It's that time again.......Christmas Cookies! I came home from work on Friday and thought it would be a fun activity for Will and I to make some cookies together. I'll be the first to say that this wasn't one of my "better" ideas!
Let's start with the traditional Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies! Why those first? Because the dough has to chill out in the fridge for a while and you can make something else while that occurs. Though just reading that last sentence, I have to laugh. Making more cookies while the dough is chilling.....HA HA HA HA HA!!! What a chore when a toddler is helping! Will added extra salt, and poured an entire cup of flour onto the kitchen floor. Luckily, I was able to remove most of the additional salt with the help of a spoon. By the time we mixed up the dough in the Kitchenaid and put it in the fridge, two hours of chilling put it way past bedtime. I made the executive decision to let the dough chill overnight and I would bake the cookies on Saturday morning.
Saturday morning....no go. Instead, I had a hair appointment and knocked out most of the rest of my Christmas shopping. (Made record time in Target with getting ALL my gifts and getting checked out in less than an hour, thankyouverymuch!) I finally got around to cutting out the cookies and baking them Saturday evening in time for Bubby to go to bed. On to Sunday....
Sunday we had a birthday party to go to about forty miles away. We had intentions of going out to dinner, but Will fell asleep in the car and there was NO way I was waking him up and taking his grumpy alter-ego into an eating establishment. It just wouldn't be fair to the other patrons, not to mention terrible for us. :) So here we are.....mixing up frosting and decorating cookies at 7pm on Sunday. And then....cookie-decorating lost out in the toddler popularity contest to the Dora the Explorer Holiday Special! Ahhh.......I managed to stretch out ONE batch of cookie-making into three days! Well, I did say that we were cutting back on the baking this year, and it's more enjoyable to stretch it out, right?
Tomorrow....Brian's favorite: Coconut Macaroons!
(cross-posted at Life in the Carpool Lane.)
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