One of my favorite things to do during the holidays is bake. I love all the delicious holiday treats. They make my house smell delicious, and whenever I bake everyone seems to gather in the kitchen. I love the family time that I get when I am baking. I especially love it when my kids help me. It is so fun making memories in the kitchen with them. Hayden is 6, and is getting to be quite the good little baker. He already knows a lot of the different kitchen tool names, different baking measurements, and baking terms. One day I know his wife will thank me for teaching him how to bake.
Betty Crocker is always around in my kitchen. Betty Crocker always has yummy recipes, and products that help my kitchen be even sweeter. Especially when I am cooking with my kids Betty Crocker helps the baking be simple and also fun. This holiday baking season make sure you head over to Betty Crocker’s Kids’ Christmas Cookie Corner. There are lots of great recipes that would make the perfect cookies to take to Christmas parties, share with friends, or to leave out for Santa! There are also videos of the Top 10 Christmas cookies to give you extra tips.
Betty Crocker has yummy cookie mixes to help give you a head start on baking. My kids and I received a great holiday baking pack from Betty Crocker with everything we needed to make delicious memories. After looking through the Betty Crocker Holiday Recipe Booklet 2014 my kids, and I decided on some different ways we wanted to decorate our cookies. Two of the ideas were from the Top 10 Cookie Decorating Ideas of 2014!
First we used the Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix. Hayden had his heart set on making Chocolate Chip Reindeer cookies. Those little reindeer were so stinking cute! Someone is so clever to turn the gingerbread man cookie cutter upside down and then turn it into a reindeer! I also had a few more ideas so Hayden could make them with minimal help from me start to finish. Hayden put the Betty Crocker apron on and got to work. After he mixed the dough, it needed to be refrigerated, so we popped that in the fridge and started on our second set of cookies.
The Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix was so simple. We just poured in the mix in, and then add an egg and butter. My kids also loved taking turns mixing. Then they rolled them into balls and put them on the tray.
Halli wasn’t sure what to think. She loved helping, but wasn’t super sure about how sticky her hands were. I think she just prefers the job of taste tester. We baked up our sugar cookies and then put them in a bag to save for the next day. I knew it would be best if I let Hayden just do the actual decorating, and it would be fun to have some just one on one time with him while Halli napped.
The next day we rolled out the chocolate chip cookies and baked them up. This was an epic mom fail baking moment. Number one rule of baking with kids: DON’T get distracted and pay attention to the recipe! I totally missed the step where you are supposed to add another Tablespoon of flour! So the first batch was flat and did not hold their shape. After I put in some more flour they were perfect. Then we could finally decorate them.
Instead of using a round chocolate mint for the noses we used a red peanut butter M&M. We also used pretzels for the reindeer antlers instead of white icing. Hayden was able to decorate them all start to finish without any help. It was so much fun seeing our little Rudolph the red nose reindeer cookies come to life.
Hayden loved decorating all our cookies. It was such a fun project to do together. He kept coming up with different ideas of how to decorate our circle sugar cookies. He started with the idea from Betty Crocker to make Melting Snowman Cookies and then ran with it! We made snowmen, Santa’s, Elves, and Ornaments. I loved seeing his creative little mind work!
This was just our first time baking this holiday season. We still have to make the perfect Christmas Cookies to leave out for Santa. I know Betty Crocker will be there to help me along the way.
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About Megan
sugar cookies for sure!!
We like to make cookies and fudge.
We love to bake and decorate gingerbread men cookies!
We like to bake sugar cookies.
My kids love baking cookies and making candy. At Christmas their favorite may be making gingerbread houses though.
gingerbread men 🙂
Gingerbread
they like for me to make sugar cookies shaped like santa,,they don’t last long
snickerdoodles
My favorite are oatmeal scotchies, but that is primarily so I can eat a handful of butterscotch chips.
I like making no-bake cookies and rice crisp cereal treats with my kids.
I like making Monster Cookies with dd!
Love sugar cookies!!!
My kids would love the Holiday Fruit Roll-Ups® Cookies.
We love to bake sugar cookies…then decorate them afterwards!
Cookies!
We always use to put fruitcakes together when my daughter lived at home. Also made decorated sugar cookies.
