Saturday, February 18, 2006

Under the Rainbow

This week I had planned on making sugar cookies for Valentine's Day. I don't have kids in school, I didn't have a reason for doing it. I just wanted to. But I can't make a mess on top of a mess. Meaning my kitchen, I just couldn't get my kitchen clean enough this week to start on a sugar cookie project.

Yesterday I finally got all the dishes cleaned and put away, and the kitchen cleaned up so I can counter space to make cookies. But then I decided I didn't want to make the regular heart shaped cookies. Valentine's Day had passed. I instead turned to the ones my mom would make for us as kids all the time. I was so excited to start the project I didn't realize I didn't have enough sugar. "Sy" was napping and I couldn't run to the store, so I just had to wait for "S" to pick some up on the way home from work.

My mom would often make these rainbow cookies. As kids we loved them. They were the coolest cookie ever. It was so much better than the plan white round sugar cookies. I don't remember my mom often making frosting for the regular round cookies. Those to us were plain and boring, and besides didn't taste very good. These Rainbow cookies didn't need frosting. They tasted great all by themselves. The color made up for the lack of frosting, and we were okay with that. I bet my mom was okay with it too! :-)

As I started to make these last night I realized there was no difference between these and regular sugar cookies. They're just shaped differently and they have colors. But for us as kids, and even now for my own kids that doesn't matter. They're still the best cookies ever!

Now as a mom, I can appreciate these cookies on a different level. You don't have to roll out the dough and make a floury mess of your entire kitchen, and then use cookie cutters to cut them out. Plus there's no chance of the dough getting stuck inside the cookie cutter. I don't know if it took less time, but it definitely left my kitchen with less of a mess to clean up aftwards.
Posted by ABQ Mom :: 2/18/2006 11:08:00 AM :: 9 Comments:

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