Sugar Cookies

This might be my favorite post in my favorite week. Favorite. Cookies are my achilles heel. I can’t ever turn one down. To say the least, I was excited for Ceri and I to have this time together with our daughters making treats for the holidays. And, hell, if I end up having to eat some cookies then I’m here to take one for the team.

With all the bazillion holiday cookie recipes out there in the universe, we thought it was best to do a simple sugar cookie. I also found this great recipe that used whole wheat pastry flour and wasen’t too loaded with butter. As you can see, this wasn’t a baking competition yeilding perfect looking specimens of snowmen and stars. These are cookies made by kids, for families. It’s exactly how the holidays should look and feel–perfectly imperfect. I couldn’t love these cookies more.

Photos by Maya Visnyei

As you can see, we didn’t have two rolling pins. The girls found it hysterical that they had to use a wine bottle. If only we could have un-corked it for the mommies.

Scarlett could have sat at the table all day cutting those things out.

I made a homemade frosting the girls used to decorate. We didn’t want any unnecessary food coloring (we already had a ton of candy), so I left it white.

Esme had fun eating the frosting off the mixer.

I crushed candy cane’s in the food processor and put out red hots and other holiday themed sweeties.

I’m pretty sure the girls weren’t fussed by the messy hands. It definitely wasn’t torture to have to lick them clean. It was just torture getting it off the floor. But, hey, who’s looking.