B is for Baking

I’ve picked up a new hobby – and a not so healthy one I might mention.

I have found that I LOVE to bake cookie cutter sugar cookies from scratch and decorate them with homemade frosting/icing. I’ve found and tweaked a wonderful recipe that we all love…which leads to the not-so-healthy part of this new hobby….eating them. Well wait..there is some nutritional value in cookies, right?! Eeekkk!

It all started shortly before Christmas when I signed up to bring cookies to Jathan’s daycare Christmas party. For whatever reason, I was determined that I would NOT buy store bought packaged cookies. I made a trial run batch of Christmas tree and candy cane shaped cookies to practice on and they turned out great! I was hooked! It was so fun; they looked and tasted great; and I barely got frustrated during the whole process (and for those who know me well, know that I get frustrated when I have my mind set to do something like this and it doesn’t turn out just perfectly like I imagined)! What more could you ask for?!

I bought a cute set of Valentine cookie cutters and was anxious to use them, so on Monday night I baked heart shaped cookies of all sizes. We turned it in to a family fun night and all sat at the kitchen table decorating them together. Jathan really enjoyed shaking sprinkles on his cookie and swiping a finger full of icing in between shakes!

Here are some snaps of Jathan decorating his cookie, his finished product, and him enjoying the fruits of his labor.