Cookie making with kids is not for the faint of heart, y’all. The flour on the walls, the sprinkles in your hair, the buttery fingers all over your bar stools, the stopping every five minutes to wash multiple sets of hands. It’s a mess. It takes a lot longer than just baking cookies on your own. But the time together with the littles in the kitchen is sooo worth it! For the New Year’s holiday, the girls and I make New Year’s cookies for a Happy New Year gift for friends and neighbors.
Usually, we make Christmas cookies to drop off to the neighbors before Christmas or we make cinnamon rolls to drop off to neighbors for New Year’s Day.
Last summer, I bought some cookie cutters with number shapes at Walmart and thought they would be cute for a New Year cookies recipe.
Because we only needed five cookies per gift, we were able to make a lot of gifts (12!) from one batch of our New Year’s cookies.
Find a Good Recipe for New Year’s Cookies
For your New Year cookies recipe, I suggest using my butter cookies recipe. It is our go-to cookie recipe. I call them butter cookies because so much butter is used. Some might refer to them as sugar cookies.
Packaging Your Happy New Year Gift
As for packaging your Happy New Year gift, I suggest placing the four number cookies and a star on a plain paper plate. If you have a different cookie cutter that represents New Year’s better than a star, use it! The star is the best generic cookie cutter I have to represent the holiday. If the family you are delivering to has a lot of members, just add extra star cookies to the gift.
We dress our cookie plate up with some leftover paper shreds from Christmas. We could get more fancy with the packaging. Since the girls help, I keep it simple.
We are blessed with some really great neighbors, and we like to show our appreciation. As far as neighbors go, we have some of the best!
For 2017, my blogging goal was to venture more into simple video with our Cooking with Kids series. We kicked off the first video attempt of 2017 with this New Year cookies recipe.
These cookies may not be shaped and decorated to bakery perfection, but they are made with a whole lotta love and enthusiasm! The girls have a blast delivering these New Year’s cookies to our neighbor’s homes. I think it is perfect to give a Happy New Year gift to neighbors rather than at Christmas since so many of us are blessed with an (over)abundance of goodies at Christmas. A week later, most of us are ready for another treat.
http://https://youtu.be/7WAXnViIUb0
Happy New Year to all of you! I’ll leave you with my favorite New Year’s quote of all time…
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
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