When my children were small we always made Snickerdoodles.
I love to bake/decorate sugar cookies with my children.
We like to bake Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies.
sugar cookies were always the holiday fave where they could roll, cut and then ice.
We love to bake Snickerdoodles.
My favorite holiday treat to make with the kids is bake and frost cutout cookies.
It would probably have to be sugar cookies.
My kids and I love to make peanut butter cookies. Oh yum!
I do not have any children but I make sugar cookies every year for distribution to food pantires.
portugese short bread cookies
I like making Grandma’s Christmas cookies with my niece.
Sugar cookies are my favorite ^_^ yumm
My favorite to bake with the kids is gingerbread blossoms (like the peanut butter ones but ginger cookies instead), they love putting the kisses in the middle.
We love to make decorated sugar cookies.
The kids in my life seem to love baking and decorating cookies as a rule, gingerbread men and sugar cookies in particular, but most recently, doing off-the-wall shapes, like Star Wars, Doctor Who, ninja cookies, ugly sweater cookie competition, stuff like that, seems to be the favorite all around. 🙂
I like to make sugar cookies with my kids as they can get creative with decorating, and have fun. Thanks for the giveway!
Fudge – chocolate, maple and mint
We love making gingerbread men during the holidays
we love making sugar cookies.
We like to make sugar cookies and peanut butter cookies.
Thank you!
We love to make sugar cookies or rice krispie treats!
I love to make sugar cookies with my kids and they decorate them They love to eat them and share them with Santa
Tell me your favorite Holiday treat to bake with your kids!
i dont have any kids,but i like to bake pies..
We love buckeyes. They’re a lot like resse’s with peanut butter and chocolate.
Love making sugar cookies, and eating them!
chocolate chip cookies
Christmas Wreath Fudge is so fast and so easy! Plus, it’s super fun to decorate!
We love baking cut out cookies and decorating them.
We love making sugar cookies. Thanks for the chance to win!
Buckeyes.
I like making gingerbread cookies with my kids.
we love decorating sugar cookies and gingerbread people!
Christmas cookies and cupcakes.
Love to make gingerbread cookies.
We like decorating sugar cookies together.
Pumpkin Pie!
Sugar cookies are our favorite.
sugar cookies
They really like to help making the peanut butter ones with the kisses in the middle.
Soft sugar cookies.
Santa shaped ginger bread cookies for santa, christmas eve
We like to attempt to build gingerbread houses.
I like to bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip cookies with my daughter
My grown son and I make a giant dish of homemade mac & cheese together for holidays.
I love baking sugar cookies with my boys to decorate, but I personally like making/eating Oatmeal Scotchies.
Divinity
Chocolate chip m&m cookies – we have been baking together since my son was little. LOVE this.
Chocolate crinkles are the family fav in this house
Chocolate chip cookies 🙂
I like making the sugar cookies with kisses in the middle.
Sadly I don’t have any little ones around to bake with!
Butter spritz cookies — it’s a Christmas tradition!
Chocolate chip cookies!
I love making a variety of christmas cookies. They are easier and fun to decorate.
Thank you for the chance to win this!
Oh yes have to make the favorite sugar cookies for sure.
Peanut butter balls have my heart.
We like making fudge and mm cookies
We like to bake date pinwheel cookies.
Hello I would love to win this I hope I do
This would be awesome to when so I can enjoy baking with my nieces and nephews!
Always iced sugar cookie cutouts! Perfect for santa =]
Sugar cookies – they have so much fun decorating them.
We love to bake Peanut Butter Cookies and Chocolate Chips cookies but we also love to make Rice Crispy Treats and mix peanut butter in with the marshmallows. Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway!
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This year, I am making chocolate reindeer cupcakes with pretzel antlers, nilla wafer snouts, frosting eyes, and m&m noses. 🙂
love to make christmas cutouts. thankyou, ken
sugar and gingerbread cookies
I like making cut out sugar cookies and popcorn balls with the kids.
We just made our favorites oatmeal raisin cookies, peanut butter kisses, and canolis
I would probably say sugar cookies are our fave.
