Thursday, March 30, 2006

Cookies of the World

As a review of basic general geography we made these world cookies (I pulled the idea from an old magazine, I wish I could remember which one now):

Mix up sugar cookie dough, put 2/3 in one bowl and color blue. Put the remaining 1/3 in another bowl and color green. Roll out the blue and cut into rounds. Add blobs of green for the continents. Bake. When cool, dip the "poles" in white frosting for the ice caps. Eat.

We had so much fun making these! The kids remembered to press the equator or the prime meridian into the cookie dough with a toothpick. I forgot all about those imaginary lines, but my mistake worked to my benefit. It was easier for me to identify the cookies that my pristine hands had made and reserve them for Todd and I to eat. The kids enjoyed their more geographically correct, and cootie-kissed, cookies.