Easter Cookies

 

This past weekend Ryan was in San Fran for yet another work trip so I did what I do best, and called in reinforcements to come hang out with the girls and I for the weekend.  Let me tell ya, an impromptu girls weekend was just what we needed.  The girls had finally returned to school earlier in the week (after a LONG quarantine for post Disney COVID) and I couldn't wait to catch up with Erin, share a few cocktails (turns out it was one too many cocktails!) and do what we do best - make sugar cookies!

Turns out, somehow over our nearly 2 year bender with sugar cookies, we never managed to buy St. Patrick's Day cutters so we decided to just skip right over that holiday and do Easter instead.  After so many batches, we do have a pretty good routine down and the kids are pros at their parts of the process.  But, each and every time we make these, we find something else new to try or tweak.  This batch's project was operation frosting consistency.  We made two very specific consistencies and made sure to really pay attention to how the frosting reacted so that we can replicate it going forward.  We made a much thicker frosting to use for piping on top (you can see it below on the carrots) and a thinner one that spreads more easily for all over frosting sections (like the peep bunnies above).

The cookies turned out as cute as ever.  The kids love being able to take them to school to share with their teachers and I sure love having one in the morning with coffee.  The thinker cookies and larger cutters mean that one batch of dough goes just far enough for us to share the cookies and leaves just enough left over that they are gone within a few days.  

Now it's got us thinking about our next cookie weekend - and what we'll make.  I'm guessing our next batch will be for the lake Memorial Day weekend...Erin and I have a cute idea already in the works for those.  Last year we did red/white/blue patriotic theme...but I'm going to keep our plan for this year a secret for now!