Cookie Crash

Hey guys!

The holiday's building up to the next few days!

How's everything?

Today, December the 23rd, was the last day of school for the year. 

Oh how time passes by when you're drowning in school work.

 Enough of that though.

I'm writing this blog post because I made some cookies!

When I say some, I mean a total of 6 batches of cookies. Yeah.

On the 18th, I came home from school and made some chocolate chip and gingerbread cookie dough. I actually made a video while I was doing that, which I had uploaded today, called "Cookie Chats." 

I was actually making these cookie dough's, because I had two of my best friends coming over to my house to bake and decorate them. That way, we could all spread some festive spirit in our schools.

All I can say, there can be one too many people in a kitchen. Haha.

It was hectic!

The three of us had to work on the gingerbread dough for a long time, because it kept crumbling apart. That's mainly because I wasn't supposed to freeze the dough...

It didn't turn out bad though!

We just had to work it with a lot of kneading, flour, and water :P

It was like 7:30 when everything was done. It was tiringggg.

I ended up letting my friends take all the cookies home, because there wasn't a lot to share between all 3 of us. Despite there being at least 60 cookies...

So, I made a 2nd batch of all three cookies on Monday (the 21st) and baked them the next day. The pictures are actually from my 2nd batch, because the pictures from baking with my friends were (no offense to them) a mess.

XD

Everything was covered in flour and oily fingerprints.

But in this case, the 2nd batch, they turned out much better. I was kind of disappointed because the chocolate chip cookies didn't spread out as much as the first batch. Maybe it had to do something with the baking soda. I also added some additional white chocolate chips, because why not? Besides that, the sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies turned out really well.

My friends and I decorated the 1st batch with icing, but that was a mess as well. So I decided that the 2nd batch would be icing-free, that way, it's not a hassle or overpoweringly sweet. (Mostly because if I were to decorate them, it'll take so long. And I didn't have time to do that with all the projects and tests at school).

If you do want to decorate them, I sketched out some ideas of icing the gingerbread cookies.

If you want the recipes that I used, click on their names down below. My video "Cookie Chats," also has the cookie recipes in the description box.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

*Side note* It might also help if you squished them down a bit before baking, so you get a bigger and thinner cookie.

Gingerbread Cookies

*Side note* Unlike the video, you can use any cookie cutter shapes you want. I used a Christmas tree, gingerbread man, candy cane, reindeer, and snowflake. I got most of them at from Michaels (the craft store), they're really affordable (about $2 each). But for the gingerbread men and tree, I got mine at Sur La Table (aka, where I restrain my geeky self from cookware). They're my go-to stores to wander around in and look at things, but I never buy anything. You know what I mean?

Sugar Cookies

*Side note* If you were making these for people who don't really like chocolate and peppermint, it's totally optional and you can leave it out like I did. It might help if you squished them down a bit before baking, so you get a bigger and thinner cookie.

That's it from my cookie madness, I'll talk to you soon.

~ Vicky