Last Saturday I had the absolute pleasure of joining my uncle’s holiday baking group. Every year around the holidays they get together and bake a mass amount of cookies. I was fully initiated with my own cookie recipe book that everyone in the group owns and a apron made just for me. (Grinch on one side, zombies on the other.) It was a fantastic time and I learned so many tips when it comes to baking, it was amazing.
The way it works is each person brings two from-scratch cookie dough batches and then we bake and decorate them all day. At the end of the day, we each come home with a large variety of cookies. (My husband sampled one of each flavor within 5 minutes. He had been waiting weeks for this to happen. He’s already looking forward to Cookie Day 2018.)
I went the safe route for my first year and picked two fairly easy recipes. One was your classic gingerbread man. I had never made them, let alone decorated them before. Because I am me, there were a LOT of inappropriate ones.
Gingerbread Cookie Recipe Here
I love mint. So my second batch choice was a peppermint sugar cookie with peppermint buttercream frost and crushed peppermint bark on top.
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Your cookies look amazing, if I get time before Christmas, I’m going to have to try the recipes. Red and green are festive colours, so I think your gingerbread men are still appropriately decorated!
Haha thanks! I definitely recommend both recipes. Making buttercream frosting was a little intimidating but now that I know how to do it it’s not so bad. (And I’ll be using buttercream much more!)
You can’t go wrong with buttercream icing!
Your cookies look soooo good! I need those peppermint cookies in my life. They sound amazing! ❤ Glad you had such a great time and learned a bunch of snazzy new baking tips! 🙂
They were pretty awesome! My shining moment was mastering buttercream frosting but also, I learned about a bunch of fancy baking tools I need in my life as well. 😛
Nice! I’ve never had great luck with making an actual frosting, so kudos to you on that buttercream. 🙂
It’s actually really easy with just one more instrument on my stand mixer. Once I buy that, buttercream frosting on everything!
Nice! 😀
Omg I want those peppermint cookies in my mouth hole. I need to make my chocolate chip cookies and post the recipe because those are dangerous AF.
Please do! I haven’t found a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I am satisfied with yet. I’m so picky about those. :3
Oh thank you for reminding me! You know what…I’ll do it tonight after I answer my comments 😀