Cookie Decorating!

Yesterday Addie decided she wanted to make pink frosted heart cookies with pink sprinkles on top!!  The boys thought that decorating cookies sounded like a great idea, so off to the store we went to get all of the necessary supplies.  We even found a

turkey shaped cookie cutter!!  Once we got home we quickly whipped up some

sugar cookie dough and set to work with the rolling and cutting.  Our first batch was a complete

disaster as all of the turkeys morphed into big blobs of cookies and did not retain their shape at all!!

All was well though as it gave us something to munch on while we rethought our dough thickness

and cookie sheet layout strategy!  The next batch turned out much better (the shapes were actually recognizable!)--we had acorns, oak leaves and turkeys.  I think we made 6 batches of cookies,

with some hearts thrown in just for Addie!

Of course, children waiting for cookies to cool is not a pretty sight (or sound) so we stayed occupied

designing our powdered sugar frostings and laying out waxed paper to

save on cleanup. 

I had so much fun watching the approach each child took to decorate their cookies. Addie just

wanted everything to be pink and covered in sprinkles (and very messy!)  Tristan wanted to do

as many as he could with loads of frosting on top.  Kaelan wanted each one to look "real" so he really took

his time and concentrated on each one, designing them to look as realistic as possible.  Even I had

fun decorating cookies with the kiddos.

While we decorated we listened to our "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" cd and sang along and told all of the parts of the story that we knew.  Tristan thought that it was rather humorous that we were

listening to Christmas music while we were decorating Thanksgiving cookies!

I have to admit that we have not made or decorated cookies much lately, mainly due to me

just being too busy or not wanting to deal with the mess afterwards, but our afternoon spent together

was truly enjoyable--I can't wait to do it again soon!  I hope you are all hungry for cookies!!