I love cookies. If eating cookie dough counted as a sport (a girl can dream, can’t she?), I’m pretty sure I’d be an Olympic champion.
Imagine, then, how excited I am each Christmas to make gingerbread cookies with my family! Here are a few of my 2014 favorites: snowmen, colorful candy canes, an American star, a hippie girl (any excuse to put Twizzlers on a cookie, am I right?), and Lelia’s most adorable Mrs. Claus (in green). I think they just get cuter every year!
I’m already sad to think that Jeff and Lelia won’t be here next year to decorate with us. Jeff is off to med school!
I thought Kaya might actually decorate some… but she was really into eating her lollipop instead.
As always, we made up plates of goodies to deliver to friends and neighbors. I just love that we can combine my childhood tradition of decorating cookies with Michael’s childhood tradition of delivering them.I felt like we really had a great assortment of sweets this year! We made:
gingerbread cookies
Michigan fudge
the best chocolate-chip cookies ever
and some buttery spritz cookies!
Kaya saw me scooping out the chocolate-chip cookie dough and was SO very excited to help!
Making cookies takes serious concentration. Obviously.
We made up 15 plates this year, which sure felt like the most we’ve ever done, but I didn’t keep count the last couple years, so I don’t actually know. We gave away all but one (our neighbors left town sooner than we realized so they missed out on these)!
Kaelyn was quite patient through this whole process. I love having a little buddy who can just sit and watch, but I know she’ll be into making a big mess with the rest of us next year!Just 2 more days!