OK here's my easy Christmas Cookie. This one is so easy I don't even get out the recipe when I make it each year. The best part is for us grandparents, I can make the dough ahead of time and put it in the refrigerator and then when the grandchildren come over they will help cut out and sprinkle the cookies. 3/4 cup butter softened 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tbs. milk 1 tsp. vanilla 2 3/4 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt cream butter, add sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla, and beat well. Combine flour with salt and baking soda, add to butter sugar cream mixture and mix well. Cover dough and let it rest at least four hours in the refrigerator. Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes. makes about 6 dozen depending on size of cookie cutters. Here is a link that might be useful: Cooking with grandpa

This is the absolute easiest and best cookie for little kids to make and decorate. Have been making them since I was a kid -- original recipe came from an old Betty Crocker cookbook, I think (if not BC, then Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook). Stir-n-Drop Sugar Cookies Beat w/ fork until well blended: 2 eggs Stir in: 2/3 cup salad oil 2 tsp vanilla 1 tsp grated lemon rind Blend in until mixture thickens: 3/4 cup sugar Stir together and mix in: 2 cups flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt Preheat oven to 400F. Drop by teaspoonful about 2" apart on ungreased baking sheet. Flatten w/ greased bottom of glass dipped in sugar. Bake until a delicate brown, 8-10 min. Remove immediately from baking sheet. Makes about 3 dozen 3" cookies. NOTE: When I made these w/ my nieces as christmas cookies, I would divide the dough into two or three bowls and add food coloring to each, then mix in well. Then, rather than flattening the cookies with a sugar-dipped glass, I'd just flatten/level them a bit and give the kids all different toppings to pile on the cookies.... colored sugars, dots and sprinkles, durgees, and whatever you have. It all works great and they're really pretty considering how little effort they take! These are a good-tasting cookie -- not too sweet. Everyone always likes them!

I just tried this one a few weeks ago. Very easy to make. (Taken from Southern Plate website). Tiger Butter Print Ingredients 1 package ( 24 ounces) white almond bark ½ cup crunchy peanut butter 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips (Milk chocolate will work fine too) Instructions Line a rimmed baking sheet with waxed paper. Set aside In large mixing bowl, break up almond bark as best you can (or you can just toss the whole thing in). Place bowl in microwave for about one minute. Stir well. Microwave at 30-45 second intervals, stirring after each, until bark is melted and smooth. Stir in peanut butter until melted and well blended. Spread out onto waxed paper lined baking pan. Place chocolate chips in a small bowl and microwave at 30-45 second intervals, stirring after each, until smooth and melted. Drop dollops of chocolate onto peanut butter mixture in pan. Swirl with a knife. Place baking sheet in refrigerator until hardened or allow to harden completely at room temp. Break into pieces and store in an airtight container.

Gen B, the fabricators knew we were changing ranges. Unfortunately, the delivery time for the range was much longer than expected. My question is... does it really matter though. Shouldn't the cut be straight either way. What if down the line, say in 5 years or so, you wished to change the range and they didn't make that particular model any longer? If they would have cut it straight it would've have solved a multitude of problems down the line. When the fabricator was here last tuesday he didn't want to say it, however, he alluded to the fact that the overhang on the old range provided a "safety net". I have a feeling that they chipped the side of the cut out when they were fabricating (because it's such a soft stone) and then decided they had to cut it like this to even it out. After he argued with me incessantly stating that "this is how they do it "standard procedure to cut the back smaller and the front larger", he then went on to say he followed the lines of the cabinet. I believe wholeheartedly that once he realized I wasn't buying the "this is how we always do it" story, he then decided to try a different angle (no pun intended) and blame the cabinet people. It was very upsetting. No apology, no accountability and no phone call back to discuss what they are willing to do.