Christmas Cookies

During our first Christmas, we started a tradition of making Christmas Cookies. Apparently this is a tradition that goes on all over the place, but it was a new tradition for me as I did not even know the exact meaning of "Christmas Cookie," other than that it referred to a cookie maybe cut in the shape of a tree or candy cane.

This Christmas, we added tools to our arsenal from last year of just a butter knife for each color of frosting. Since then, Deanna's intereste in baking, and subsequently cake decoration, has increased, so we decided to experiment with a pastry bag. We only tried it on one color, so it turned out that Red was the only color used with any great detail. It obviously worked, so next year we will hopefully have another color or two to add to our tool box.

My favorite cookie? The Oregon State "O" which was carefully shaped by hand!