It's funny how you can be inspired to do something you had no intention of doing. Such was the case when I saw the Christmas cookies made by a friend's sister - I'll call her 'M' - and before long I was baking simple sugar cookies.
The brown edges aren't as noticeable once the cookies are decorated.
These cookies were to go to a seniors' gathering that evening and since I was behind time, I was most grateful that M let me use her designs. I marvelled at the perfect little dots on her cookies. How did she do that? So I was pretty pleased when my dots turned out looking like tiny green peas on my tree cookies. The runny green icing was more unruly for drawing lines, however. Maybe it mattered that I just mixed icing sugar with skim milk instead of making royal icing.
Who would have thought of turning circular cookies into snowflakes? I wouldn't have. This is a copy of M's design and layout except that her snowflake patterns are perfectly symmetrical and her cookies were more tidily arranged. But I was in a mad rush at this point.
The designs for the little people were taken from an internet picture. They were supposed to have faces but I couldn't manage that sort of detail. A hunt for new decorating tips is probably in my future.
I had planned to do some decorating with chocolate on the shortbread cookies scattered around the outside of the platter and arrange everything nicer, but if I didn't hurry, my cookies would have shown up when everyone had gone home! Slap, slap, slap, down went the cookies, a big sheet of Christmas-design cellophane was wrapped overtop, and whoosh out the door it went.Regardless of the imperfections, I think it looked quite festive. And actually, it was fun.
You did an amazing job! Mine took hours. I slaved. So if you just slapped those together, you are a natural! I really like your trees! You have a much funkier cookie cutter than I do. And I stole the snowflake design from "R" So I can't take credit. Well done and Happy Holidays! I bet they were a hit!
ReplyDeletePS. I think it's better not to make them too perfect. The guests at my parents Christmas Party thought mine came from Costco! >: (
Thank you. I suppose they were a hit because they were all gone that night.
ReplyDeleteCostco! Maybe that can be taken as a compliment that they looked professional, but I think yours would look better than anything produced at Costco.