When life takes a detour and you are left with feelings of anger, take heed, there’s a productive place to turn.  Channel that frustration and dark feelings toward something truly productive.  Something positive.  Something delightful.  Something called cookies.

That’s right, kitchen based therapy taking all of that negative, placing it in a preheated oven, and transforming it into warm bites of happiness.  Can cookies solve all of the world’s problems?  No, but they can certainly help take the edge off.

 

“SEEING RED” NUTMEG COOKIES

“These eye popping cookies are a play on Snickerdoodles.  Don’t worry, however, these cookies are anything, but ordinary.  Fun to make and tasty to eat, these cookies hold their own.  With an intense nutmeg flavor and pleasing red appearance, these cookies have a soft interior, which is complemented by the exterior coating’s delicate crunch.  Plus, nutmeg is considered an aphrodisiac, so it’s difficult to find much wrong with this week’s baking adventure.  Enjoy.”

 

Cookies

¾ cup Sugar

½ cup Butter

1 Egg

½ teaspoon Vanilla

1½ cups Flour

½ teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar

Pinch of Salt

½ teaspoon Nutmeg

Coating

4 Tablespoons Red Decorating Sugar

½ teaspoon Nutmeg

 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Cream butter and sugar.

Mix in egg and vanilla.

Mix in flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, salt, and nutmeg.  Set aside.

Create the coating by mixing together the red decorating sugar and nutmeg.  Set aside.

Form the dough into 1½ diameter balls.

Roll each ball of dough in the coating to fully cover.

Place coated balls of dough on parchment paper lined baking sheets.

Bake for 10 minutes.  These cookies do not brown, so be careful not to overbake.

 

Makes about 22 cookies.

Revised Source:  “Nutmeg Noel Cookies” on www.tastebook.com.