Fried Chicken and Cheesesteaks

What to do on a rainy day with four young children to entertain?   (I was borrowing a couple of them for the morning)    Make cookies!     We didn't have quite enough time to make rolled cookies, wait for them to cool and then frost/sprinkle them, so I needed a recipe that added the sprinkles before baking.    These also TASTE very, very good.    Soft Sugar Cookies ~ 2 dozen  2 cups  all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 sticks butter, softened 1 cup granulated sugar  1 T brown sugar 1 large egg 2 t double strength vanilla  Preheat oven to 375 standard/350 convection.   Whisk flour with baking powder and salt.    In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar.    Then add in egg and vanilla (use the good stuff).       Much like when making peanut butter cookies, roll balls of dough in sugar (ma...

the JOY cookies, stocking and star above are from this recipe. Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 tsp salt 2/3 cup sugar 2 sticks cold butter, cut into chunks 1 large egg yolk 1 1/2 tablespoons light cream (or half and half or heavy - I've used all three at different times) 2 teaspoons vanilla extract Mix flour, salt, sugar together in bowl of mixer or food processor.      Add butter and mix until it's a crumbly consistency.     Whisk together yolk, cream and vanilla, then knead into butter/flour mixture.   Divide dough in half and roll out each piece between two sheets of wax paper or parchment.    Chill on a baking sheet in your fridge, on the porch in December or in the freezer for even a few weeks.   Preheat oven to 325 and line baking pans with parchment.  Cut desired shapes with cookie cutters, re-rolling and re-chilling scraps.      Bake about...