Oh My! It's been almost a month since I last posted anything on my blog! I guess I really was busy for the holidays.
Well, now that the volleyball season is over and I have a bit of a break from school for a few more weeks, I figured I better keep you posted on all our goings on in the village.
Even though I've been baking my heart out during the volleyball season, to help fundraise for our team, I STILL chose to get into the Christmas spirit and make some holiday cookies. Actually, these little gingerbread guys were for our kids bible club at church. It was my turn to bring snacks for them. So, one Friday morning, I thought, "No problem, I'll just whip up a few simple and fun gingerbread cookies for the kids." What was I thinking? About 30 minutes into my endeavor, I was regretting the choice of cookies. I totally forgot how LONG it takes to make them, roll them out, cut them out, bake them, make the icing AND finally decorate them! Three or four hours later (I lost track of time, can you tell?) I was finished! Thank goodness! Next year, I'll have my blog to remind me NOT to make gingerbread cookies again! ha ha!
Why can't MY cookies look like the ones in the magazine below? Magazines.....their all liars! No one can make those little guys as easy as they make it look! Are you kidding me? Who gets their icing so perfect in that great thin little line all around the edge of the cookies?
Me? Well, clearly, my gingerbread men were not going to win any "best dressed contest" at their party. I guess you can say, they were going to attend their party in a sort of Alaskan style.....in their snow suits and all bedazzled out! ha ha! You see, I started out making the icing just the way the magazine said. I mixed it just as long as the directions said to. Then I put it all in a plastic baggy, cut off the edge and voila....I was SUPPOSED to be able to make super thin little icing lines just like the picture below. Of course, nothing in my life ever goes right, so what happened next was the disaster. The icing all blobbed out of the bag super fast and smeared everywhere! Then the top of the bag busted and I had icing all over my hand, the table, on a few cookies AND the floor! Seriously! If I ever have kids, we are NOT making gingerbread cookies. So, I had to remedy the problem fast, so I broke out the spatula and just started spreading the icing everywhere - trying to cover all the little guys. They were so pathetic, so I thought, well, what else could I do to help them out....ah ha! Sprinkles! Every kid loves cookies with sprinkles at Christmas, right? So that was my solution. Cover up your ridiculous cookie icing blunders with a bunch of little red and green sugar crystals. Load the kids with sugar and they'll never know how much trouble a little gingerbread man can be!
The way my little guys were SUPPOSED to look.....yeah right!!
Are these even real? I bet they're just paper or some doctored up photoshopped picture!
The final product...all dressed up and on their way to the little kiddos at church.
Bob always says I destroy the kitchen when I cook, so after the saga of the gingerbread men, I took a step back and laughed. He was right. I don't know why I even chose to document this except that my mom keeps bugging me for pictures of my house. I guess this wasn't quite what she wanted, but oh well! Do you like the blue color we painted in the kitchen? I do!
