Christmas…
by: kristin
1. Favorite Christmas Cookie (if you include the recipe, you get extra credit): I am really excited about Donna’s SourCream cookies I made yesterday!!( I still have to bake them) But as of today (and I am not sure if this is a traditional christmas cookie) those peanut butter kind with fork prints on them–my grandma always made those!
2. Favorite Christmas Song: All I want for Christmas is you…-Mariah Carey Christmas, or O come all ye faithful
3. Favorite Christmas tradition: Making candy decorated houses at my grandmas. My grandpa made us wooden houses. We would all bring tons of candy and we would frost our house with icing. Then we would use candy to decorate it and cookies for the roof, and ice cream cones for trees… Then me and my cousins would eat candy until we puked. Then my grandparents always ordered us pizza and we got to sleep over!
4. Favorite Christmas memory:When I came home from Christmas in Illinois on New Years Eve and Rob asked me to marry him (that counts right?- even though its kind of considered New Years Eve?)
5. All I want for Christmas is… a baby to pop out of my belly so I can sleep at night-oh wait-a baby to pop out of my belly so I can never sleep again! 
December 15th, 2005 at 8:57 am
NORWEGIAN SOUR CRÈME COOKIES
Donna Anderson
1 cup sugar
1 ¾ cups butter
1 egg
½ pint sour cream
4 cups flour
1 tsp. Soda
½ tsp. Baking powder
½ tsp. Salt
½ tsp. Vanilla flavoring
½ tsp. Almond flavoring
Frost with Powdered Sugar Icing
In large mixing bowl cream sugar and butter. Add unbeaten egg and sour cream. In medium mixing bowl combine flour, soda, baking powder and salt with a wire whisk. At slow speed gradually add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla and almond flavorings. Place dough in covered dish and chill in refrigerator 1 – 2 days.
Remove from refrigerator and turn out onto floured surface. Lightly dust rolling pin. Roll out to desired thickness. These are great thick or thin. Cut in desired shapes. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake in preheated 350 degree oven 10-15 minutes until light brown. Remove to cooling rack. Can frost and decorate.
Frosting:
1 pkg. Powdered sugar
¼ cup softened butter
½ tsp. Vanilla flavoring
½ tsp. Almond flavoring
food coloring of choice
Cream or milk added gradually to spreading consistency.
These are delicious cookies whether made thick or thin. The powdered sugar icing holds in the freshness and makes them look pretty. I usually sprinkle them with colored sprinkles before the frosting dries. These are great for Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter, etc. They freeze well too.