Things to Do During Ramadan #6 - Make Crescent Shaped Cookies!

Yesterday as we prepared for Ramadan, the kids and I made crescent moon and star shaped cookies. It was a fun activity. I always mean to do it every Ramadan but it's been years since we have gotten around to making them again.  The kids had fun!

We used a soft cutout sugar cookie recipe from one of my favorite recipe sites, Sally's Baking Addiction. I imagined that they were going to be difficult to make, but they were pretty easy.

The ingredients were pretty basic things I generally have on hand:

• 3/4 cup  unsalted butter, slightly softened to room temperature
• 3/4 cup  granulated sugar
• 1 large egg, at room temperature
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract (I didn't have this, but they were still very tasty!)
• 2 and 1/4 cups (281g) all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

You can get the recipe from the link above. One of the things that she stressed was to make sure that you chill the dough, and she recommended rolling it out first before chilling.

I had originally intended to ice them with colored frosting but I couldn't find the colors that I wanted, so we colored the cookie dough!

We ended up making stars as well (because I had a star cookie cutter). For the crescent moons, I used a plastic biscuit cutter.

We made the crescents by using the round cutter and overlapping circles (my daughter's idea)

Then it was time to ice them. I rarely frost cookies so I happened along another site that suggested making an outline shape with the icing first, filling in some of the inside and spreading with a knife.

Our finished products!

It was mostly my teenage daughters, seven year old daughter and I making the cookies, but my 11 year old son joined in to help ice a few as well.

I hope, in shaa Allah to do more baking this Ramadan as the kids really enjoyed it.