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Bake For Family Fun with Book and Bake...
Sugar Cookies Go Whole Wheat
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(Preschool to 2nd Grade Baking Activity)
In addition to delicious eating, Book and Bake learning activities promote reading, order, cause/effect relationships, story telling, American history, eye-hand coordination, visual math terms—whole, portion, fraction and recall.
Materials/Equipment Needed:
• Copy of recipe: Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies
• Ingredients for Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies
• Large bowl
• Electric mixer
• Dry measuring cups
• Measuring spoons
• Liquid measuring cup
Family Activities:
• Visit the library and find a book on cookies
• Read the recipe together.
• Wash hands and gather all ingredients and equipment
Baking Activity:
• Make the Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies
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Pick up books like these at the library:
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff; Illustrated by Felicia Bond.
May I Please Have a Cookie? by Jennifer Morris
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Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies
Makes 3 dozen cookies (@ $ 1.35 or 4 cents each)
Ingredients:
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Blend with whisk:
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons low fat milk 1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Roll cookies in: 1 to 2 tablespoons sugar OR sugar and cinnamon mixed
Directions: Preheat oven to 375 ° F.
- In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, cream together sugar and butter until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add egg, milk, extracts and mix well. Blend together flour, baking powder, soda, salt,
nutmeg and orange peel. Add to egg mixture and continue to mix until well blended.
- Shape dough into balls, using about 2 teaspoons each. Roll in granulated sugar. Place
2 inches apart on cookie sheet lined with parchment or lightly oiled with cooking spray.
- Flatten cookie slightly with bottom of a cup.
- Bake in a preheated 375°F oven for 9 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on pan for 2 minutes and transfer to wire rack.
Calories/Serving: Makes 3 dozen Cookies
Nutrition: One cookie provides approximately: 71 calories, 1 g protein, 11 g carbohydrates, 1 g fiber, 3 g fat (2 g saturated, 0 trans fat), 13 mg cholesterol, 2 mcg folate, 0 mg iron, 78 mg sodium.
Recipe provided by Kansas Wheat Commission—www.kswheat.com (Sharon Davis/Cindy Falk)
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