Christmas Cookie Craze

Every year I take one day off of work to do all of my Christ­mas bak­ing. This year, I took last Fri­day off since we were hav­ing peo­ple over on Sat­ur­day. Last year I did it ear­lier, and we barely had any cook­ies left by the time Christ­mas Day rolled around. So, I waited a bit longer this year. This year I made:

• Cut out Sugar Cook­ies with But­ter Icing (I use almond extract instead of vanilla)
• But­ter­balls (Russ­ian Tea Cakes)
• Choco­late Thumbprints
• Glazed Pecans (these are SO easy and yummy!)
• Spritz

Ty really did a great job in help­ing me in the morn­ing. He is get­ting great at crack­ing eggs, mea­sur­ing and stir­ring.

Of course he loved lick­ing the beat­ers and spat­u­las even more after the doughs were made!



Spritz cook­ies

The cookie press has to be one of the great­est inven­tions ever!


But­ter­balls

He’s so good at cut­ting them out too now!



Thank good­ness my sis­ter came over to help me fin­ish up dec­o­rat­ing because I was SO exhausted from bak­ing all day.

Being goofy

Now we know where he gets it!

Choco­late thumbprint cook­ies

One of Carissa’s designs

She made a stock­ing for each of us and even one for Squirt (our Elf on the Shelf)