Hi Everyone! Sorry I've been absent more than usual. Work's keeping me hopping. Lots of extra Aunt duties this month too. And I don't mind one bit. Spending time with my nieces makes my soul sing loudest.
Being that it's mid-Dec, serious time with the Kitchen-Aide was in order to prep multiple cookie dough batters for gift production. The girls were a BIG help. Loved explaining all the steps to them. And seeing them soooo excited to watch the various stages. Of course I sounded like a broken record the majority of the time. "No we can't eat it yet, it's not ready." "Please don't put that in your mouth." No it's not ready yet." You get the picture.
They loved it so much in fact that I wasn't in the door more than 2 minutes on Sunday morning before they brought me out my apron to make cookies again. And the following minute paraded out with their aprons on. Very sweet and cute! It was always one of my dreams when thinking of my own family to share baking with little girls. So blessed that I get to share that experience with my lovely nieces.
Pictures will be forth coming later this week once I get them downloaded from my sister. We were very productive. The three of us made 2 batches of sugar cookies, 1 batch of chocolate chips and 1 snickerdoodle batch. During their "rest" times, I banged out 2 batches each of gingersnaps and peanut butter cookie dough. Gives me a good start on the cookie tins.
What is your favorite holiday cookie?
The girls LOVED every minute of it. You were so wonderful with them explaining everything and allowing them to help. The "don't eat it yet" and "Emmy, Emmy, EMMY" is quite tiring to say the least. We loved the company as always.
Posted by: Heather | December 16, 2009 at 05:34 PM