If you come from a family that celebrates Christmas, then you've probably made your fair share of Christmas cookies in your lifetime. I certainly have. Every holiday season I looked forward to the day when we were going to make cookies. I loved eating the leftover dough, making every single shape I could with the cookie cutters (trying in vain to keep the reindeer legs attached to the body) and using each icing color and sprinkle shape we owned. Of course, my cookie zeal only lasted about 15 minutes and then I got tired of the endless process and mom was left with gagillions of undecorated cookies. With time she began to baste half the cookies with egg and and bake them with sprinkles, thus reducing the number that had to be iced.
I still love making cookies, and each year I try to get someone to make them with me so I don't have to decorate them all. This weekend I had the help of both roommates in the cookie decorating and we managed to ice each and every cookie in the batch! We decided on a winter theme, using only the mitten, teapot, heart, and snowflake cookie cutters. Here are the results (a small sampling, really) of our labors:
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