Gator Cookies

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Check out these delicious Gator Cookies by Deb and Tony Keller.  The Keller’s are incarnational community embodied. The Word is incarnate today through the body of Christ.  Tony, a dad and an architect,  and Deb, a mother of three and labor and delivery nurse, serve the body at Hope investing in the lives of children.  Tony leads our Children’s Ministry team and teaches Kid’s Power Hour, and Deb teaches Mom’s at Hope through her God-given gifts, intelligence and creative passion about loving our husbands and children, much like Barbara Tompkins in Tucson, Arizona.

We were invited over to watch their football alma mater play in a bowl game.  A new talent of  discovered - the gift of baking Florida Gator cookies, beautifully and fanatically decorated using toothpicks, white, blue and orange pastry tubes. Check out the lovely free-hand Gators.   Alton Brown of the Food Network was the source of their recipe and the sugar cookies for the Sugar Bowl were delicious.

Here is an equally nice recipe by Marilyn Southard.                                                                    

 1 lb. real butter

1 egg

1 oz. cream cheese

1 tsp. vanilla

2 c. sugar

1 c powdered sugar

6 cups of flour

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream butter, egg, cream cheese and vanilla till fluffy.  Add sugars and flour.  Roll out and cut as needed into shapes… I love to cut this into squares to serve guests when they come for tea.  Bake 11-13 minutes.

 Happy Food on Friday’s,

Trish