Christmas Cookies.....

Hello!! And Happy Monday...Happy new week....Happy 9 sleeps 'til Christmas!!! Eeeekk!! Actually it's probably not really too eeekkish around here. Sure we are living in a complete mess slightly creative looking environment at the moment, we are winding up for the school year, and we are still attending school and Christmassy events but we are lord-I-hope-so-anyway fairly ready for Xmas. So...today I thought I'd share, or rather "re-share", a fave recipe with you because I do believe every house, especially for occasions like Christmas, need it. I came across the original recipe in an old Donna Hay kids mag and have been whipping them up a.l.o.t since......

                                                                                 

                                                                                   

It's super easy, the dough comes together nicely, it also rolls out without any dramas and most important of all.......

                                                                                   

They just taste delicious. Crunchy...vanilla-ry.....sweet.....you get the picture.....

                                                                                 

So the kids and I hit the kitchen on the weekend and baked up a batch of these. They loved cutting out the Xmas shapes...the transferring of the shapes onto the baking tray was taken over performed by me just so that there were no hysterical tears (from the children...NOT me!!) if the shapes got a little squished but apart from that they were pretty capable of doing most of the job themselves....

                                                                                   

Then came the 'fun' part.....decorating them!!! For this we simply whipped up a batch of vanilla icing, poured half into another bowl and coloured it green, then scooped both lots into their own plastic ziplock bag and snipped a little hole in a bottom corner....we now have piping bags! Now pipe away!!!

                                                                                   

I love these...fun, pretty (well, most of them anyway!?!) and made with love. And a fair amount of wet licked fingers.

                                                                               

So click away here and get yourself and the fam in the kitchen!!

Enjoy...and have a fab week.....


                                                                    Janelle  xx