Well, my official Christmas season is underway today.  We have started rolling out and punching out sugar cookies, one of our most favorite Christmas eatable items.  I like to get everyone involved in the making of my sugar cookies, and I do mean everyone.  Of course Garrett is ready to help, and with a little and I do mean very little persuading Chelsea is happy to help too.

What looks like flour on the counter top, is actully powdered sugar.  Powdered sugar is really great to use when rolling out a sweet dough–it helps from drying out the dough as you roll it out over and over.

Remember to turn your cookie sheet 180° about half through the bake.  These were finishing at about 8 minutes, so I turned them at the 4 minute mark. Remove them from the oven just as the edges begin to brown.  Let them sit on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes and then place them on the cooling rack.

As I mentioned above, I like to get everyone involved in making my Christmas sugar cookies.  The tradition at my house is in order to get your Christmas dinner you must first paint at least 3 cookies. I choose 3 so you can take two of them home to leave out for Santa, and one to stay at my house to fill my cookie platter. These cookies won’t get painted till Christmas Eve.  So, I will post the pictures of these cookies probably  on Christmas day.  Till then, please enjoy a few shots of Christmas past…

Christmas 2004

Christmas 2004