It’s a part of me I’ve kept hidden from you until now.
But the truth is, I have over 200 cookie cutters.
I know I showed you my Thanksgiving cookies last week, but you don’t know it’s really a serious habit. I also have been known to bake cookies for President’s Day, Groundhog’s Day and National Pick-up Truck Day.
It makes an unspeakable mess.
Mixing, refrigerating, cutting, baking, decorating, drying.
Usually four days of work for over 300 Christmas Cookies.
And if there’s any humidity in the air, like we sometimes have along the Gulf Coast, even in the winter, you can kiss your smooth royal icing goodbye.
I’ve been known to crank up the air conditioner to accommodate my cookie baking habit.
I actually enlarged this photo and gave it to an awesome teenage girl I know, named “Joy.”
Drying in the kitchen.
(sorry, can’t cook dinner – too many cookies in the way!)
Sometimes, I bag them up to give as gifts.
Other times, I just sit and eat every one of them myself.
And the finished product?
So fun.
My Great Grandmother stood me on a chair at her kitchen counter and we baked these cookies.
Then my Grandmother, then my Mom.
Remember how you gasped when I told you I own 200 cookie cutters? ( I heard you).
Well, Â my Mother has over 400.
Did I mention that we love to bake cookies?
Here are a few of my cutters under the cake dome.
In years past, I’ve also tied red bows onto both cutters and real cookies to a
Christmas tree in the kitchen.
Then, Lois the beagle ate the low hanging cookies. She even ate the red bows.
I also hung snowflake cookies from the kitchen chandelier.
Oooo! Magical – sugary – sweetness!
And the song we love to sing at Christmas?
Well, here it is . . .
Christmas Cookies
by
George Strait
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees, bells and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
Now, Christmas cookies are a special treat
The more she bakes the more I eat
And sometimes I can’t get myself to stop
Sometimes she’ll wait till I’m asleep
She’ll take the ones I didn’t eat
And put those little sprinkly things on top
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees, bells and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
Now those sprinkly things just makes things worse
‘Cause it makes them taste better than they did at first
And they’re absolutely impossible to resist
Some disappear to who knows where
But I make sure I get my share
And those kids just stand there waiting for the ones I miss
Sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
Sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
She gets mad that they’re all gone
Before she gets the icing put on
Sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
Now there’s a benefit to all of this
That you might have overlooked or missed
So now let me tell you the best part of it all
Every time she sticks another batch in the oven
There’s 15 minutes for some kissin’ and’a huggin’
That’s why I eat Christmas cookies all year long
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees, bells and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe [x2]
Happy Baking!
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