It’s easy to be friendly, but making friends can be a bit trickier, can’t it? I pretty much started from scratch when I moved to London, and by the time I left, there were so many people I was sad to be moving away from. Minneapolis was more or less the same story, and it’s kind of incredible to have a group of people to call friends again. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that my friend Julie and I made cookies today.
It was our second annual cookies making day, actually. I baked the gingerbread cutouts yesterday, so we just had to bake the sugar cookies and then decorate them all. With lunch in the middle. The lunch is important, to stop you getting hungry while you’re decorating. Because you know if you sample too many of the cookies, you’ll just wind up sugar crashing by late afternoon.
Pretty, aren’t they? We didn’t bother trying to spread frosting this year, and I really like our piping efforts. Last year, our decorating discovery was thinning out frosting and dipping the cookies in to save time (a technique I used again for some of my Christmas gift cookies). This year, I did some coloured piping and filled it in with white, and we both decided that was our favourite look.
The cookies are all packed up now, waiting for Monday, when I will deliver them to their workplace destination. So if you work with Julie, start getting excited.
Sad that I never got to bake cookies with you. These look beautiful!
Those cookies look amazing!
They are properly amazing! You should go into the cookie making business.
wow, I think I never saw such pretty cookies before!
These are the most beautiful cookies I think I’ve ever seen! So fun yet sophisticated, what a treat to whoever received them!
For future frosting endeavors: melt it. Pop it into the microwave for about 30 seconds, then stir it up so it’s a uniform consistency. I use it for both cookies and cupcakes, because you get that nice flat surface you can do piping on pretty easily.