When I was younger, I remember making sugar cookies on average 3 times a year. Valentine's Day, Halloween, and Christmas. Each year my family gets together to make Christmas cookies. Used to be we'd do it about the week before on a Saturday. Those were the easy days! Every year it would be me, my mom and my sister, which was pretty easy because we all lived together!
Then nieces and nephews came along. We now plan our cookie baking 3 months in advance so that everyone can request the day of from work, etc. (My nieces and nephews range in age from 28-16.) Interspersed throughout the years were neighbor kids, high school friends - hi Sarahphina!, college friends. Eventually, although not willingly, were boyfriends, fiancees and spouses of the cookie bakers. The boys would all huddle with my dad in the TV room to watch football while us artists slaved away. We finally made a rule that if they wanted to eat any, they had to decorate some. That got them moving and begrudgingly picked up the frosting. I might suggest setting some ground rules, however, if you do not want Hooters Angels in your Christmas gifts to the neighbors! Not exactly family friendly.
My nephew figured out early that he could make ugly cookies fast and that no one really wanted to eat the globs of chocolate and sprinkles and red hots he would pile on - he figured, the more for him! We called them alien cookies. He unfortunately has moved on into the football room these days. We miss him. : ) But did anyone tell him his cookies were ugly? No. Did anyone suggest they might not taste good or appeal in any way to someone else? No. I, on the other hand, decided one year to frost a star white and then strategically outline it with and cover it in yellow M&Ms. Fairly common to see yellow star cookies, am I right? Thank you, I knew you would agree. So my mom says out loud in this serious, condescending voice after looking over all the done cookies, "A yellow star? WHO would make a yellow STAR?" I think she thought it was my nephew. That phrase lives on in infamy, and has to be repeated at least once when someone decorates a cookie in an obvious manner. Like a green Christmas tree.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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