This week I got to tap into my inner artist and create some fun cookies for our friend's birthday party. It was a Karate theme complete with Karate activities at a Karate School, board splitting by the kids and the cake being cut by a samurai sword. It was a lot of fun and only one kid related causality of a kid losing his tooth. My friend wanted to do giveaway cookie cut-outs of Karate Men but didn't want to pay a huge amount so I offered to help her out. I used my standard (and delicious) Sugar Cookie Recipe. These cookies really are a labor of love, because there is a lot of time involved. Making the dough is the easy part, but then you have to let them sit in the fridge for at least 4 hours (I just choose to have them sit overnight), then I spent an afternoon rolling, cutting and baking them. The next evening (as I watched the Primary Debates), I frosted and decorated them. But the time was worth the effort as they came out really cute and I even made matching boards to go with them. One lesson learned was not to use the decorating gel that you can buy in the store. It worked, but when I went to put them into the plastic bags I had they were still sticky after two days in the freezer. But it ended up well, as I purchased some black Chinese take out boxes from the Party store that went perfectly with them. I also got to use my Silicone Baking Mat for the first time and it worked great!
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