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Shape and Bake Cookies

Chanukah is in the air!
This cookie dough is simple and delicious!! Take out some Chanukah cookie cutters and go to town and shape those cookies!! Surprise family and friends with something special this Chanukah!!

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup of Sugar
  • 1/2 Cup of Marj 
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Cups of Flour 
  • 2 tsp of Baking powder
  • Decorations: (opt.)
  • Plain or colorful sugar
  • Sugar and Cinnamon 
  • Mini chocolate chips 
  • Candy sprinkles
  • Chocolate sprinkles 

Directions

  1. Cream sugar and margarine until thick.
  2. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until fluffy, about five minutes.
  3. Gradually add remaining ingredients. Mix to form a dough.
  4. Wrap the dough in a plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight for easier handling.
  5. Take a portion of the dough and roll on a floured board to quarter inch thickness on all sides.
  6. Cut out with different shapes and place on a  cookie sheet.
  7. Sprinkle with any of the  decoration options.
  8. Remaining dough can be reused to shape more cookies🍪! Yum!!
  9. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes or until edges become golden.

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Enjoy these shots from the Chanukah Party 2023!

Chanukah is in the air!
This cookie dough is simple and delicious!! Take out some Chanukah cookie cutters and go to town and shape those cookies!! Surprise family and friends with something special this Chanukah!!

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Humanity, with all its remarkable achievements and intellectual prowess, remains inherently bounded by certain limitations. Even the most brilliant scientists or those who possess double Ivy League degrees in engineering find themselves reliant on professionals like accountants for tax assistance and doctors for medical diagnoses. This interdependence is a prevalent theme throughout the human lifecycle, vividly exemplified when a newborn depends entirely on their parents for sustenance and safety. As the infant matures and evolves, they embark on their unique journey towards success and personal development.

Danielle Gyles did not grow up Jewish. In fact, she grew up in the small Colorado town of Pueblo, where there is not a large Jewish population. “I love my hometown,” Danielle explains, “But it’s definitely one of those small towns that people don’t really understand. It was a blue-collar town for a very long time, and when the mill went under a lot of people lost their jobs. For a long time the city was scrambling trying to figure out how to keep their citizens.”

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