Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A lesson in cookies

Cookies are a univeral like. I have never met a soul that would turn one down. Martha Stewart made them "good things." They are tasty, the sweeter the better....and you can't frown when sprinkles are around!

We started a family tradition of baking cookies and decorating them on Christmas Eve (for Santa, of course....nevermind that we ate most of them!). Having just attended a cookie swap (with very tasty and highly praised homemade peppermint chocolate chip cookies), I decided to make sugar cookies (and icing) from scratch, rolling it out and cutting it into shapes. My stock of cookie cutters are weird...a star, a heart and umbrella (the strange one!). The stars ended up like bloated starfish, the hearts more like the Gaffney Peach, and the umbrellas looked a bit like mushrooms. No matter! They still tasted yummy and were perfect for decorating. Note, JR LOVED the red sprinkles, emptying almost a jar on one cookie.
Although not holiday-themed, the umbrellas made sense after all...it rained on Christmas!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So cute!! I loved doing cookies with Clayton and Remsen and now with my Grands.I see that J.R. is ready to do cookies at Emme's house;what fun!!

Anonymous said...

What a great time you two must have had baking cookies ! Family traditions are wonderful!
gnana