fall cookies: last year vs. this year

Oct 01

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, caleb isaiah, camera practice, crafty, i heart my camera, just another day in paradise, memories, parenting, photography

First off, go look at last year’s post here. Okay, back? Good. Let me tell you what I learned last year.

Last year…

I made sugar cookies (from scratch). I made icing (from scratch). I added food coloring drops. The cookies in the last picture? Yeah that was the whole batch. Grand total. I spent ALL DAY LONG in the kitchen.

This year…

I wandered over to the -food in a tube- section at Walmart and picked up a huge tub of Toll House sugar cookie dough. I then proceeded to the -I’m too lazy to even make the icing- section and got some white icing. At some point in the last year, I discovered the wonder that is Wilton Food Coloring gels over the in the craft section at Walmart. I now have a rainbow of colors (you will get much more vividly colored icing with these). I was stamping out cookies in no time. It was like a cookie making factory over here yesterday. Crazy I tell you. But easy.

Yes I heart made from scratch too, but it was just too much last year. Apparently sugar cookies are not my forte. So there, my secret is out. This plate full was taken to my mother inlaw and sister inlaw last night and I blabbed my secret there too because they just kept complimenting them and I thought, “Oh they’re just being nice, they’re not that good.” But I grabbed a few, and in all honesty, they are pretty tasty. Even with fake icing!

The calm before the storm arrived: