Sunshine Cookies
Nebraska has been snowed in. The holidays are upon us. So I baked some cookies.
"Will they be crisp, crunchy cookies?" my husband asked, a hopeful gleam in his eye.
"Nope. The recipe says they'll be soft and chewy."
"Aww"
"Will they be insanely frosted sugar cookies?" my oldest son asked, with an eerily similar hopeful gleam.
"Nope. I wasn't planning on frosting them at all."
"Aww"
But then, of course, the creativity reaction kicks in. They could be decorated. With cheery little sunbursts and sunwheels. It wouldn't take a lot of icing, and you could pipe it from a baggie. It would be so easy to do. There's cream cheese in the fridge, and you have grand marnier. And ginger, and cinnamon. And food coloring -- it could be a nice soft sunshiny orange-yellow.
While musing about this, I let the cookies stay in the oven a tad too long. They overbaked.
Well then. They need a little compensation now.
So I whipped up some icing, and started piping cheery little sunbursts.
As I was piping the icing, I realized the color I'd whipped up was nearly exactly cheez-from-a-can yellow. AUGH. It was especially obvious in the center of the designs, where the lines crossed. So I piped on more icing to make little sun disks in the center of the rays and swirls, to try to make them look more like suns and less like pasteurized processed cheese food product. I'm not sure it helped, but that's okay, they're tasty.
Even if they are crisp and insanely frosted.
"Will they be crisp, crunchy cookies?" my husband asked, a hopeful gleam in his eye.
"Nope. The recipe says they'll be soft and chewy."
"Aww"
"Will they be insanely frosted sugar cookies?" my oldest son asked, with an eerily similar hopeful gleam.
"Nope. I wasn't planning on frosting them at all."
"Aww"
But then, of course, the creativity reaction kicks in. They could be decorated. With cheery little sunbursts and sunwheels. It wouldn't take a lot of icing, and you could pipe it from a baggie. It would be so easy to do. There's cream cheese in the fridge, and you have grand marnier. And ginger, and cinnamon. And food coloring -- it could be a nice soft sunshiny orange-yellow.
While musing about this, I let the cookies stay in the oven a tad too long. They overbaked.
Well then. They need a little compensation now.
So I whipped up some icing, and started piping cheery little sunbursts.
As I was piping the icing, I realized the color I'd whipped up was nearly exactly cheez-from-a-can yellow. AUGH. It was especially obvious in the center of the designs, where the lines crossed. So I piped on more icing to make little sun disks in the center of the rays and swirls, to try to make them look more like suns and less like pasteurized processed cheese food product. I'm not sure it helped, but that's okay, they're tasty.
Even if they are crisp and insanely frosted.