Friday, December 14, 2012

Baking 2012!

Alright, so I mentioned the baking, didn't I?  I should have.  It's been going on for 7 days now.  We took last night off due to it being poker night, of course, but every other night we've been baking away.  Let's have a bit of visualization, then.  



This is Mom and John putting icing on the gingerbread and sugar cookies.  John delved into his artistic side and decorated the gingerbread men (the whole three that he managed to do in two hours) with faces and accessories.  They look brilliant.  No one's allowed to eat his.  They are for display purposes only.



My favorite part about this image is that you can see the icing that he got stuck in his hair.



And here are some finished products.  You can tell which ones I did (where I simply sprinkled the chocolate bits onto the cookies)  and the ones John did (where they actually have proper faces).
 


Sugar cookies with white icing and colored sugar.



Before the icing and sugar.  The one gingerbread cookie in the corner was leftover from the main batch.  We'll send him off to a gingerbread orphanage.  (Which we'll then light on fire.)



Here, the two of them are rolling the jam cookie dough into small balls, and placing them on cookie sheets.



Which I would then take and make the depressions into them...



...and add the jam!



We made John mix the nut cup cookie dough with his hands.  That's really the only way to do that dough, because of its texture.  Flour, butter, and cream cheese just doesn't mix very well with any kind of utensils or mixing appliances.



He did it very well!  You can also see some of the finished jam cookies there on the table, too.  They came out brilliantly.

This weekend we'll be making chocolate dipped peanut butter balls, Hershey kisses cookies, nut cups, and a final pan of chocolate chip bars.  And I think that's everything.  

1 comment:

Sue Boyson said...

Thanks for these photos; John has told me all about it but it's nice to see him in action! I never thought I'd see the day.

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