We started the season off with a tradition we've been doing since Olivia was a tiny baby-making Christmas Sugar cookies. We did it a bit different this year, and I ended up loving the new way so much better!! No huge icing mess and no sprinkle stuck in every crevice of the kitchen for months.
Start with your favorite sugar cookie recipe. Next, add food coloring to make it the color you want. We chose to make Christmas trees this time so we went with green, red, and yellow. Just separate the dough into different lumps, add the coloring, mix, and roll out onto parchment paper to chill in the fridge for at least an hour.
Once the dough has chilled it's much easier to work with. We wanted to make red garland for our trees, so this is Manly cutting "snakes" for us to put on our green dough.
It looks like this at first.
This is what it looks like all finished.
If you're really lucky you'll have helpers like these!
We also wanted to make yellow decorations for our trees, so this is Addi making her tiny balls.
KK with her balls. She probably wanted to eat them straight off the table!
Once all the balls were made we put them all over the dough like this.
The last step is to put parchment paper over the top and roll it gently, but firm enough to flatten it out.
It ends up looking like this.
Last, you just use cookie cutters and put them onto a buttered pan to cook(follow the recipe for cooking temp and time).
Look how CUTE they turned out!!
Mia was HAPPY to help and even happier to have a cookie.
These are the leftover cookies. We just used the dough that was left, rolled it out, and cut these cookies. I called them the "that's 70 show Christmas cookies." They still tasted good, by the way!
Addi after she got to eat her leftover dough. I think she approves. Ha!
I have a bazillion more pictures to share and talk about, but I'll have to save those for another post.
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