Snowman Cookies
Wow. So, it seems like every semester at finals time, I fall off of this whole blogging thing for a while. Usually, it's about a week. This time it was a little longer. And I even only had one final of my own to take. I did have a bunch of papers to pass in though. But except for a couple forms, it's all over. Phew.
However, last weekend I wasn't fully ensconced in finals yet. CJC came, and she, AB and I had adventures. Namely, they brought me to a paint your own pottery place and we made pottery! It was really fun. AB also had a cookie swap last weekend. And then, Tuesday was the final for the class I taught, and I spent Wednesday and Thursday studying. I realized on Friday morning when I went to my own final, I realized I hadn't been out of the apartment in two whole days. Oops. But that's another story entirely.
So, all that is to say, last Friday, I was making cookies for AB's cookie swap. I knew that I needed a bunch, and I wanted to make them cute. I finally thought of the snowman cookies I made a couple winters ago. They were easy and fun! So, if I could make round cookies, I could make them pretty easily! I was going to make sugar cookies and then cut out circle using a biscuit cutter. I think it would have taken forever. Yikes.
So, I found a recipe for sliced cookies in one of my Betty Crocker cookie cookbooks instead. I ended up making the ropes of dough way too small though, and I ended up with about two times as many cookies as I was supposed to get. But that means there were many, many, many cookies.
I expected them to be sort of like sugar cookies, but they were very buttery.
And they were easy enough to decorate -- there were just soooo many of them. I frosted them, then used mini chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth, and I cut up gummy orange slices for noses.
They were easy enough, but still took forever.
My goodness. So many of them. And I still didn't even decorate all of them!
But I ended up with a nice assortment of cookies, thanks to all the people at the swap! Yum.
So, I found a recipe for sliced cookies in one of my Betty Crocker cookie cookbooks instead. I ended up making the ropes of dough way too small though, and I ended up with about two times as many cookies as I was supposed to get. But that means there were many, many, many cookies.
I expected them to be sort of like sugar cookies, but they were very buttery.
And they were easy enough to decorate -- there were just soooo many of them. I frosted them, then used mini chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth, and I cut up gummy orange slices for noses.
They were easy enough, but still took forever.
My goodness. So many of them. And I still didn't even decorate all of them!
But I ended up with a nice assortment of cookies, thanks to all the people at the swap! Yum.
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