(This is post 8 in the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories hosted by Geneabloggers.com)
Prompt: December 8 - Christmas Cookies
Did your family or ancestors make Christmas cookies? How did you help? Did you have a favorite cookie?
Making cookies. Note orange kitchen in the background.
Also, check out my sprinkles collection
and little silver balls in the lower left.
My mom made sugar cookies every Christmas in our very 1970's orange kitchen. She made the dough, but she let us use the cookie cutters. I remember there was a profile Santa with a bag, a star, a bell, a snowman and a gingerbread-shaped cutter.
When the cookies cooled we got to frost them. My mom would make a big batch of white frosting, then divide it into bowls where she would use food coloring to provide many shades. We also had sprinkles, red & green crystals and those metallic edible silver balls.
All the sugar cookies were my favorites. Though I liked to decorate with those silver balls, I never ate the cookies that had them. What the heck were those things anyway?
(This post was originally published December 8, 2009)
They're dragees. My whole blog dedicated to Christmas cookies is about those daggone dragees. It's hilarious TO ME that you mention them in your post.
ReplyDeleteI learned my lesson after I took a bite out of a cookie with those on it.
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