Christmas Cookies
Greetings to all.
Xavier, his exuberance for Christmas unabated, decided he wanted to bake Christmas cookies today. Where he came up with that idea I don't know. He brought it up out of the blue.
I thought this was a wonderful idea. I have fond memories of pressing and decorating cookies at Christmas.
After breakfast and church, Xavier had not forgotten. Rebecca is out of town this weekend, and I had no idea where any ingredients for cookies might be found (Rebecca keeps cooking supplies which are strange to me).
Xavier and I poked around. We found the cookie press my mother owned and the holiday dies germane to Christmas. We even found the recipes for the cookie dough with the press.
Amazingly, we found sugar, and after much searching some flour I understood how to use. There would be no trip to the store. Yippee!
Xavier and I bravely figured out how to use the Kitchen Aid mixer and whipped up enough dough for about 48 cookies. While the mixer turned the dough, we brought out of storage the sprinkles, red-hots and other decorative candies needed for cookies.
We made trees, wreathes and camels. We ran out of dough before we could make stars.
Xavier pressed the cookies onto the sheet while I held the press so it did not slide around. We made a good team.