Not your cookie-cutter Christmas cookies
January 1st, 2010
Cookie cutting without cookie cutters
Along with rum balls, we made gingerbread cookies with icing! We used Paula Deen’s gingerbread recipe. The flavor was okay but not great, I thought it was too molasses-ey and not enough ginger-ey. Thusly, I won’t describe the cookie recipe in detail.
The fabulous part about these cookies was our total lack of cookie cutters, forcing us to use our own ingenuity to make cookie shapes. I think we did quite well. Here are some of our ideas:
- We used a snowman head-shaped measuring cup to make snowman head-shaped cookies!
- A champagne glass to make round (ball, ornament) shaped cookies
- For the rest, a knife – some good shapes were stars, christmas trees and probably the winner of the creativity contest, Johnny 5.
Assorted
Johnny 5, or as I sometimes call him due to my 80's-specific cultural ignorance, Jackson 5