Monday, December 26, 2011

Sugar Cookie Day and a Gingerbread House

(Edited to add gingerbread house pictures...oops!)

Every year, the children and I have a tradition of making and decorating sugar cookies, and also making a gingerbread village.  This year, I bought a gingerbread house kit, so I did most of the decorating, but we used Dorie Greenspan's sugar cookie recipe (with lemon zest rubbed into the sugar -- yummy!) from this book, of course.

Daisy, Sparky, Max and Billy, cutting out sugar cookies
The whole proccess takes a while, as does anything with small children, so by the time we finished stamping out the shapes, Lavella had just had enough.  A good long nap followed shortly after this shot.

Sparky, Max and Billy, cutting out sugar cookies

Sparky, Max and Billy, cutting out sugar cookies

Sprinkles for decorating the sugar cookies
Some superfun sprinkles that I found at Target.

Sparky and Max decorating sugar cookies
By the time that we got around to the decorating, both of the little guys were solidly asleep for their afternoon naps, so Elijah helped them out after dinner to fully sprinkle their own cookies.

Max, decorating sugar cookies

Sparky, decorating sugar cookies

Sparky and Max decorating sugar cookies

Sparky and Max decorating sugar cookies
Cookie Monsters

Sparky and Max decorating sugar cookies

Stamping out circles with the re-rolled scraps of dough
I used my favorite vintage biscuit cutter to stamp out circles with the re-rolled scraps of dough left over, and gave them a simple (and slightly more grown-up) apricot glaze.

Apricot Glazed Sugar Cookies

Gingerbread House 2011

Gingerbread House 2011

Gingerbread House 2011

2 comments:

Jilldarling1973 said...

Hey Andrew & Elijah, Lavella &Jonah,

Your decorated cookies look so festive and artistic! They look good enough to eat. Can I have some? The gingerbread houses are amazing! How fun! The roof looks so cool with the round peppermints on top.

I love you, 

Nana

marissa stanfield said...

looks like fun!