Personalized Cards and Cookie Give-Away

Personalized Cards and Cookie Give-Away

Personalized your cards with your favorite cookies. They are great and truly says a lot about you. You can bake different kinds of cookies you like or favorite cookies of the person you're sending it to. For this one, I  used the Ginger Molasses recipe.{Ginger Molasses Cookies}. This cookie last for 2 weeks, and keeps really well and pretty tasty as I may say so.;). This cookie appeals to everyone and who doesn't want a ginger molasses cookie? 

Personalized your stickers with your message; something short and sweet will do. Wrap cookies with seams down and cover it with your personalized sticker messages. I used a cling wrap to wrap these cookies- I like that you can actually see what your getting, and it looks too pretty to cover up.

These cookies and its presentation look really great and a lot of people really liked it.

They look so cute! You can makes these for birthdays, or party favors as guests leave. Just personalize your messages.

You can also use a mini-favor bag and attach the sticker on the closing seam. You can get clear stickers at your craft stores or use a label sticker. You can use a label maker or print your labels with your message/messages. I like hand writing the messages with my Calligraphy skills. It makes it more special.

Who says you have to spend a lot to give some?

I gave my cards with these cookies. Read your card and eat your cookie too!

My calligraphy pen comes handy at this time of the year. I took drafting classes when I was in high school so my penmanship and hand writing skills are quite impeccable I may add- boasting aside.;).

Personalize your cards with a your favorite cookies! 

Ginger Molasses Cookies

Ginger Molasses Cookies

I always make ginger molasses cookies but during the holidays it's such a treat making these.It just makes the holidays more festive.  The holiday is fast approaching and baking season is about to start to give, and send off to friends and love ones. These cookies keep well and never disappoint. It always hits a spot and makes you eat another one and then another, and next thing, you know you ate half a dozen.....Mmmmmmmh, let me grab another one.....

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup unsalted butter soften

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/4 molasses

2 cups flour {add 1/4 more if you want it more drier, crispy cookies}

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 salt {omit this if using salted butter}

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. ground ginger

1/2 tsp. ground clove

Make sure the butter is soften,  and the egg is at room temperature otherwise it will not cream well. Chill the dough for an hour or so and roll on sugar. Keep uncooked  rolled dough in the freezer and you have a dough ready to bake or freeze the rest. I

Directions:

Cream butter, sugar and eggs in a stand mixer until smooth. Stir in molasses. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, clove and ginger powder and blend into the molasses mixture. Chill dough for 1 hour or overnight. Roll dough to desired size and roll on granulated sugar.{Don't make the rolled dough too big as they expand while baking}. I roll the dough and flattened to a 1/4 size cup ring size; this produces a medium sized cookie. Any bigger, you get a large sized cookie. Don't make them too small either as you'll get a flat cookie after baking. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Leave the cookies on the baking tray for 1-2 minutes to set and cooled a bit and transfer to a cooling rack to completely cool.{Moving the cookies too soon off the oven and straight to the cooling rack will break easily. It needs to set in a few minutes.

See how cute these cookie dough looks.

I shape the dough and rolled them in granulated sugar and just keep them in the fridge and you have ginger molasses cookies ready for baking. 

The secret to these chewy Ginger molasses cookie is by chilling the dough for a few hours or overnight and rolling them to a medium size disc.

I was supposed to make the ginger molasses cookies to these shapes but the cookie will be too big after being baked. I ended up making it in their regular shape.

Ginger Molasses Cookies! These are so foolproof. Crispy on the edges, and chewy in the middle. Perfect cookies all the time.

Ginger Molasses Cookies

Ginger Molasses Cookies