Holiday Cookie Recipe!

The Holidays are the perfect time to whip out old recipes and bake your heart out. From brownies to cakes to cookies, there are tons of different baked goods flying around everywhere. This season do something new and try out this recipe for the classic chocolate chip cookie. Decorate your cookies after they cool with edible glitter gels and frosting.

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups of all purpose flour

½ cup of sugar

2 tsp of baking powder

1 tsp of baking soda

1 tsp of vanilla extract

A stick of butter

1 egg

1 tsp of milk

¼ cup of shortening

3 handfuls of chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Take a mixing bowl and pour 2 ½ cups of all purpose flour, ½ cup of sugar, 2 tsp of baking powder, and 1 tsp of baking soda into the bowl.
3. Mix those ingredients together.
4. Add 1 tsp of vanilla extract and whisk what is in the bowl.
5. Add 1 stick of butter and 1 egg and then begin to knead the dough.
6. Pour 1 tsp of milk into the bowl and knead the milk into the dough.
7. Put ¼ cup of shortening in the mix and knead the dough
8. Knead 3 handfuls of chocolate chips into the dough.
9. Place small balls of the dough on a cookie sheet and for the holiday effect use cookie cutters to shape the dough.
10. Bake the cookies in the oven for 17-20 minutes.
11. Let the cookies cool when done for at least 5 minutes before beginning to decorate.

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Megan Downer

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Senior Megan Downer has been in the Blue and Gold since her freshman year and is now the newspaper’s Editor-In-Chief. Before coming to Malden High, she went to Ferryway for middle school. When Megan has any free time she likes to motivate herself to either read or write. Writing for her is an “outlet for raw emotions” which is what motivates her to pick up some paper and a pen and let the words flow. Megan’s other hobbies include hiking and being outside. She also enjoys watching shows such as Pretty Little Liars and One Tree Hill. She is part of Malden High’s varsity field hockey team as lucky number 7. If she could only eat one meal for the rest of her life it would “probably [be] some good chicken, mac and cheese and a biscuit.” and if she had to wear only one color for the rest of her life, she would choose maroon or black because it “goes with everything.” After high school, her goals are to finish college, become a successful writer and to go into a career that helps others.

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