It’s officially Fall and we’re so excited! It has been so hot here in Kansas City so we decided to make fall cookies to make it feel more like fall. However, because we usually do cut out sugar cookies during the winter holidays, it felt more like Christmas when we made these today. Ella was also wearing christmas footie pajamas as we were baking, so the Christmas feelings just kept on flowing.
The whole time we made these cookies, we talked about what our future blog posts would be about. I can tell you we have a lot of fun things planned! But you’ll just have to keep tuning in to see.
Our favorite thing about making these cookies was getting to see the dough come from one color into little bits of random colors and then to all the colors swirled together (check out TheAboutWhatBlog instagram to see the fun pictures of the process). It was so cool.
If you plan on making these cookies we have one suggestion. When rolling the dough out make sure to add flour frequently to the board and rolling pin…we learned this the hard way. If you do not add flour frequently the dough will stick to the cutting board or rolling pin. If it sticks to the cutting board or rolling pin you will have to roll it again until you get it right and, if you roll it a bunch you will lose the color and just end up with plain orange (sorry for that If You Give a Mouse a Cookie book there).
At the end of each recipe post we will do a review at the bottom of the page. It will tell you what we think the level of difficulty is (easy, medium, or hard – keep in mind we’re kids), how we think it tastes, and how we think it looks. We had a lot of fun making these cookies and here are our conclusions…
Level of difficulty: medium
Taste: I think it tastes pretty good. I really like the sweet taste and it was a little salty but i still loved it.
Looks: I love the way the look on these turned out. I plan on doing this type of cookie again but with different colors of food dye and will maybe pipe some frosting on them.
Level of difficulty: medium
Taste: I think the cookies were great. It was a lot of fun and I hope to make them again.
Looks: I think that these pumpkin cookies looked very pretty.
We found this recipe for the Fall Leaves Sugar Cookies on the Land O’Lakes butter website. They made them as leaves and had almond extract in them (we used vanilla). So pretty!
- 1 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large Land O Lakes® Egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Red, orange and yellow gel food colors
- Combine butter and sugar in bowl; beat at medium speed until creamy. Add egg, milk and vanilla extract; continue beating until well mixed. Add flour and baking powder; beat at low speed until well mixed.
- Divide dough into thirds; place each portion into separate bowls. Add very small amount of red gel food color to 1 portion; mix well. Add additional red gel for desired color, if necessary. Repeat with remaining dough portions and gel food colors.
- Shape each dough into ball; flatten each ball to ½-inch thickness. Wrap each in plastic food wrap; refrigerate 2-3 hours or until firm.
- Heat oven to 400°F.
- Working with half of each dough color (keeping remaining dough refrigerated), drop tablespoon-size pieces of dough from each color onto well-floured surface in random pattern with dough pieces touching. Roll out dough to ¼- to ⅛-inch thickness, forming marbled design. Cut with 3-inch pumpkin cookie cutters
- Place cookies, 1 inch apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 7-9 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to cooling rack.
They look beautiful and delicious!! I’m so proud of you girls!! ♡♡♡
Great job girls! I was excited to hear you girls are following in your mom’s footsteps! I will have to show my niece Kathleen what you girls are setting out to do, I think she will be inspired as she loves to be in the kitchen too! Hugs from Conroe, TX
These look awesome and taste even better!! Dad
Good job girls! These are super adorable! Pinned!
These look so good! My boys would have so much fun making these! Congrats on your new blog and keep it up!
Love the colours… icing is nice but it will hide the effect of the swirls
So pretty! Love the colors! 🙂
Beautiful! And your blog is so lovely too! <3
What a fun recipe and so pretty! Can’t wait to see what you share next! 💕
These are so fun and festive, I absolutely love them – great job!!
Wow- I’m impressed not only by your cooking skills, but by your totally awesome blogging skills!
These are so great!!! I love your new blog!
You girls did awesome! I loved reading this. By your descriptions, I can almost taste them! Looking forward to more of your posts! 🙂
These are just so perfect for fall! How fun! Now if only I could reach through the screen and grab a few!
