Christmas Cookies!

Today is Christmas Eve! I finally got to start making our Christmas cookies. 

I made chocolate chips, brown sugar stars, cranberry cookies, and spritz.

The spritz are a lot of fun! We don't get to eat food coloring a lot, but we're allowed to color the dough for these. Anna picked green, and I think it looks like Play Doh.

Spritz cookies are fun because you can make fancy designs pretty easily. You fill this tool - it's called a cookie press - with the dough.

You put a cover on the end, and that's the design it will be. I made red flowers, Anna made green Christmas trees.

You squeeze the handle of the cookie press, and hold the end with the design down on the cookie sheet. Mine came out in flower shapes!

It takes some practice. Can you guess which cookies I made first?

Then, you can add colored sugar or jimmies. 

You can pour on the decorations however you like.

I also made chocolate chip cookies with super big chunks.

Here the first sheet, ready to go in the oven!

We'll leave some out tonight for Santa... and then we'll get to have some tomorrow.

Well... and we had to sample our work today, too! :P

Merry Christmas!