Tuesday, February 8, 2011

V-day Cookies

This is what we did tonight (and what I did all day - from making the dough, to buying candy for decorating, to rolling out and cutting out and baking dough, to running back to the store when we ran out of butter: an essential ingredient in buttercream frosting...). I wanted to do this because I remember decorating cookies for Valentine's Day when I was a little girl, and I loved it! Paige displayed the same laser-like focus as she did for decorating her gingerbread house. She decorated 13 cookies and wanted to keep going but I had to force her to stop because it was a half hour past her bedtime.

Originally I planned to give them to the women I visit teach (the cookies wrapped up on the real plates are for them). The plates look like this underneath all those cookies:
I cut the vinyl out on my Cricut with the "home accents" cartridge. The plate is $1.97 from Tai Pan.

But obviously we have too many cookies for just the 3 ladies I visit (none of whom have children to gobble them up - the cookies that is.). So I asked Ben if I could wrap some up for the families he home teaches. His reply was something like this, "No. What's the point? No one's going to eat any. They're just going to dump them in the trash."

???

Is this true? Did I just waste my entire day? Doesn't anybody out there like sugar cookies? I mean, you can pick off the red hots and the conversation hearts . . .

9 comments:

Tiff said...

Shut up, Ben. I would eat them all yesterday.

Liz Johnson said...

NO! I would eat them!!! I would probably hide them from my spouse and eat them all myself, too, because that's kind of how I roll.

So Many M's said...

Ben is wrong!!! Send them out, the families will love them.

Kendra said...

Honestly? If they were from you I'd eat them. Most anyone else, if try them. If they suck I'd throw them away. Like we did at Christmas time. Just depends on the quality.

Kelly Nordfelt said...

I know a neighbor that would eat them. Ben is just being silly...

Miki said...

Dear Ben,

Are the families you hometeach crazies?

Dear Bridget,

Can you add 1 more to your VT list?


Dear Ms. Honey,

Can you add my daughter to your granddaughter list? Those Valentine's are the cutest things I've ever seen!

Love,

Miki

(adorable...all of it!)

That Girl said...

Are you kidding?! We made sugar cookies last week, and they are GONE. We gave most of them away, and I can guarantee that they were eaten!!!

Bridget said...

Just so you all know (and so I feel a little better about myself for telling on my husband), Ben apologized to me for being a little grumpy last night. And I even caught him eating one of the "destined for the trash" cookies tonight. :)
Also, I managed to give the rest of the cookies away to very deserving homes.

Jean said...

Hahaha! I would totally eat them!! They are beautiful, and I've had your cookies before, so they're guaranteed to be delicious, too. Don't listen to your naysayer husband! (LOL!)