Christmas Cookies

I grew up loving sugar cookies. Christmas (or any holiday or family get together) meant sugar cookies with royal icing, made by my great grandma Ruth. She didn't do anything overly decorative or fancy, just dipped the tops of the cookies in a bowl of frosting close to flooding consistency (probably looser). Then if she felt like it each cookie would get a sprinkle of random non-pareils like these. I loved these cookies, in shapes of chickens, rabbits, hearts and other random, never holiday specific shapes. 


This year instead of making gingerbread cookies I decided to make sugar cookies. I made vanilla bean, brown sugar spice, chocolate chip, almond, and chocolate sugar cookies. They all received glowing reviews! I plan to tweak the recipes a bit and then they will be added to baked by Deese's list of available baked goods. I sadly forgot to take pictures of the brown sugar spice and chocolate chip cookies, but I did get pictures of the vanilla bean, almond, and chocolate.


I used royal icing colored using Americolor gels and jimmies, pearls, course sugar, and sanding sugar decorate.


The following pictures were snapped using my cell phone, they are apologetically terrible. I will be be making more cookies soon and will be sure to photograph them like supermodels!


Christmas Cookies 2011

Chocolate Poinsettias and Snowflakes and Almond Wreaths

Vanilla Bean Wreaths 

I am making more cookies this week, sadly still Christmas in nature (late presents), I will post the pictures when I get them done!