Even though I'm adopted, I tell people that I inherited my baking skills from my paternal grandma and that it just runs in my blood. My grandma Vicki, was very well known for her knack for baking all kinds of pies, which she passed on to my dad, who passed it on to me. In addition to my dad, I also grew up baking with my sister-in-law, Sue. Each year for many, many years, we would get together around Christmas and make cookies to give out to friends and neighbors. Although we no longer bake cookies together, I still enjoy baking cookies in the few weeks prior to Christmas to give to our friends, and family members.
This year, I made 3 kinds of cookies-Frosted sugar cookies, Snickerdoodles, and White chocolate cherry shortbread cookies. I was particularly excited to do sugar cookies this year because I discovered through Pinterest of course-a new website called, "Sweetopia", that showed a more polished way of frosting sugar cookies and how to use the feathering technique. Instead of spreading on the frosting with a knife, you outline the cookie shape using royal frosting in a piping bag. I used a #3 Wilton tip. Then, you flood the inside of the outline with frosting and shake the cookie to even out the frosting and make it smooth. To feather, line different color frostings next to each other and then use a toothpick to drag through it and intertwine the colors together. When I was done with all of them, I was so happy with how they turned out! I will definitely be doing sugar cookies this way from now on.
After making all of my cookies, I put them in a small plastic bag, and used scrap book paper and ribbon to seal the bag and make them look really pretty.
P.S. For any of you who actually read my blog (do you exist yet??) and are wondering what ever became of my craft table-I was able to work on it more tonight, but haven't finished it quite yet. I promise to post an update once it's done :)
Until next time,
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