It was SO MUCH FUN!
We invited 24 people and we had 16 people here - which was about the perfect number. The 9 kids had a blast decorating the cookies. K and I had done the cookie baking last weekend - and we couldn't find the Christmas cutters, so we had dinosaurs, flowers, cars, teddy bears, and lots of stars and circles. I use a sour cream sugar cookie recipe, so they aren't so sweet - then we frost the cookies with a cream cheese frosting, again, not so sweet. Then, when I make the gingerbread cookies, I cut up some of my homemade crystalized ginger, so you get the bite of the spicy ginger. Yum! Then, we use about 20 types of sprinkles - everything from standard red and green sugar to cows, pigs, and school buses. (We consider it a yearly challenge to come up with the most original sprinkles.)
Then, the adults dip into the chocolate. I made four types of homemade marshmallows (easy peasy) vanilla bean, cinnamon, toasted coconut, and caramel covered. So, we dipped those and dried fruit, nuts, cookies, and whatever else we can dip in chocolate.
Birthday party for K and my nephew. The kids raked it in. Thank you to my sister-in-law for hosting that.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please feel free to comment. We all learn from each other and I would like to learn from you!
Comments will be posted as soon as possible. I've been getting hit with a lot of spam, so I need to watch what is going on the blog. Thanks for understanding.