Thumbprint Cookies
We have been using the 25 Days of Friendship to learn about the joy in giving to others without the expectation to receive. Every year, we try to reach out to the community to say something and show we at Bridlewood School care.
This year, we have decided to bake thumbprint cookies and draw/write cards for the youth at the Alex. We plan to make the cookies and bake on Tuesday, December 10th.
If you'd like to donate cooking supplies or ingredients for our kindness cookies, please email Ms. Jenn at jkbarge@cbe.ab.ca and Ms. Tanya at tjfaulkner@cbe.ab.ca to let us know what you'd like to donate or let us use.
If you'd like to come and help us on Tuesday with our baking, please email us. Your police clearance needs to be up to date for you to support us.
Our list:
Ingredients
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Baking Supplies
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Flour (25 cups)
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Cookie sheets (12)
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Sugar (8 cups) - Sage (4cups)
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Cookie racks
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Baking Powder (10 tsps)
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Mixing bowls (12)
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Butter (5 lbs)
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Mixing spoons (12) - Sage (2)
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Salt (10 tsps)
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Cookie scoops/Ice-cream scoops
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1 dozen eggs - Vina
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Vanilla (20 tsps)
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Raspberry Jam (6 cups) - Sage
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There was so much math to bake cookies. We learned about fractions and decimals to figure out what the cost per ingredient would be and then the cost per batch of cookies. See our thinking here...
We had so much fun baking - classroom chemistry. It was lots of work. We learned how to cream butter and sugar - stirring was hard work. It required a lot of elbow grease to make the butter and sugar fluffy. We also learned how to incorporate dry ingredients into wet ingredients so we didn't make a huge mess. We used our hands to create a big dough ball. Then we had to make little dough balls for each cookie, making sure we had equal size balls so our cookies would cook evenly. Finally, we made heart thumbprints into our dough before filling with jam and baking them. It took as all day! We didn't count our cookies, so we have no idea exactly how many we made. But they smelled delicious and looked good. We are excited to give them away. There is joy in being the giver.
