As it happens, s group of med students with kids planned a cookie decorating party at the med school. I looked up a shortening free, old fashioned cookie recipe and we went to town. Since you have to chill the cookie dough, it was a two-day affair. The only sad news was that our little hand mixer couldn't mix more than about half of cookie dough. Jody had to do the rest by hand. We now have a solution to this problem, (but that is another post all by itself). Below are some pictures of our the great cookie epic.
It took us a while to figure out that we had to use A LOT of flour when rolling out the dough to cut out the shapes. We took a trip to a very trendy kitchen shop in downtown Hanover and Ethan picked out this cookie cutter.
We only have one cookie sheet, so it took us almost two hours to get through the four dozen cookies that resulted from our epic labors.
As is the prerogative of any cook when in his kitchen, Ethan occasionally took samples of the product, for Quality Assurance purposes only I assure you.
Mama joined us with our cookies at the med school lounge and guided Ethan through his first time frosting cookies.
Some of the final products...
2 comments:
Helpful tip of the day, use confectioners sugar to roll out the dough, it won't make your dough tough like the flour will and you can re-roll the dough a few extra times. I learned this from Alton Brown on the Food Network.
Ha ha !!... Looks like Ethan likes to cook in the nude, like his buddy Paul.
Proof with pictures for this December post :
http://kekefamily.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-betise-du-jour.html
I hope you are enjoying the snow and can't wait to be back in Sachem ! See you soon !! xx
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