i kinda lost my mojo for a few weeks after christmas. i still feel like i'm recovering from the entire month of december, but at least i've started sewing again. my sewing machine was unplugged for over a week!
i had to switch machines to hem a pair of pants for my little brother - i know, i said i wouldn't hem his pants anymore, but he suckered me in! he'd actually been acting like a real human being, and he gave me a sob story about how he was flying back the day before he started work, and wouldn't have time, blah, blah, blah. so i hemmed them, and since my brother machine does an awesome blind hem stitch, i switched out machines. after i'd put the brother away, my janome just sat there, not even plugged in, until i finally got motivated this past week. i was determined to finish my Habitat quilt before the FVMQG meeting, so that got me going a bit.
one thing i have been doing, since i haven't been sewing, has been baking. yay, baking!
while i was in manitoba i wanted to make sugar cookies, but i couldn't get my hands on the ingredients for my usual amazing recipe (whether you're vegan or not, they're AWESOME!). i searched and found a few recipes, and decided to go with this one, which i found on this blog, though i used margarine, not butter, and didn't have any cream of tartar. they still turned out great! i followed the suggestion to put the cut out cookies in the freezer for 15 minutes before popping them in the oven, and i think it made a big difference in the spreading.
![sprinkles](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6707026545_ee3ee26404.jpg)
they disappeared within 3 days, i think! isn't my platter neat? i think i paid $0.25 for it. totally a good score.
after christmas i decided to make another batch, again using margarine, but this time i didn't have vanilla, but did have cream of tartar! (i usually steal my sister's vanilla, but i made the dough late at night.) since i was at home, i had a lot more selection of cookie cutters, and i had fun using a bunch of them.
i made some simpler shapes, as well as some gnomes (which totally don't look like gnomes unless you do a fancy job of icing them!). i found this key cutter in my stash that i'd forgotten about, so i made a bunch of keys, and coordinating hearts. (aw. key to my heart. isn't that sappy?) i was so excited when i found the silver jimmies... but they're chocolate! i didn't realize that when i used them, and chocolate's kind of eh on sugar cookies. but it was okay, they were still yummy.
![key to my heart](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6707022691_40e230f7b6.jpg)
and then i made a tray full of strawberries, and had fun icing them. pretty, huh?
![strawberries](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6707023697_5ca0571362.jpg)
i also made a bunch of teensy-weensy cupcake shaped cookies, which i used to decorate cake cupcakes for a friend's birthday.
![birthday cupcake](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6707021991_e90de2a58c.jpg)
i didn't intend to match the icing with the tupperware, but they look pretty good together, don't they?
![birthday cupcakes](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6707021249_1d7bc85c30.jpg)
i'm craving sugar cookies now! why don't they sell sugar cookies at the grocery store like they do chocolate chip and oreos? there's obviously a gap in cookie manufacturing here.
2 comments:
Ok - you got me drooling!
Very cute cookies! I loved the strawberry cookie I had at the meeting the other night, thanks!
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