I teased these cookies on Facebook and Instagram yesterday, so it seemed mean not to share the recipe today. We are getting into birthday season again. The birthday girl has not requested Shrimp and Olive pie this year as her birthday meal, but instead insists on chicken with peanut sauce. Good thing I already know how to make that. The cake she requested was a little more complicated. That’ll be a future post. But in addition to all of that, she also wanted a treat to take to her friends. I decided on these simple sugar cookies.
Our sweet girl loves her bugs.
On my kids’ birthdays I like to tell them what was happening at this time on the day they were born. At breakfast, I told her how our friends were coming over to watch her brothers and got lost on the way to our house. She fills in the bits of the day she “remembers”. “And I was in your belly and I was kicking you, saying ‘let me out!'” I remember the kicking, but I don’t remember her saying that.
“At this moment on the day you were born,” I tell her, “I was walking the halls with your daddy trying to get labor started.”
I try to leave out the scary bits. Like the part where they told me I had to stay in bed because the cord was around her neck and her heart rate dropped when I walked. I don’t tell her how scared I was because of how small she was.
“At this moment on the day you were born,” I say, “Daddy and I were watching Project Runway and waiting.”
And then around 3 PM, I tell her, “This is the time when I knew you were ready to make your entrance. Your daddy was standing next to me nearly vibrating with excitement. I had never seen anyone that excited in my life.”
“And then we saw you. You were so tiny. Your brothers said you were funny looking because you were so long and skinny and your eyes were so big, but we thought you were beautiful.”
At breakfast, her daddy showed her pictures of herself as a baby. She was overcome at how loved she is and had to throw her arms around her brother more than once. “Aw…this is you holding me. I love you.”
She laughed at herself wearing nothing but a diaper and fairy wings in the garden.
We smiled at her on the playground with curly pigtails and a sweaty face.
When it was just me and the boys, we were a complete picture. Then along came my husband and started adding details that we didn’t realize were missing. Then the girl was born and splashed glitter all over everything. Glitter may be impossible to clean up and be bad for the oceans, but it makes everything it touches sparkle in a small way. That’s our bug loving girl.
The Recipe:
Sugar Cookies
2 1/4 cup sifted flour 1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt 2 eggs, beaten
2 tsp BP 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup shortening 1 TB milk
Sift, flour, salt and baking powder together. Cream shortening and sugar together, add eggs and vanilla, then add sifted ingredients and milk. Roll out. Sprinkle with sugar and bake on baking sheet in moderate oven (375°) for12 minutes. Makes 2 1/2 dozen cookies.
For more birthday recipes check out Devil’s Food Cake and Apple Pecan Pie.
These look delicious and I will definitely try this recipe soon! Thanks for sharing!
They were a big hit with the kids at school and so easy. If your photography skills are anything to go by, I’m sure you could decorate them beautifully.
Happy Birthday, Baby Glitter Girl!! Love her !! And these cookies look amazing!!!!!!
I’m not going to say the cookies were more of a highlight than the cake, but they really were.
What a wonderful tribute to your children, especially your daughter. Beautifully written.
And these cookies are adorable!
Thank you! We’re pretty fond of our kids. I like when I’m able to pull off what they want for their birthdays.