Cookies!

At some point I impulse bought a set of a hundred and one cookie cutters on the internet for very little money; as a result I had to make something other than my usual snickerdoodles.  (No, it was not a drunk purchase.)  I used the Smitten Kitchen brownie roll-out cookies and recruited Michael as packaging engineer to get the highest packing density of cookies given the constraints of a rolled-out sheet of cookie dough.  You could also write a program to optimize this!

The dinosaur is basically the grown-up dog.

The cookies were fun to make and made a fun contribution to our holiday party.  Unfortunately they were not nearly as tasty as they looked.  I suppose they would have gone well as part of an ice cream sandwich.  On their own they are not quite sweet enough.  They are simple and easy, but too sandy for my taste.  Choosing the shapes was the most fun part.

What needs red eyes?  EVERYTHING.

I brought premade icing to work to decorate these and discovered that safeway sells icing that says not to refrigerate, before or after opening.  I find this highly suspicious.

That dinosaur looks murderous.

 I also baked up the last of the green tea cookies.  They went over much better than the chocolate ones.

Bottom center: green tea cookie dinosaur.  Yoshi!

I'm thinking next time I'll do gingerbread instead.