Ow
I baked a bunch of spritz cookies, and that was it. The cutout dough had to chill a bit more. The mice were a disaster. Geez...I had to poke a skewer through their behinds while they were still hot and insert a piece of shoestring licorice for the tail. That kind of behavior on my part reminded me slightly of the Iraqi prison scandals.
I kid. I kid.
Actually, I burned my left middle finger trying to cram the licorice up some mouse's a$$, so I got mad and gave up.
I think I have enough to give away anyhoo...5 tins worth of cookies, now that I look.
And, please pause for a moment in remembrance of my timer, which I knocked from the table to its death.
Must-win situation
I have a LOT of catching up to do. I've been out shopping and such the past few nights. Tomorrow's the Christmas luncheon, and I want to give out little bags of cookies. That means I need to bake some more cookies. This is going to be a late one, kids. I have a few objectives:
1) My boss (aka the BIG BOSS) likes elephants. He collects them. So I'm going to make cutout cookies tonight, and cut out some elephants for his bag. But where do I get an elephant cookie cutter? I can't. Unless I want to pay $20 for a 'circus animals set.' Right. So I downloaded an image from google of an elephant cookie cutter, messed with it in PhotoShop, and will use that as a template.
2) I have to finish those Christmas mice.
3) I'm going to make some spritz cookies. Cripes. I can crank out 100 of them with very little effort.
4) Maybe some pizzelles. If I don't pass out first.
To get into the spirit, I'm donning a santa cap with my santa apron. Anyhoo, to keep me company, email
cookiecam@ladygypsy.net or IM cookiecamlady on Yahoo Instant Messenger.
And here's a photo from Monday night to make you chuckle. Cams coming on in a few minutes.
Pressing on
Hiya! Despite my exhaustion and aches in the shoulders (Tired muscles from carrying stuff in the house this weekend? Impending heart attack from absorbing too much butter through the skin? Who knows.) tonight I'm going to make the
Christmas Mice dough I mixed last night. I'll also bake some Oatmeal Raisin cookies and perhaps mix up some pinwheel cookie dough if I'm feeling ambitious. Click the photo on the right to open the CookieCam!
As always, you can IM 'cookiecamlady' on Yahoo Instant messenger, or send a note to me at
cookiecam@ladygypsy.net if you want to say hi!
If you get bored, you can skitter off and read one of my favorite true
Christmas stories. If I'm blessed with a daughter someday, I'd love to name her Virginia...but that name is too ripe for teasing.
Off to the kitchen!
Deja vu
Remember the scant few peanut butter cookies that DIDN'T end up on the floor? Well, they were eaten. So tonight is peanut butter cookies part 2. Or, Peanut Butter Cookies: Reloaded. Peanut Butter Cookies 2: Electric Boogaloo? (With bonus "Directors Cut" footage of Kim cleaning her kitchen)
And for the curious, my ooogly green t-shirt has a picture of a reindeer on it and says "Vixen."
By the way, I'm cookiecamlady on Yahoo Instant Messenger.
