Cooking Up Family Fun (NAPSA)—A new entertainment package is sure to satisfy a girl’s craving for some berrylicious fun. A new DVD, “Strawberry Shortcake: Cooking Up Fun,” comes with a 12-page cookbook filled with recipes, activities and special memories that can help bring moms and daughters together for fun activities. In the sweet, two-part DVD, Apple Dumplin’ wants to help her friends with baking yummy desserts—and learns a great lesson about big responsibilities. In the second half, Strawberry and friends decide to host a cooking show on “Berryvision.” But when things go wrong, it takes somereprioritizing to smooth things over and unite to bake a joyful recipe full of friendship. Here’s one of the sweet, kidfriendly recipes from the enclosed cookbook: Strawberry Shortcake’s Sugar Cookies 3% % % 1 1% 2 1 1 cups flour teaspoon baking soda teaspoonsalt cup butter, softened cups white sugar eggs tablespoon vanilla extract container store-bought frosting Tubesof decorator icing (optional) In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Cream together butter and sugar in a large bowl using an electric mixer. Add eggs and mix until well-combined. Then mix in vanilla. Add flour mixture to butter mixture. Beat on medium —-@whey ey Mini-Cookbook It’s a “berry” sweet adventure, both in the kitchen and on a new Strawberry Shortcake DVD. speed. Cover bow] with plastic wrap andrefrigerate for 1 to 2 hours, until dough is cold and firm. Preheat the oven to 350 and line a baking tray with foil. Sprinkle a clean, flat surface with a tablespoonof flour and use a rolling pin to roll out half of the dough. Dough should be about %-inch thick. Use cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes. Place shapes on bakingtray. Bake cookies for 5-7 minutes, or until light golden brown. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool. Continueuntil all of the cookies are baked. After cookies have cooled, spread a thin layer of frosting on each one and decorate with decorator icing andsprinkles. “Strawberry Shortcake: Cooking Up Fun’is available from Fox Home Entertainment. To learn
