Saturday: I had made the sugar cookie dough and refrigerated it over night, ready to bake first thing Saturday morning. [Note to self: in the future, do NOT refrigerate cookie dough overnight--it takes FOREVER to thaw out and be workable!!!!] I got up at 6:30 AM and rolled out, cut, and baked cookies all morning!
I watched a Youtube video about painting sugar cookies--which was a very good tutorial by the way! They suggested that the cookies be glazed before painting them. So that's what I did! I glazed the cookies using this recipe: 1C confectioner's sugar, 1T light Karo corn syrup and 2T's of water. The glaze is quite runny, so it's a little tricky--but the glaze dries quite quickly and just puts a thin layer of color on the cookie. You can color the glaze if you want--I did color the stars (yellow) and the trees ... as well as the little teddy bears. You can paint later right on top of the glaze.
"My" girls came over mid-afternoon and we painted cookies for quite some time. It was relaxing and fun. Kaity stuck with it for an entire 30 minutes and did a very good job on her cookies!
Emma, who has a lot more patience than Kaity, painted with ease and made some beautiful cookies!
I think the project was a success. It sure wasn't as messy as decorating with frosting--and since these kiddos do not really like a lot of sugar, this is a better less-sugary way to make the cookies pretty.
Matey was a bit of a pain in the neck while we were doing our cookies, so we had to "lock" him in his little house while we painted. Poor little bird just doesn't take "no" for an answer ... but we love him. The girls and I played a few games of "MEMORY" after we were finished decorating the cookies and ate a meal together--then we drove Kaity-Girl back to Jesse.
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