Great job girls! Love your new blog! The photos are gorgeous!
Fantastic job, ladies! Lovely cookies and a beautiful new blog!
Beautiful fall cookies. Love your new blog!
These cookies look great. I have all boys, but a couple of them (12 and 9) would love to make them. Great new blog!
Great job Kelly and Ella!
Cutest cookies ever! Great job, girls!
I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next!
The cookies look great, girls. I love how you’re working together on your new blog. Keep up the great work and I look forward to what you share next. I wish you much success!
These look like so much fun to make! And I absolutely love the swirled colors! GREAT post!
I’m loving these cookies! I can’t wait to see what you two come up with! It is sure to be fun! Great job 🙂
Oh, these cookies look so pretty! I’m so ready for all things fall, aka pumpkin! 😉
These cookies look simply scrumptious! My girls will LOVE them! 😀
What fun! They look great. Reese and I will have to give these a try.
Gorgeous fall cookies! I love the marbling of all the different colors 🙂 Keep up the good work!
Omg this is a great Idea!! I love this so much and I want to do this now! I want to keep reading this blog because it is so amazing!
Love everything about this post!Looking forward to the next one!
Love the cookies & the blog. I look forward to more.
What an impressive blog and the cookies are very pretty. Congratulations on you blog project. Great beginnings. Love you girls!
Great start to your blog! The cookies are so pretty!
These are so pretty girls! Keep the recipes coming, you’ve inspired me to roll out some dough!
Your beautiful cookies has this Flordia girl feeling Fallish!!
Missing the seasons.
These look Fabulous girls!!!! Great photography.
Good luck on your ultra cute blog!
These cookies are SO fun!! I love them! Congrats on your new site. I can’t wait to follow along!
What pretty cookies! I really love that swirl of color!
I’LL TAKE A BATCH PLEASE!!!
Beautiful job, Ladies! The swirls of color in the cookies have me dreaming of cooler call days. I look forward to seeing your flow of creativity here.
Good job girls! Proud of you!
I can see great things happening here. Starting with these cookies. Your dad is one lucky guy testing all those wonderful recipes coming from both blogs xoxo
Such beautiful cookies!!! Love the swirled colors!
Welcome to blogging, girls…I can’t wait to read more!
Congratulations on your lovely blog!
Lovely work! I look forward to reading your blog! xo
This is so great girls! I can’t wait to follow along with you in your blogging journey. 🙂
Great looking cookies, Girls! I love the colours in the dough. Congratulations on starting your own blog. Looking forward to your posts!
So pretty and perfect for fall!
These look great! I may have to hire you both to do all my baking. Good job!
These cookies are SO fun! I wish I could make my cookies look even half as awesome as these! Guess I’ll just stick to eating them all! 😉
Great job, Kelly and Ella! It’s crazy hot and not at all fall-like here in Texas, too. Those cookies could definitely get me into the fall spirit.
What a fun cookie recipe! They look great, and so does the blog!
How cute are these? My girls would love them. And congrats on your new adventure! You have such a wonderfully talented mentor. Best of luck, ladies!
The cookies look great and I’m excited about your blog! Congratulations!!
Those swirls are so pretty! I love your blog and can’t wait to see what you cook up next! I especially love the story behind the title of your blog:)
great job, girls!!
Love the cookies you girls made! Perfect for fall! Have fun with your blog!
Did these taste as great as they looked? I think they would make fun sandwich cookies also, you know with buttercream or cookie butter on the inside!
Great writing and photography ladies.
Good luck!
I’m so impressed that you’re getting started at such a young age! I’m 50-something and have said for YEARS I would like to blog, and STILL haven’t done it. Good for you!
I love this cookie recipe, and I cannot wait to share it with my god-daughter. I definitely think I need to plan weekend where we can make these together – she loves to bake just as much as you do!
Cannot wait to see your future posts!!
These are adorable and I love the photography! Anticipating big things for Christmas from you two:)