cookies!!!

WOW these cookies tasted sooooo great!!! they are surgar cookies just dyed with food coloring! heres the recipe:

1 1/2 cups sugar
2/3 cup shortening or butter*
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/4 cups flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Early in the day or the day before:
In a large bowl cream the shortening and the sugar. Add the eggs, extract, and milk. In a medium bowl mix the dry ingredients with a wire whisk. Add the dry ingredients to the large bowl. Mix with mixer until well combined. With hands, shape dough into a ball. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease cookie sheets. Roll** half or 1/3 dough at a time, keep the rest refrigerated. For crisp cookies, roll dough, paper thin. For softer cookies, roll 1/8 " to 1/4" thick. With floured cookie cutter, cut into shapes. Re-roll trimmings and cut.

Place cookies 1/2 inch apart on cookie sheets. Decorate***Bake 8 minutes or until very light brown. With pancake turner, remove cookies to racks; cool. Makes about 6 dozen cookies.

Julia made this tree and ornament

these cute little turkeys we made like twenty of them!! don't they look like playdough!?! haha you can see a gingerbread man in the corner! tehe

Julia made this awesome Rudolph!!

while we were baking my friend and i worked on our  project together! we were soo satisfied and proud of our finished prpoduct! isnt it cute! it was also a blast to do!

I curled my hair and this is what it looked like before it went flat. :( i wish it had stayed!!!