Cut-out Christmas cookies. You know the kind-bells and wreaths and trees and Santas and Santas-in his sleigh and Santas-in-the-chimney and wreaths and balls and stockings and snowflakes, etc, etc, etc. You can find cutters in any shape you want, any shape. Making the cookies isn't so bad, pretty routine. But then you have to roll them and try to keep them all the same thickness and try to keep them from breaking. Then you have to transfer them to the cookie sheet to bake and try to keep them from breaking. Then you have to transfer them to the rack to cool and try to keep them from breaking. Then you let them cool. And then, when they are all done and cooled you still have to make the icing and ice them-and try to keep them from breaking.
I always made these cookies when the kids were little. After all, those are what kids think of when they thing of Christmas cookies and you certainly couldn't leave any other kind for Santa, could you? I think I stopped making them very soon after Santa stopped coming to our house. A few years ago there was some grumbling in the troops about why there never seems to any of those "real cookies" any more so, with the same attitude, I started making them again maybe three years ago.
This year Liz was off from work all of Christmas week and made the mistake of coming into the kitchen and saying, "What can I do to help you?" Bless her heart. She made all of them and then actually found someone who was excited about decorating them.
They even monogrammed a couple of them-good elves that they were.
And what was Mrs. Claus and Ms. Sylvia doing while the elves were making cookies?
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That's my "S" cookie replies the unnamed elf! Someone ate my cookie!
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