Christmas Cookies

The kids and I went to Great Grandma Eileen's house to help bake Christmas cookies. I came by earlier in the week on Wednesday and had made a batch of Jim Dandy's, Chocolate Toffee bars, and some Triple chocolate chip cookies. We wanted to save the cookies that need decorating for the kids. Unfortunately Ellie is the only one that wanted to help. Hayden was too busy watching the Dish channels in the spare bedroom. I guess there was a marathon of some sort. I must be a horrible mother to not even have cable at the house! Hahaha!

First on the agenda was another batch of Jim Dandies. Boy are they good. They have maraschino cherries inside. Part of the cherry juice is put in the batter. Hmmmm. The batter smells out of this world. After putting the frosting on top, Ellie top them off with sprinkles.

Next it was off to make Spritz cookies. Grandma bought herself a new Spritzer and it worked wonderfully. I didn't know how easy it was to make these type of cookies.

Ellie put the chips in the center of the cookies


The master sprinkler at work


Is that perfection or what? ;-)


Now time to sprinkle the Christmas trees


She did a great job


She was very proud of this one. ;-)

We ended up making 8 dozen of the Spritz cookies! Ellie enjoyed helping out and we will probably do this yearly until Grandma can't do it anymore. I love the holidays.