christmas cookies

I baked cookies!

I used the cookie recipe from this December/Novembers Blueprint (don’t even get me started on the fact that my favourite magazine is shortly-to-be defunct - I am pretty upset about it, actually).

They turned out pretty well - even better because I added couple teaspoons of spices to make them more christmasy (1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp ginger and a pinch of nutmeg).

I had never thought of colouring the dough instead of icing sugar cookies before, but they turn out so, so pretty.

As you may know, I’m not much of a baker, so whenever I get the urge to bake I end up having to improvise:

1. You may notice that those cookies are drying on bamboo sushi mats (which is something I seem to unwittingly collect).
2. I cut the little flowers out with little metal cutters that are really meant to cut out vegetables to decorate sushi (not so much cookies).
3. I used a little glass to cut out the big round cookies, which is pretty tradtional, actually (I always think those round cookie cutters are kind of silly).

I think Alton Brown with his “no unitaskers” rule would be quite proud of me.