Like any other family on the planet, we like sugar cookies. They’re yummy to eat and baking them up and decorating them is a family activity.
The thing that makes sugar cookies so fun to make is, while they’re very basic in nature, kids can really show off their personalities with every single one. They pick the shape, frosting and decorations, making every single sugar cookie a work of art.
The thing I’m not crazy about is sprinkles. I never have been. Even as a kid, I didn’t care for their texture and felt that they ruined a perfectly good cookie. So, now that I’m the one with the rolling pin and apron, I’ve decided that we’ll decorate our sugar cookies with a cream cheese frosting and sliced fruit. Each turns out to be a colorful masterpiece, and you don’t have to worry about your child busting a tooth on a crunchy silver pearl of sugar.
When it comes to the actual sugar cookie dough, sometimes we make it from scratch using my grandma’s recipe and other times, for time’s sake, we just use cookie dough from the supermarket. That’s just a matter of preference. The frosting is actually a simple filling made with an 8-ounce package of softened cream cheese beaten with a 1/2 cup sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. It’s delicious and complements the sweet and tangy fruit slices.
Once the cookies are iced with the cream cheese filling, we decorate them with slices of strawberries, kiwi, grapes, mandarin oranges, peaches, bananas, blueberries and raspberries. My kids don’t care for all of the same fruits, so this works out well. They can each choose exactly what they want and everyone is happy.
If you want to get wild, then you can use the cookie dough to make one large cookie crust, and then use the cream cheese filling as sauce and fruit as toppings for your family’s very own fruit pizza. It’s really stunning and makes an elegant, yet festive, dish to pass at a potluck.
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