Valentine's Cookies!

I was glad to have an opportunity to make Valentine's Day cookies. We attended a game night at one of my high school friend's house last night. Everyone was expected to bring something. And of course, I bring cookies. My friend Andrea brought beer bread which was yummy, and Jose brought homemade taquitos, also very good. I found out last night, that I am amazing at the PS3 game Singstar, and that Ron was not willing to do it with me. He cannot come out of his comfort zone. Grr. Anyways, the cookies were a hit, and I tried some different designs, deciding to do them all with "wet" designs, i.e. designs that are done while the flooded icing is still wet.

Christmas goodies

I haven't been blogging lately. I also haven't been baking as much this month. We went to Florida this month, but we also hosted Christmas for the first time ourselves. So I did a lot of cooking and baking this last week, anyway. For Christmas dinner, I made Betty Crocker crescent rolls and cloverleafs, sugar cookies, KAF's chocolate-pecan pie, KAF's cinnamon twists (and boysenberry twists), and America's Test Kitchen's peanut butter blossoms and mint chocolate cookies. I would have documented the pie and some of the other treats, but pre-Christmas drama overwhelmed me. And since KAF does a good job of detailing the pie, and the twists and crescents I've made before, I will show you how I made the cookies from America's Test Kitchen's holiday cookie issue.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just thought I'd show you what I made for my Thanksgiving. I told my mother to leave me in charge of bread. I made crescent rolls, Italian bread and honey wheat rolls. And since I just made sugar cookies for the baby shower, I decided to make Thanksgiving cookies too! Enjoy the day!