In an effort to start some of our own family traditions, I decided to have Leah help me make cookies for Santa. These cookies were the first thing I have ever baked 100% from scratch. I found a recipe for "soft" sugar cookies on Pinterest and used my own version of a couple different buttercream frosting recipes. Friday morning we went to the store to get ingredients. Leah sat on the counter with me with her own spatula and helped me scrape the ingredients off the side of the bowl after I had mixed them. One thing I learned, a Kitchen Aid would be a LOT easier then a hand mixer when it comes to mixing cookie dough! We got the dough all mixed and I put on an episode of Dora, while I rolled out the dough and cut out the cookies to bake. I ended up making a total of 46 cookies with dough left over. This whole process had taken half the morning. So I put Leah down for quiet time and told her we would decorate the cookies after. She really wanted to add the food coloring to the frosting, so I mixed it all up and saved that part for her. After quiet time we set up our decorating station. It wasn't much, just green frosting and sprinkles. I put the frosting on and then Leah added the sprinkles. Another lesson: sprinkles and a 2 year old are not the best combination. By the time we were done, I had sprinkles all over my dining room floor. Since we ended up with so many cookies (remember this started out as making cookies for Santa to eat when he delivered our presents) we decided to bring some with us to all our family events that weekend. All said and done, it was a lot of fun, and I was super proud to know that I can make cookies from scratch :) Next year, we'll make them earlier in the week and deliver them to friends (actually, we'll see. With a 3 year old and 8 month old, I might be biting of more then I can chew...) but, we will make cookies. I just might divide the recipe by 4 and make a little less :)
My little helper
Quality control
Not sure what happened with the color in this pic, but it was too cute not to post :)
The cookies we left for Santa. He liked them!
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Hope you had a great Christmas! I promise I will give Gigi the canvas when she comes up this week! We all got sick last weekend and didn't make down to her house at all. We're better now!
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