Mini Chefs

Shelly decided that she wanted to give a gift to all of her friends who have been so kind to her and the girls over the years but she is on a very tight budget. So, I suggested baking cookies; a true gift from the heart. Of course we had two tiny little chefs (uniforms compliments from one of Shelly's friends) who were not about to let us bake cookies without their help! We decided to bake sugar cookies....you know, mix the dough, roll it out and have fun with cookie cutters. Well, it didn't exactly work that way. We mixed the dough (I think the problem was we used a packaged mix), but when we tried to roll it out, it was one sticky mess. No matter how much flour we piled on the table and the rolling pin, that dough stuck to everything. Plan B had to go into effect because we were crunched for time since Trinity and Madison were due to go back to their Daddy's house the next day (drawback of divorce). So, we decided to just drop the cookies onto the cookie sheets and skip the cut-out part. We could still frost them and decorate them. So, we got our production line going and we baked a little over 100 cookies!! Then it was time to decorate which the girls were really looking forward to since they had gotten gypped out of using cookie cutters. Shelly found a cookie frosting recipe in a cookbook which was perfect.

So she and I frosted and handed the cookies over to the girls who were waiting with all the colored sugar, sprinkles and tiny tubes of colored frosting. In our zest to get those cookies frosted, we were not paying attention to the girls and their decorating until we turned around and spotted one cookie with about a pound of red colored sugar sprinkled on it! So we needed to stop for a quick lesson about how "less is best" when it comes to decorating cookies. They did great with the tubes of frosting.....one cookie ended up with a great face and how they managed to make it look like the cookie was wearing "shades" is beyond me but it was adorable! We managed to get the cookies finished and packaged up with some candy but realized one thing........

Next year we get and follow Great-Grandma Schmidt's sugar cookie recipe from scratch....you do not mess with perfection!