Monday, December 30, 2013

"Twas the Day Before Christmas..."

We spent all day on Christmas Eve making cookies for Santa! First up were Red Velvet Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies - YUM YUM!! As you can see, one girl loved them and one did not! Brooklyn has a super sweet tooth, Brynn not so much.

She prefers the plain old white cookies (or dough as we all know licking the beaters is the best part!)

Brooklyn had enough of the backing early into it. After she had her beater - or 2 or 3 - she was off and running.

Brynn worked on her cookies all day long! Here she's helping to roll the red velvet cookies into powdered sugar before baking.

They're almost ready!

These were SO good!

Next up - cutout cookies. The one's that take forever but are so fun to do and decorate!

Brynn was really good at these. She did them all by herself - the rolling, cutting and putting them on her tray! I was impressed.


Ready for the oven!

They look pretty good for a 3 year old!


Uh oh - this could be trouble! Brynn saved a small (very small) piece of dough for Brooky so she could have a turn when she woke up. We gave her the mini spatula and a rocking horse cookie cutter.

She actually did really well!

Here we are making a choo choo train on the couch while the cookies were baking.
This, of course, was her favorite part!


Think she has enough sprinkles?!