Christmas Cookies

Our other Christmasy day-before-Thanksgiving activity was baking cookies.

We made three kinds: sugar cookies (with no frosting), peanut butter cookies (with peanut butter cups), and ginger thins. We listened to Mannheim Steamroller Christmas CDs while we were working, which was fun.

The sugar cookies were "Sugar Drop Cookies with Oil", from Joy of Cooking.

Lots of ingredients.

Putting dry ingredients in the sifter...it looks like a snowy mountain.

It looks like snow after you put it in the sifter too.
You can see it falling!

You make little balls of dough and roll them in a bowl of sugar.
This is a good time to take a lot of tastes of the dough.

Benedick washed the cookie sheets as we emptied them.

Finished sugar cookies! Don't they look good?

We got the recipe for the peanut butter cookies from a recipe Mom got from a friend a while back.

Making the peanut butter cookies.

The dough in the fridge next to our Thanksgiving turkey.

Peanut butter cups ready to go on the cookies.

Finished peanut butter cookies!

The last cookies were Helena's specialty: Ginger Thins from Joy of Cooking. Helena always says she will never make them again, because they are so much work, but Mara talked her into it.

Helena making the ginger thins.

The finished ginger thins!

We're going to send some of the cookies to friends away at college, but we definitely get some for ourselves too. I wish all of you were here to help taste them too!