We bake brownies together
Old fashioned sugar cookies are our favorite to bake.
our yearly Gingerbread ‘shack’….
We love to bake and decorate cookies
chocolate cookie
We like baking brownies and sugar cookies.
We make almond Christmas cookies together every year. Cut them out in Christmas shapes & decorate them. I used to do it with my mom when I was a kid & now I do it with my son. 🙂
I like to bake cookies
My granddaughter is only four years old but next Christmas I plan on buying Christmas cookie cutters so we can make and decorate sugar cookies and gingerbread men.
We love to bake gingerbread cookies!
We love decorating cut-out cookies together. I make a runny glaze frosting, that you can do some pretty neat things with.
We like to cook cut out cookies at Christmas
I love to bake chocolate chip cookies with my sons.
We like to bake sugar cookies and snickerdoodles
We love to bake sugar cookies
We love baking sugar cookies and frosting them for Santa!
We love baking and decorating sugar cookies!
I like to make rice krispy treats with my child
I like making Peanut Butter Blossoms.
We like to make doughnuts.
We always make sugar cookies and frost them.
Love making sugar cookies with frosting. We cut them out in holiday shapes and color the frosting. Add some sprinkles and it’s a lot of fun!
We like baking sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles.
paper thin granmas sugar cookies!
I like to bake sugar cookies also.
We love to bake period. But our favorite around Christmas time is cut out sugar cookies to decorate. It is a tradition to bake them and give them to others who don’t bake.
Caramel pecan rolls, iced sugar cookies, walnut fudge brownies, etc. etc.!
we love making sugar cookies!
Rice Krispies reats
My 2 granddaughters love to help me bake gingerbread men. They are my “official taste testers” when the cookies are ready. 🙂
I love making homemade creamy cheesecake.
Love making & decorating rolled out sugar cookies with my 6 year old grandson
Snickerdoodles
I always liked to bake cookies with my daughter. Its a lot of fun.
I like to make chewy cookies (chocolate chips and raisins).
Sugar cookies.
Rice Krispie treats
They love to cook anything… esp. if they get to “dump” i the ingredients.. which I always premeasure so they can. But cookies have got to be right up there, as they not only like making them, they sure like eating them too!
We like to bake Chocolate Chip Cookies the most!
Like to make sugar cookies with the grandkids
My favorite holiday treat is Italian Wedding Cookies (aka Cocoa Wedding Cakes or Snowball Cookies).
Our favorite Holiday treat to bake with the grandkids would be shaped sugar cookies using all sorts of cookie cutters and toppings to make them personal and unique
I like to bake traditional sugar cookies then decorate them. I have a large cookie cutter collection so it’s a lot of fun.
I love making sugar cookies & frosting with them!
I love baking vegan sugar cookies because they are easy to customize with frosting and sprinkles and other goodies.
I love making cheesecake 🙂
We love making cut out cookies. They are so much fun to decorate!
I love to make rice crispy snacks!
We like making Christmas cookies
We love to make chocolate chip cookies
It would be sugar cookies.
We love to bake snickerdoodle cookies with lots of cinnamon.
Chocolate pie
I love to make cutout sugar cookies with my children.
I love making homemade chocolate chip cookies with them!
We spend days baking cookies, breads and muffins. This year we tried the Betty Crocker gingerbread cookie mix and the cookies were a big hit. Since they cut down the work I think they are my new favorite next to pumpkin bread 🙂
I love to bake sugar cookie cutouts.
I love making Peanut Blossom cookies with my daughter.
We like making chocolate chip cookies.
We love making Chocolate Chip Cookies
We love to bake snickerdoodle cookies
We love to make cake bites in a variety of flavors.
We love to make sugar cookies!
i love making gingerbread houses
cookies
We love baking snowball cookies.
we love to make sugar cookies and the chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies the most
We love baking christmas cookies!
I love to make Christmas Cookies
My favorite thing to make with and for the kids are cutout cookies. The fun we have in decorating is a blast!
We love trying all kinds of cookie recipes!
Gingerbread cut outs with frosting
My favorite is peanut butter cookies
I love to make new bake cookies with my daughter!!!
We really like doing Snickerdoodles!
We like baking cookies and fudge!
snickerdoodle cookies!
