My boys love to help me bake. Whenever they notice that I’m making something they always come running and drag a chair across the kitchen so they can see exactly what’s going on. While I love to let them “help” me…it’s usually things like measuring the sugar or pouring the flour into the bowl. Their “help” usually costs me an extra half hour of cleaning (at least) at the end 
.
So, when Pillsbury asked me to try their Ready to Bake cookies, I was excited. As you can see from the picture, it was extremely easy for my boys to help put the cookies on the baking pan, and they felt like they were “their” cookies.
As the daughter of a very talented baker, I usually make all my cookies from scratch, but the last couple of years, I have been know to “cheat” on my sugar cookies. If I have to go to all the trouble to roll them out and decorate them, I will usually buy a roll of sugar cookie dough to “ease the process”. But, I hadn’t tried the decorative colors yet. They were very easy and yummy. Plus, if the kids still want to decorate the cookies, they can add frosting and sprinkles.
Although my boys and I decorated with a fun Snowman shape, there are many shapes to be found…Thanksgiving shapes and even reindeer shapes for Christmas.
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Disclosure: MyBlogSpark gave me a sample of the Pillsbury Ready to Bake cookies to review and is providing the Pillsbury prize pack for the winner. I did not receive any compensation to write this post. The opinions are all mine!
Corrie is a "cents"able wife and stay-at-home mom of 2 boys.
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Our Thanksgiving tradition is French meat stuffing, so good. We don’t usually have the traditional bread stuffing and have this with our turkey instead
We always have to make a new dish for the meal.
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I would love free cookies! My 2 yr old son also has to “help” me whenever I bake.
We always eat on my mother’s china
We love going around the table and saying what we are thankful for.
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Love my mom’s sweet potatoes and apples with marshmellows!! I could eat that just for dinner!
We always serve Bran muffins from the recipe my grandfather used in his bakery
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We enjoy going around the table on Thanksgiving and naming something we’re grateful for.
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I ask our kids what they are thankful for. That’s about it. They are too busy playing all day long with new toys they get at the grandparents house we’re eating at.
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My mother grew up always having brussel sprouts on her Thanksgiving table. She still has them and none of us care for them.
one of our thanksgiving traditions is to make a fruit gobbler (turkey). it is SO cute!
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One of our Thanksgiving traditions is to always having my grandmother’s dressing handmade from scratch from cornbread. Absolutely delicious!
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my favorite thanksgiving tradition is making open face turkey sandwiches with the leftovers
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One of our Thanksgiving traditions is the big reunion dinner on Thanksgiving Day!
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Our tradition is to have certain people make certain foods handed down in the family. For example, my aunt makes the stuffing from my great great grandmothers recipe.
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We always have fruit salad and my Mom peels the grapes as she hates the peel.
We always have this weird cucumber salad, its pretty good, but it’s tradition!
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Our tradition is to go around the table before we eat and say what we’re thankful for.
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Our normal Thanksgiving tradition is to go camping for the weekend, bu this year we’re staying home and just hanging out with extended family.
We always have the family together at my moms. Cant wait- one more week. This year I am a married women=)
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We have afew tradions at my home: use a best china, chocolate pie, and play board games. It is great! We look forward to it every year.
one of our traditions is to get the china out, get the silver out and set the table so that it is beautiful everyone gather around and bow their heads for prayer before anyone eats, and have an open door policy for anyone who wants to come to our home for thanksgiving, for any reason. tracisme@gmail.com
the only tradition we have is I provide the turkey and everyone else brings one of their favorite side dishes
We have a tradition of saying what you are thankful for while you are eating.
We’re starting a new tradition this year, having everyone write what we’re thankful for on a leaf and hanging it on a poster of a tree. jenmizener at gmail dot com
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