Made With Love

Good afternoon, everyone! It’s Amanda, back with another of my easy and affordable snack ideas for recruitment! Now, I know for a lot of you, recruitment might either be well on it’s way or over, but I’m still holding out some hope that there are some of you left going through the same, exciting time as I am. My recruitment period starts tonight!

Along with some simple recipes that anyone can execute from their teeny, tiny dorm room kitchens, I will also be showcasing bakegreek.com, a website I found during one of my daily travels across the internet. Bake Greek is a website that specializes in Greek letter and alphabet cookie cutters. They are an official licensed product, with more products aimed toward Greek life to come.

Using their products, my organization’s recruitment chair will be baking cute and delicious Greek letter cookies to serve to the PNMs. They’ll hopefully be in for a sweet surprise! For today’s recruitment treat, we’ll be making sugar cookies from scratch. Though it may be less time consuming to simply use a Pillsbury roll, cookies made from scratch have the kind of flavor that not all cookies can capture (and how proud of yourself will you be after you’ve finished them up?)

The recipe that I’ve provided below makes four-dozen cookies (probably enough for one rotation of PNMs), but doubling or even tripling the recipe shouldn’t be a huge ordeal.

Homemade Sugar Cookies: Made with all the love of a sorority girl!

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients Include:

Two 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

One teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

One cup softened butter

One 1/2 cups white sugar

One egg

One teaspoon vanilla extract

All of these ingredients can be found in small and bulk amounts at your local supermarket.

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C)

2. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder

3. In a large bowl, mix together butter and sugar until smooth

4. Add egg and vanilla extract into the large bowl

5. Combine the contents of both bowls gradually, kneading the ingredients

6. Separate dough into pieces and roll them up into balls.* Place onto ungreased cookie sheet

7. Bake 8 to 10 minutes in preheated oven, or until golden

8. Remove and let cool

*If you were planning on making these little beauties into the shapes of your letters, replace this step with the Greek cookie cutters instead!

Once you've finished baking, your cookies should look a little something like this:

Look at them little golden brown nuggets.

But don't stop there! They're so boring, aren't they? And no one wants to serve boring sugar cookies to potentials. So what can you do to spice them up? Here are a couple of pictures I've found of various decorating ideas and the like to help you out.

Sprinkles!

Flower power!

Greek letters, man.

Aww yea, no one can resist these guys.

Bake Greek has some pretty awesome tutorials that would be great for decorating. They're easy to follow and really fun to execute (I know, I've tried!)

Now, if baking from scratch is too time consuming (and, with how stressful recruitment can be, this is a possibility), there's no shame in buying a couple rolls of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough. Each 16.5 oz roll makes approximately 16 cookies, but it shouldn't be hard to squeeze 20 out of the roll. The instructions are on the sides of the rolls and only takes about 15 minutes to finish up.

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I think I'm gonna end up making my roommate take me out for some cookie dough in a minute or two... I hope recruitment has been going well! Congratulations to all of the new member classes that have been established and all of the beautiful new sisters to come!