With the kids off for Christmas vacation, we set to work making some sugar cookies and decorating them. Over the years, we have perfected the technique -- the cookie cutters are set out in the middle of the table and each kid is given an equal amount of sugar cookie dough to work with. There is only one rolling pin (one that I have had for SO many years) and they have learned to take turns.
The dough has been chilled and is ready to go:
Jack is still learning about how much flour to use when rolling:
One of Samantha's favorite cookies to make is an upside-down elf, which will later be frosted into a reindeer.
Perfect rolling technique.
One of the most important aspects of rolling/cutting cookies is to proportion the cutters on the dough in order to maximize the number of shapes you can make. Jimmy has mastered this.
Sophia was in her element all morning.
I laughed to myself because the kids all seem to sit in the same spots whenever I pull this table out for holiday events such as cookie cutting and decorating, coloring Easter eggs, etc. The boys are on one side of the table (in the same spot) ...
And the girls are on the other side of the table, in the same spots. Always.
Once the shapes are cut, I load them onto a cookie sheet and transfer batch after batch of the cookies to and from the oven.
Depending on our schedule, we will either decorate the cookies later the same day that they were baked, or wait until the next day. This year, we waited until the next morning.
I laid out a disposable tablecloth, which makes the clean-up so much easier, and set up plastic trays to work on with lots of sprinkles and colored frosting.
See?! The boys sat in the same spots again. Ha!
The girls spend a lot of time focused on details.
Sam's reindeer were done and she moved on to decorating an ornament.
Jack had the idea to make some pool balls.
The reindeer are done! (I'm not sure why one of them was upside down though!).
Sophia made a pizza:
Jimmy was most proud of his snowman:
The finished products, drying on the counter, with a few plain ones for those that do not care for the sweet frosting:
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