Day 10 - Sugar Cookies

December 10th:

I had on my calendar that Monday night was cookie making night! Now the kids and I make sugar cookies every year, but I can't remember making them homemade from scratch until this year. I found a recipe on pinterest that you can find here. I thought, hey I have everything I need! About the time that I get the butter & sugar creamed and I'm sifting flour I realize that I have absolutely no salt. I had used every bit of it the previous night making play dough!

My hubby, darling man that he is, runs up to the dollar store and picks us up some salt.

Instead of using the icing that you can buy specifically for sugar cookies I purchased just plain ole white cake icing and added food coloring. Dad manned the rolling & supervised the cookie cutting and I mostly took over the baking & clean up and boy was there a lot of clean up to be done.

 

 

Luke's decorated cookie

Lukes candy cane cookie



Layla's decorated cookie

Some of the finished ones

Just some of the mess that I had to clean up

 

 

 

The cookie making business is a tiring one I'll tell you that, but it's also a super fun one. Just remember clean up from these kinds of cookie messes include sweeping & mopping the entire kitchen/dining room floors. By the way I was so excited that my cookies actually held their shape this year instead of rising and spreading! I've never had cookies that actually looked just like they did before I cooked them. If you want to know what I did just ask! I surely don't mind sharing since someone shared these tips with me!