this weekend, we tackled christmas cookie baking '09.
it was a whirlwind of flour, butter and sugar. we made peanut butter cookies w/ chocolate icing + macadamia nut/white chocolate chip/cranberry cookies + rosie's famous italian knots + everyone's favorite... grandma's cut out cookies.
ta da:
cranberry/white chocolate chip/macadamia nut cookies. these are fab, if i do say so myself. email me if you want the recipe. trust me here, you want the recipe.
with or without chopped pecans on top? i like 'em with. kids like 'em without.
rosie's famous recipe knots in background. (yummy) one of my favorite christmas elves working on cut out cookies in foreground.
while ben decorates cookies, my dad watches our steelers beat the packers.
this is serious business, people.
grandma pitches in. we are almost finished!
again with the knots. i think i made them a little bit too big. but still yummy. one of these days we have to learn how to make jeannie's famous knots. which are enormous. and fantastic.
also this weekend, we had a sleep over with walter and lucy. we drove through the hartwood lights in our jammies. and in the morning, we made doughnuts! (because what else would you make during christmas cookie baking 09?
cousin love. how cute are they?
dough looks like this:
starts to get a little more exciting here:
next everyone gets a bag of sugar + cinnamon. shake it!