Made some cookies, had some fun.
Posted in Cooking, Mom Life on 12/20/2007 08:35 am by toriMy cookie adventures didn’t end with macaroons. On Tuesday, Julia and I went over to Nana’s house to make gingerbread men (and trees and deformed looking puppies). The baking went surprisingly well, considering my failings with all things gingerbread. In fact, I have been known to fail at those gingerbread house kits with the premade pieces - miserably.
We made the dough, a lighter colored and lighter tasting gingerbread than I’m used to, following Paula Deen’s recipe from the Food Network seen here: Gingerbread Boys and Girls. We didn’t mod the recipe at all, except to sub light brown sugar, and while the flavor was ok, it really didn’t SING gingerbread to me.
Nevertheless, we had fun. Julia cut out her first cookies, as well as decorating them and eating them! She’s so not only 2.5…
She’s also doing well with potty training, although she will defiantly use the Pull-Up as a defecation or urination station if she decides to test boundaries. Ah, toddlerhood.
Here’s some pics of our escapade:
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12/21/2007 at 8:44 pm
LOVE the new decor, first off. Secondly, I ran away from the macaroons due to my coconut allergy, but the gingerbread people look like they turned out wonderfully. I’ll be baking oatmeal/cranberry cookies and cranberry thumbprint cookies in the next day or so. I may even do some plain sugar cookies with chocolate icing and sprinkles for the chocoholics who live here and who may be visiting.
Happy Holidays, Tori! Miss Mama and I wish you all the best of the season. XOXO
PS You may wish to have a gander at my blog. I have a present for you there.