Yes, Christmas is over. Yes, I have no kids to put to work frosting them. But I’ve been looking and looking for a decent sugar cookie recipe that will work with my mother’s old cutters, and this one does the trick!

She had a set of red plastic cookie molds that you press the dough into – Santa, tree, star, etc. They came out with the shapes embossed into the dough. Then, you get to work and spend about a week decorating. We always left that kind of cookie for Santa – and the Santa cookies had coconut beards, rosy red cheeks, raisin eyes, etc. They were gorgeous creations, but none of the sugar cookie recipes I’ve tried would work with the molds. This one does just fine.

So, come next year, I’ll be able to get started and make a pile of trees and stars and Santas – then all I need to do is find some kids to give them to. That shouldn’t be hard!

In the meantime – I have a crumb-covered keyboard!

Isn’t tradition wonderful? I have a few cookie cutters like that from my departed mother in law which will be passed on to my daughters. When I was a youngster, we put out peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies for Santa – no sugar cookies. I started that tradition with my kids, and I think they will carry it on.
My keyboard is crumb-covered too – I love cookies!

Merry Nerry!