One of the greatest things about Christmas? Cookies. You don't even have to believe in Jesus to eat them. You just have to believe in delicious sweets. That's a tenet that most people can accept quite easily. Luckily, Christmas north of the equator happens in the dead of winter, which means that everyone's swimming in puddles of warm clothing so no one can see any accumulating fat. You have quite a few months to lose your cookie weight before it's bikini (or speedo?) season again. Besides, you can expect to experience about 78 Christmases, so you might as well eat up while you have the chance. (Life expectancy in US is 78.1 years)
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| Christmastime means you can eat as many cookies as you want. |
There's about fifteen different kinds of cookies that I want to eat. It probably doesn't help that I've read Food Network's "50 Edible Gifts" and a list of like 100 holiday desserts. But limited time (boo end of the semester) meant I have only had time to make a couple: peanut butter blossoms and sugar cookies. I don't even think that peanut butter blossoms have anything to do with Christmas, but I don't care. They are delicious. Right before popping them in the oven, you roll each cookie in sugar, which makes it glisten. This kind of is what snow looks like when it's sunny, right? So there's the connection to winter. Simple enough.
I won't go into all the gory details of the recipes; I'll just list them
here and
here. However, I would like to point out that making sugar cookies without a rolling pin is very difficult/annoying. I made them at Danielle's house, and the closest thing to a rolling pin she had was a Pam can. This did not work well, so I finally just spread out the dough with my fingers. Worked well enough for me, but this explains the uneven thicknesses and the mild ugliness of the cookies .
