In life, when it comes to certain important moments, we do a practice run… a run through… a dress rehearsal… before the big event. I’m glad I did a dry run for decorating my holiday sugar cookies this year because I discovered that boy, I really stink at it! LOL! Good thing I can bake a tasty cookie because this post is proof positive that I cannot decorate a pretty cookie. But that’s okay, that’s why I used this as an opportunity to practice because I’m determined to improve… and hopefully rather quickly because Christmas is right around the corner and my co-workers are already talking about how they’re looking forward to my cookies!
That’s right – it’s Tuesday and we’re baking with Dorie. This week’s recipe was for Grandma’s All Occasion Sugar Cookies and was chosen by Ulrike of the blog Küchenlatein. I halved all the ingredients and made only a half batch of cookies as slice-and-bake as opposed to rolling out and using cookie cutters. I did this primarily because I just wanted to try out the recipe… but I also wanted to try out making royal icing and doing simple decorating. The cookies do taste very good – I will not lie one bit! These cookies are incredibly tasty! Instead of just using vanilla extract I used half vanilla and half lemon. I find this gives a “cleaner” tasting cookie. I had no trouble getting the dough to come together or roll into logs although quiet obviously my logs were too skinny and my cookies turned out just slightly larger than the size of Ritz crackers. The recipe says they puff up but I didn’t find that to be the case – I sure wish they would’ve puffed up because then perhaps my cookies would’ve been a decent size! LOL. Oh well, live and learn. Perfect practice makes perfect so I’d better start perfect practicing because these are far… far… from perfect. But that’s okay…
This is why we do a practice run….. right? HAHAHAHAHAHA
If you’d like this recipe it is on pages 146-147 of Dorie’s book “Baking From My Home To Yours”. Additionally you can find it on our hosts blog. Also, take a moment and check out the other TwD bakers because I’m sure they can decorate :)
Have a delicious day!
