A dear friend of mine came to visit before Christmas and together we decided to fulfill something on my Christmas to-do list: make Christmas cookies. I'm talking about the kind where you make the dough from scratch, have to refrigerate the dough before rolling it out, cookie cutting it, pan laying, baking, pan scraping, and cooling it. That's just the first half. What we discovered was that even halving our recipe make a TON of cookies, all of which we felt obligated to ice. We labored over just the right tasting butter cream icing, flavors, and colors. We laid everything out on the table with all of our supplies. It was perfect. We had Christmas music on in the background as we began to decorate. And decorate. And decorate. After an hour or so of well, decorating, we grew weary. We no longer cared if the icing was perfectly adorning the little bells, trees and stars. If it had some sort of icing on it, it was good. Done. Move onto the next cookie! When we were finally done with our cookie project, there was much rejoicing and vowing to never make or decorate cookies again for a very. long. time.
I write the above to remind myself of a good memory made with a friend. A friend who helped make and clean up the cookie madness. What boggles me as I sit here typing is what in the world would possess me to take on a similar project ALONE?!?! Was it the pretty heart shaped cookie cutters I found at Wally World? Was it my current preoccupation with pink? Was it pride that made me scoff at the grocery's version of what my baking genius has been?! ACK!!!!!!
Dear friends, I would go on, but I must leave you now. The kitchen beckons. The icing is yelling at me, threatening to dry out, as do the remaining 4 dozen undecorated cookies. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day. Hopefully one in which I'll remember my past ventures and leave the cookie making aspirations until a sweet friend can join the madness with me.
P.S. The cookies are super cute and tasty if I do say so myself. Lots of pink, chocolate chips and festive nonpareils.
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