I made sugar cookies for Kansas Day. File this one under "totally normal usages of time." I'm slightly obsessed with making sugar cookies. I decided to teach myself how to make royal icing and am slowly getting better. Tara told me recently that according to Outliers it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something, so I've got a little ways to go.
I added a bunch of sugar cookie blogs to my google reader, and the sunflower inspiration came from Sweet Sugar Belle. If you look at hers, you will be a little less impressed with mine. Also, you might lose like twelve hours of your life looking at her cookies. I warned you.
Still practicing and problem solving with the cookies around here (maybe a little obsessively). I have a cookie recipe I really like, but I'm still perfecting the timing of the whole process. And the consistency of frosting. Thankfully Valentine's Day is coming up, and that's a good excuse to try again!
And happy birthday Kansas!
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ReplyDeleteWhen I told Jacob it was Kansas day, he told me I needed a KS cookie cutter! Love yours! And love your celebration of KS Day.
ReplyDeletecute cookies. mom brought me back two from JW Co and then decided she needed to share the sunflower with me.......mainly because i was getting a sugar high from eating them both in a row! good work. p.s. ask Karen Norton who the woman was who made the incredible iced sugar cookies for the Cotton Bowl tailgate. They were phenom.
ReplyDeleteI love the KS cookie cutter. Some body said that it could be just a rectangle with the corner carved off but I think this is way better.
ReplyDeleteYou are so funny. Celebrating KS day, such a hoot, but I LOVE the KS cookies and I think you did a stellar job with your sunflowers, way impressed! I checked out that other blog...WHOA-that is some hard-core cookie time, amazing stuff! You are well on your way! :)
ReplyDeleteTrue story: a girl at church told me her aunt is pregnant and going to name the baby girl "Christmas Kansas." Later another child told me it was Kansas' birthday, so I had to ask, "The person or the state?" Love this town :)
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