Anyway, I digress. Since not everyone shares my opinion on the peanut butter thing, I have to satisfy the cravings of my family for the normal holiday faire. My dear husband does not have a particularly sweet tooth (seems almost unnatural doesn't it?), so I decided to start with gingerbread cookies.
I shopped for recipes and stumbled across this one from Glorious Treats. I went to work making the dough and boy, about that dough. There's a ton of it....and it's thick. My poor KitchenAid was begging for mercy. It was all worth it in the end though. To say there were a lot of cookies would be an understatement.
The first thing I noticed was the aroma coming from the oven. It was heavenly. I decided to try one, and I was glad I did. I might just be tempted to come to the "normal" side of holiday treats! They were fantastic. You control whether or not the cookies are crispy or soft by the thickness of the dough.
A note about the frosting...the first time I made the frosting, I added too much water and the frosting was way too thin. It slid right off the cookies. The second time around, I added a bit of clear corn syrup (because the powdered sugar just isn't sweet enough), and that seemed to do the trick.
My husband was drawn to the kitchen by the aforementioned heavenly smell of these cookies baking. He found me decorating these. He is a very artistic person, so I think his interest was piqued. He asked me if he could help decorate them. Against my better judgment, I agreed. I gave him the piping bag and he went to work. Within 5 seconds, I see frosting spewing from his hand like lava from a volcano. He looked at me like I was going to beat him. That man and his Kung Fu grip, I tell ya'. We had a good laugh about it, and it's something that we will remember every time gingerbread cookies are made.
No comments:
Post a Comment