Kid Fun!

Everyone loves to eat, but not everyone knows how to cook.  We believe that if you know the basics of cooking and if you know your way around the kitchen, you'll not only become a great cook, but you'll love it, too!  We hope this section is one that you and the young "chefs" in your life find fun and easy to use every month!

Root Beer Cookies

The wonderful flavour of root beer really comes through in these easy-to-make cookies.

Ingredients you will need to make 42 cookies:

• 1 cup/500 ml brown sugar
• 1/2 cup/125 ml butter (or margarine)
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup/60 ml buttermilk
• 2 tsp/10 ml Watkins Root Beer Flavour
• 1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Vanilla
• 1-3/4 cups/430 ml all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml baking soda
• 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml salt
• Root Beer Frosting (see below)

Instructions:

1. In a large bowl, combine brown sugar, butter and egg; beat with an electric mixer until fluffy. 
2. Stir in buttermilk, Root Beer Flavour, Vanilla, flour, baking soda, and salt; mix until smooth. 
3. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate dough for at least one hour.
4. Preheat oven to 375 F/190 C.
5. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets about 2 inches/5 cm apart.
6. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes or until cookies are very lightly browned.
7. With potholders, remove the cookie sheet from the oven and place on a hotpad.
8. With a spatula, remove the cookies to a wire rack to cool.
9. Frost the cooled cookies with Root Beer Frosting.

Root Beer Frosting
Besides providing the finishing touch for the cookies, this frosting is great on vanilla cupcakes or a plain white cake, too!

Ingredients you will need:

• 2 cups/500 ml powdered icing sugar
• 1/3 cup/80 ml butter (or margarine)
• 1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Root Beer Flavour
• 1 to 2 tbsp/15 to 30 ml hot water

Instructions:

1. In a medium sized bowl, mix together the powdered sugar and butter until smooth.
2. Stir in Root Beer Flavour and enough of the water to make a smooth frosting.
3. Using a small spatula or the back of a spoon, spread evenly over the top of your Root Beer Cookies.

To make Root Beer Shakes , combine milk, ice cream, and a few drops of Root Beer Flavour in a blender. Blend on low speed until thickened. Enjoy!

What is the difference between ice cream, ice milk and frozen yogurt? Ice Cream is made with cream, milk, sweetening and flavouring.  Ice cream contains at least 20% milk fat. Ice Milk is made like ice cream but has milk fat content of 2 to 7% Frozen Yogurt is yogurt with sugar and nonfat milk solids added.  It is similar in fat content to ice milk. If a recipe calls for ice cream, you can substitute ice milk or frozen yogurt.  This will not affect how the recipe will turn out.

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