Baking Christmas Cookies
Posted on December 22, 2009 - Filed Under Food, Fun, Kids | 14 Comments
It’s been rather hectic around here the past couple of days, but we’ve managed to fit in time for Christmas cookies!
The truly awesome thing about making cookies with my kids? We’re using the EXACT SAME cookie cutters that I used as a little girl, making cookies with my mom. She sent them down earlier this year and I’m loving using them with my boys.
And the end results . . .
Somehow, a psychedelic bunny got into the batch!
Updated: You can find the cookie and icing recipe, along with step by step icing instructions on Gourmet Mama.
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Wow! Incredible cookies! Wish I could decorate like that!
So now I’ll have to try your Gourmet Mama cookie recipes.
Wow, those are amazing. Are you going to hook me up with the how to…in making this cool frosting? Really beautiful. Somehow it reminds me of my Hungarian heritage.
love you. Have a Merry Christmas sweet friend.
Happy celebrating!
Kimmie
mama to 7
one homemade and 6 adopted
*expecting again from Ethiopia!!
They may look amazing, but I’m not sure it’s actually worth the effort . . . it took FOREVER!!! You can find the recipe on Gourmet Mama shortly, I’m just posting it now and will link in this post once it’s up.
Ha… your cookies don’t look too bad either. (And the mess is the same – even doing it as a single-person)…. Enjoy & happy holidays to you & your family! xx
My mother taught me to cook and clean-up after myself at a young age. It is a good thing to get boys on the right track at an early age. Well done! Merry Christmas.
I hope I have all the ingredients! I’m heading over to the recipe now! All my cookie cutters are still in shipment though so we might be doing carvings, or using a glass or something!
Connie, if the [whatsisname] – die wooden thing you roll out the dough with – is still in shipment too, I recommend using a wine bottle. It did a great job at my cookie-making madness last weekend because I couldn’t find my whatsisname…
I actually bought a new rolling pin! I needed one because my old marble one had a broken… what do you call it in a rolling pin? Axle? The part in the middle that lets it spin? Problem is, I don’t ‘need’ new cutters because I have some… they’re just not here! I also need to find icing sugar. I have had no luck locally. I googled, and it seems you can substitute regular sugar with a bit of corn starch… put it in the blender… and… drat… my blender is with the cutters!
I want my stuff!
Rolling pin! So that’s the word. Thanks…
In Germany we call it “Nudelholz” (literally: noodle wood).
Noodle wood! I love it
I have only been through Germany in brief intervals… usually unplanned, Augsburg and Garmisch-Partenkirchen… beautiful, but no time to learn much language. I had a pocket dictionary and enjoyed trying to figure out the translation of names and words I found.
I went to the grocery store this morning – and found icing sugar!! Yay! Pretty interesting to visit a large, upscale store in the Middle East, and have it decorated to the ceiling for Christmas and playing Christmas music! Same place had a guy in a pumpkin suit roaming the produce section around Halloween time too. Jordan is very open, accepting, and cosmopolitan. I like it!
Merry Christmas Eve!
Just make cardboard templates, Connie, that’s what my mom used to do. Kids can cut around them with a butter knife. Any irregularities just get eaten anyway!
I only JUST got a rolling pin, I used a glass until recently.
Back again – We made these cookies yesterday and they were soooo yummy! Thank you!
http://whaleears.blogspot.com/2009/12/for-those-who-live-in-actual-cold.html
Yay! I’m glad you liked them!