Every year, the children and I have a tradition of making and decorating sugar cookies, and also making a gingerbread village. This year, I bought a gingerbread house kit, so I did most of the decorating, but we used Dorie Greenspan's sugar cookie recipe (with lemon zest rubbed into the sugar -- yummy!) from this book
, of course.
The whole proccess takes a while, as does anything with small children, so by the time we finished stamping out the shapes, Daisy had just had enough. A good long nap followed shortly after this shot.
Some superfun sprinkles that I found at Target.
By the time that we got around to the decorating, both of the little guys were solidly asleep for their afternoon naps, so Max helped them out after dinner to fully sprinkle their own cookies.
Cookie Monsters
I used my favorite vintage biscuit cutter to stamp out circles with the re-rolled scraps of dough left over, and gave them a simple (and slightly more grown-up) apricot glaze.
3 comments:
Do you roll out onto waxed paper? Do you also put a piece on top when rolling? I use flour and I feel like I end up using way too much.
I use 2 pieces of waxed paper, and no flour at all. Since the dough is chilled for at least two hours before rolling, it doesn't stick too badly. I also find that, after stamping out the shapes, if I put the waxed paper sheet with dough into the freezer for about 10 minutes, it enables me to cleanly peel the extra dough away, and then lift off the cookies onto parchment paper for baking. With that much butter, it's all about the cold!
Brilliant! Now I just need to remember this until next Christmas. :)
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