since this is really mason's only chance to celebrate his birthday with friends this year, i wanted to produce whatever he wanted to bring as a snack to share. he chose gingerbread men. but not actual gingerbread men, he wanted sugar cookies cut to the shape of men with chocolate frosting so that they look like gingerbread men. sigh. generally, i would have tried to talk him out of this since i have rarely had a batch of sugar cookies come out well at all. but this past weekend i used a beautiful recipe that came out perfectly! so i agreed. only, they did not come out well. at all. like i couldn't even scrape the dough off the counter after i had given up.
so after consulting (and apologizing to) mason, i went out last night running around and trying to find somewhere with 22 cookies even remotely fitting his description. i was chatting with my mom while driving all over and she pointed out that i could just buy refrigerated sugar cookie dough instead. genius! plus, i had been to two stores already with no luck and was running out of options quickly.
only they didn't quite work out either. i thought it might be a temperature problem so i chilled one batch and froze another with no luck. they were sort of 'man' shaped so i pushed forward. not ideal. not nearly as cute as last year's hotdog baby jesus snack, but done. (the picture shows my beautiful one from this weekend, my failed version of the same recipe in the middle and my final product sent to school.) mason was happy and thought they were tasty. mission completion! (little einstein reference for the preschool set.) love.
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I love how determined you get with these snacks :)
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