We made lots of cookies.
First round was Monday afternoon. We got some peanut butter dough in a tube from the refrigerated section of Meijer… chilled it some more, sliced it into discs, shaped it into faces, stuck some broken up pretzels on for antlers, stuck some mini chocolate chips on for eyes, baked them for a few minutes, took them out, laughed hilariously at them, stuck hershey’s kissables on for noses. Voila, Reindeer Cookies.
School was cancelled on Tuesday, so Sarah’s mom was home and we decided to start round two early. We started with the cookies whose dough had to be chilled before the prep was done, some sugar crinkles and chocolate minty things. Once the parts to be chilled were prepared and chilling, we moved on to some peanut butter cookies (the kind with the Hershey’s Kisses in the middle of them). We had Frank’s help for those. Once those were all cooling, we got our sugar crinkle dough out of the fridge and rolled them into balls, coated them in sugar and finished them off… we forgot to set a timer for one batch, so it didn’t quite get as done as the others, but they’re still delicious. Then we started mixing up some M&M cookies and put them in the oven. A couple batches of those came out a little weird because the oven was set at the wrong temperature. The last couple batches came out just fine, though. We broke out this cookie-gun thing and Sarah prepared some colored buttery dough to shoot through the gun into some fun shapes. She made some trees and wreaths and flowers and sprinkled some colored sugar on them. Finally, we got out the chocolate dough that was cooling and rolled it into balls, making quite a mess of ourselves, cooked them, and then tried to spread these semi-melted colorful mint things on top of them. We got a little better at it with time, but some of them turned out ugly.
I don’t think I missed any. Enjoy the pictures. Round three is on Friday! Chocolate covered pretzels, Gingerbread, Bear Claw thingies. It’s gonna be great.
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