Cookies

Christmas means cookies, lots of cookies. We pulled out the cook books, the recipe binders and set out to make a list of what to make. The list grew, and grew and grew - we now have at least 15 different types of cookies on our want list and only a few days to bake...
On Friday morning, with the CD player stacked with Christmas CDs,  we set out to make our first batches of cookies, and enlisted much needed help from Isabel all decked out in her apron. We mixed and sampled, stirred and ate more, rolled balls of dough and placed them on cookie sheets, and ate some more. Miraculously, some dough even made it into the oven before it was consumed. The cooling racks were stacked high with cookies, although the stacks seemed to shrink every time I turned around.. not sure who still had room for more....

At the end we had six different kinds of cookies, and one dough resting in the fridge since we plum ran out of time and energy. A truly sweet morning, which was capped off with Lukas reading Christmas stories out loud for Isabel and anyone within earshot. Now, if I can only find some room in the freezer to keep some of these cookies for Christmas... the containers seem to have a vanishing vapor in them, when sitting out on the counters, the cookies disappear...