Each year on Christmas Eve our Children and Grandchildren come to our house where we eat a big meal, and we make iced cutout sugar cookies. Our grandchildren, Victor 5 and Mae 3, are always so excited to make the cookies. They get to roll out the dough and cut out the shapes. Then when the cookies are baked they get their own plate of icing, like a painters pallet, a plate for the cookies they are icing, their own plastic knife for spreading the icing, and all the sprinkles and toppings they want. They make a few cookies for Santa all the while licking their fingers, and sometimes their knife, which is why they get their own supplies. Then when they are finished with Santa's cookies they make a few of their own to eat right away.
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| Our Grandchildren get their own icing wheel and decorating plates and knives. |
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| Victor's creations for Santa |
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| Mae's creations for Santa. |
We have been making cutout cookies with our kids on Christmas Eve since the 90's so the excitement level from the adults when I mention cookie decorating is always lukewarm at best. Yet, when the baked cookies are done and the cups of colored icing with knives are set out, you cannot keep them away. The last few years it has turned into an unspoken competition on how to turn the designated cookie shape into something entirely different. It shows great imagination and skill when all they have to work with is a knife and soft icing.
Below are pictures of some of their creations from the last few years. The first picture is of a few of the cookie cutter shapes we use each year. They try to not repeat a creation from the following year.
You will also see I am using my new Christmas tablet pencil on the pictures. I wrote the cookie cutter shape on the left and what it was made into, just in case you couldn't guess, on the right.
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| Thank goodness they are not judged on neatness, lol. |
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