American Baker in Germany

This recipe was one I adapted from someone else's recipe. It works perfectly to make stable vanilla-flavored cut out cookies. I actually don't call these sugar cookies simply because there's not that much sugar in them compared to most "sugar" cookie recipes. I feel sugar cookies are more about the taste and vanilla cookie cut outs are more about stability and the ability to cut them out in any shape you need. So, now that I've thoroughly confused everyone reading this, here's my recipe: Vanilla Cookie Cut-outs: 3 cups (375g) flour 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 cup (250g) butter 1 cup (200g) sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 tbsp vanilla sugar  First, cream your butter until soft and creamy.  Then add the sugar.  And the egg and vanilla. Then add the dry ingredients, half at a time.  When you add the second half, the dough will be quite dry. Finish it up by kneading in the last of the flour by hand. The dough should loo...

This time in dressing up our sheet cake, we're tasting the rainbow by decorating with Skittles. You could also do a similar set up with M&M's. So fun and super easy. The first thing you need is a lovely assistant! Just kidding. But my five-year-old helped me sort the colors of the Skittles. There are five colors: red, orange, yellow, green and purple.  Then you need a frosted sheet cake. You can frost it yourself, you can leave it in the pan and only frost the top or you can buy it frosted.  Next, we took the Skittles and pressed them onto the side of the cake around the bottom in rainbow order.  Sabrina did a great job sorting the Skittles.  Then, we pressed the same rainbow in a diagonal direction from the first rainbow.  We continued this pattern up the side of the cake.  The final row stuck out above the top of the cake slightly.  But isn't that beautiful?  Next, I made a flower in every corner. I placed a yellow ...