Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas Baking

I have been diligently mixing, cutting, baking, melting, and decorating Christmas cookies. This is what I'm filling my tins with this year:

Sugar Cut-Outs
Gingerbread
Pumpkin Cookies
Chocolate Chip
Thin Mints (yep, like the girl scout cookies)
Peppermint Bark
Cinnamon Gems
No-Bakes
Oatmeal Raisin
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Bryan decorated sugar cookies for the first time in his life, behold his little cane creations:

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Did you notice the cookies have sparkle to them? He found neat-o glitter gel in the store and even came up with the cool idea of striping the canes with Twizzlers, I love my creative cookie decorating husband!

I did these:

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I think I need to go add some melted chocolate to finish off the tree stumps...

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Twinkling little stars!

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I really want to bite their heads! Chomp...Chomp...oops....Not the Gum drop bottoms!

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ETA: Here is a link to the sugar cookie recipe I used this year. The trick to getting the icing to look so pretty is the hard glaze.

2 comments:

spiritsong said...

You two have been busy in the kitchen. ;) I think they came out really well and yay that he had a good experience decorating for the first time. :)

Wendy said...

Oh...those look so yummy!