Cookies

Have you ever tried making cookies with a 3 year old?  It was definitely interesting to say the least but Lily really enjoyed it so I guess that is all that matters.  She asked if we could make gingerbread men which I had never done before so of course I said sure.  We had a little problem with the dough which did not make this endeavor any easier.  Lily is also quite stubborn and doesn't like to let anyone show her how to do something, she is more the trial and error type.  She cut out the first tray of cookies but then I sat her down at the table and let her decorate so I could cut out the rest.  She dumped quite a few sprinkles (read the whole bottle) on quite a few of the cookies and then I showed her how to put mini m&m's on them and she went to town with those.  As you can see by the pictures some of the sprinkles and m&m's also managed to find their way into Lily's tummy.  I managed to make a couple other kinds of cookies while she was other wise engaged but have a couple more I'd still like to do and I'm sure I will have my little helper for those as well.

Holiday Baking

I am trying not to get too crazy with the Christmas cookie this year since Lily's school just had a fund raiser selling cookie dough and I've now got 20+ pounds of dough in my freezers already. This year I am going to make:

1. Spritz Cookies
2. Chocolate Peanutbutter Rice Krispie bars
3. Frosted Raisin Spice cookies
4. Rolled Sugar Spice cookie
5. Old fashioned roll out sugar cookies that we'll be making with my mom so Lily can help decorate, I'm not brave enough to let her help on my own.