With my little cooks:
Last weekend I shared good times in the kitchen with my 2 Daughters under 11 and 7 years old. Both like the kitchen, the first is more inclined to desserts and the second prefers to venture with salty dishes. Even when they are very small and in a few opportunities we leave them in the kitchen, if we give them the opportunity to help by cutting some vegetables or preparing a salad, all under the care of their parents.
Lately I wanted to experiment in the area of the bakery and pastry and this time we have fun making some delicious dry pasta cookies. We shared the tasks, while one looked for the utensils and prepared the place in the kitchen room, the other looked for the ingredients and I went over the recipe to be sure of the ingredients and the preparation, so as not to make mistakes.
A team work:
They added and mixed the ingredients, they beat, they kneaded, they tasted and the ones that most excited them was placing the mixture in the form of cookies in the tray before I took them to the oven. Everything happened in an atmosphere of good humor, exchange of opinions and recommendations in order to obtain a perfect product but the best thing was that the moment was loaded with a lot of love between father and daughters. They can not imagine how happy they made me and I am sure that moments like these will mark their lives and remember them when they are adults.
Then I leave the recipe that will give them as for a kilogram of cookies, as well as instructions for preparation.
Dry Pasta Cookies
300 gr of butter
150 gr of Sugar
100 ml of milk
400 gr of wheat flour
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 Teaspoon of butter for the tray.
Preparation:
Beat the butter with the sugar until you see it creamy.
Add the milk and beat.
Add the flour, egg and vanilla.
Mix in an enveloping way with a spatula.
Have a previously greased tray.
With a sleeve or confectionary syringe make the shapes of cookies in the tray.
(can decorate with chocolate chips, candies or cinnamon)
Take to the oven for 20 minutes at 140 ° C.
And ready, to enjoy some crispy and exquisite homemade dry pasta cookies made with love ...