKE IN PRE-HEATED OVEN AT 180*C,TILL DONE.(10-15MINS)

6)COOL COMPLETLY BEFORE U DECORATE....

7)HERE'S HOW I PUT TOGETHER THE FROSTING-
take a little spoon and stir well some icing sugar,with some liquid of that hazlenut chocolate paste floats in(i have a tub of this turkish paste that has a lot of liquid)and little jus boiled water till u get the right consistency& yeah some vanilla extract and ur done...few drops of food color if u wan or leave it snow white....

And i was glad to put by my recent goodie bag to decorate these-ie some pink n white marshmellows and hersheys toppings and silver balls...
and yeah the exciting parts Jerri jus left in a sprinkle about sweet thursdays and got me all excited that thought i'll do my bit...with my heart...loving it....