We like to make simple sugar cookies with holiday cookie cutters.
Hoilday cookies with sprinkles are always the best to make with kids. They can be creative!
We love to bake and eat peanut butter blossom cookies.
We love to bake and decorate sugar cookies for Christmas. The kids have so much fun doing it.
My kids always loved baking sugar cookies and then decorating them with sprinkles.
We like making sugar cookies.
We like to make Sugar cookies!
We love making ginger bread men and sugar cookies..
We love to bake cornbread.
Favorite holiday treat would have to be peppermint chocolate chip cookies.
cutout sugar cookies!
our yearly family cookie party with three genarations of woman and kids in the kitchen…. its a crazy mess but we all have fun an make memories
My Grandson and I love baking tons of cookies!
He Loves to decorate!
gingerbread people are a favorite 0f ours
My favorite cookie to bake with my kids is snickerdoodles.
Cookies and cupcakes are our favorites to make.
I love making sugar cookies with the girls, decorating them also!
Sugar cookies to decorate.
I like the make peanut butter cookies. Thank you
Decorated and frosted sugar cookies
We love baking cookies as a family, love the reindeer cookies
We love making buckeyes and gingerbread houses
I love to bake anything with my kids/grandkids. I love especially to bake my mom’s cranberry pie with them. None of my grandkids ever met her so when I make this with them I tell the stories all about how wonderful she was. Brings back lots of sweet memories for me. #missmymom
All kinds of cookies and cupcakes are my favorite Holiday treats to bake with the kids.
Sugar cookies!
sugar cookies
We love to make gingerbread cookies, and can’t wait to make gingerbread reindeer!
Oh what fun, and so clever!!
We love making and decorating gingerbread men together.
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I love baking sugar cookies with my kids!! Thanks!
I love baking peppermint cookies.
sugar cookies with icing
i love baking our strawberry cake balls
Sugar cookies
Chocolate chip,,,
Love to make sugar cookies and decorate them. Don’t have cookie cutters but still decorate to look like Christmas trees or snowmen.
oreo balls!
I enjoy baking Snickerdoodles with our son when he was growing up.
Sugar cookies and fudge and brownies and … oh heck we love to bake them all!
I like to bake sugar cookies with my kids.
Definitely cookies we can cut out and decorate ourselves!
Sugar Cookies!
We like to make Oreo Balls.
chocolate chip cookies dipped in chocolate
gingerbread, pb fudge
I like baking holiday sugar cookies with my daughter.
We love making Peanut Butter Blossoms together.
Cranberry Orange Walnut Bread is my fave.
We love to bake and decorate sugar cookies for the holidays.
we like to bake sugar cookies with Hershey kisses on top
We love to make cut out sugar cookies….The kids love decorating and it’s lots of fun and laughter
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We love to make chocolate chip and sugar cookies.
We most love making sugar cookies – they are the best to decorate.
I like making Monster Cookies with dd!
We like to bake gingerbread cookies with icing, thanks!
I like to make peanut butter fudge and coated peanut butter Ritz patties with my kids. Thanks.
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We always liked to make Gingerbread boys & girls and decorate them!
Sugar cookies and decorating them is so much fun.
Sugar cookies are my fave to make with the kids because we like to decorate them.
chocolate chip cookies
Gingerbread men they love to decorate them. They also like use to do salt dough ornaments.
We love making sugar cookies and snicker doodle cookies.
I like to bake cookies with them! Now that we found out how to use parchment paper they tastes great!
sugar cookies!!
We like to make sugar cookies with lots of sprinkles
I like making sugar cookies.
We like to bake Ginger Bread People!
chocolate pretzels
Our favorite is Sugar Cookies and decorating them for Christmas
my sons like chocolate chip cookies to bake! thanks
Our favorite is chocolate chip cookies, the kids love to help bake them!
Sugar cookies
Lazy Cake Cookies! They can handle all of the ingredients and sneak candy!
Sugar cookies are my favorite things to make with my grandkids during the holidays.
I love baking gingerbread man cookies with my Daughter and she decorates!
Sugar Cookies with frosting oh yes!!!!
We love to bake sugar cookies.