Every year I make Christmas cookies for family and friends. It started as a tradition with my sister in high school when we were poor and unable to buy gifts for everyone. Now that we are older and have more money we still love to keep the tradition alive. I decided to make four different kinds of cookies this year and I set a certain amount of time to make them. I only had a couple hours one day but I had a plan and knew I could get it all done! But reality hit and that was not the case.
It all went down hill when I had to go to three different stores to get all my ingredients then I made the first dough because it had to chill for an hour. The plan was that during that time I would make the other cookies. Well turns out the next cookies in line needed to chill for two hours. So already I was far behind. Long story short during my allotted time I only made one cookie recipe, ONE! I needed to make FOUR!
I had to work that day as well which is why I only had a certain amount of time. I went to work and got off around 10pm. I came home and made the rest of the cookies. I had to finish them because I was bringing some to a girl at work who bought me a little gift a couple weeks ago for a welcome back to work thing. She loves cookies so it was a great way to repay her. I didn't go to bed till after 2am and had to be at work the next day at 9am. There was not enough coffee to help me that day.
The cookies though did all end delicious, maybe not so pretty but throw some icing and no one will know! I got a lot of compliments on the baking which made all the stress and back-ache worth it. Here are some pictures and I know there aren't many but I really just wanted to finish not do a photo shoot. Below the pictures are the link to the recipes! If you try any let me know I would love to know how the baking goes for you!
My kitchen or better known as my mess. This was just making the first batch and the second dough.
Raspberry Almond Shortbread Thumbprints
I make these every year and they are the first to go. SO YUMMY!!
Cinnamon roll sugar cookies were a big hit! They didn't turn out pretty but everyone loved these the best!
Mess from the cinnamon roll sugar cookies.
What they looked like after baking. I drizzled cream cheese icing and they were perfect!
These were suppose to be oreos drizzled in vanilla chocolate melts but I could only find marshmallow melt left in store. It worked great they were good...
... and turned out really cute! Hey little snowmen!
Grinch cookies! I thought it was too much sugar and they would turn out awful but...
...they turned out great but not green. Only problem is they are suppose to be green hence Grinch cookies. I followed the recipe but one drop of food coloring is not enough!
My dog Moo Moo helping bake at 1am.
RECIPES
^ The trickiest part I found was getting a really tight roll so they didn't fall open during baking.
^The cake pop sticks did not stay in the double stuff oreo. Marshmallow melt did not drizzle at all maybe the vanilla one would have worked out better. Also don't break teeth on the orange tic tac nose.
^Need more than one drop of green food coloring. I couldn't find the heart candy so was going to draw one with icing but bought the wrong kind of icing. I told you it was all a mess!
Good luck making any of these! Hope my notes help! If you make them let me know also I want to hear about your Christmas cookie baking! Thanks for being so patient with me and my lack of posting recently!
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