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Tossing cookies
The past week and a half has been very quiet here at Chez Boca. Christmas
afternoon was spent in an orgy of paper ripping, followed by oohs, aahs and
small squeals of delight (and no, I won't give any indication of who did the
most squealing). The evening was spent decorating a metric buttload of
Christmas themed sugar cookies.
[Christmasy sugary goodness] [1]
[2]
When we made the cookies (a few days before), it was my idea to cut the
center out of some of the larger ones just for a variation on a theme. On
this tray, I know I painted the tree with the white snow flakes on it, and
the larger man shaped one. The rest—don't recall. But I do recall that the
royal icing (made from scratch) was very gooey. We used basting brushes for
the green and red, and having run out of said brushes, used popsicle sticks
for red (and yes, the orange there is actually red—blast that white color
balance) and yellow.
[Break out your insulin shots!] [3]
[4]
The four gentlemen on this tray were all my work—three soldiers of various
ranks, and one civilian running around barefoot. As we progressed, my work
got more and more elaborate as I found it rather fun. Let's see … the
christmas tree, the small blue star (or “Captain's Wheel” as Bunny called
them) and the candy cane was also mine.
[I really start playing around with the cookies] [5]
[6]
The more cookies we did, the more elaborate my designs became. The green guy
with the orange center was my idea; basically, a large cookie with the center
cut out, painted green, with an identical smaller cookie (which actually was
the center cut out) painted red (yes, it's red, gosh darn it!) placed over
the cut out hole.
And the angel in the lower right was another of my designs. If you look
closely at the angel [7], you'll notice two small eyes, which required the
use of tweezers.
Yes, I decorated cookies with the help of tweezers.
There's nothing wrong with that, right?
[Leave it to Bunny to make a “Not-Safe-For-Work” sugar cookie] [8]
[9]
Yes, the man shaped sugar cookie in the lower left is sans pants (censored
for your protection), and for you perverts out there, here's the NSFW (Not
Safe For Work) uncensored sugary goodness (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!) [10].
The large girl in the top center is my work. I thought it would be cute to
make a little girl holding a doll dressed just like her [11]. Three cookies
in the construction of that one, and later Bunny remarked that she wants to
preserve it and possibly use it as a Christmas tree ornament.
Reminds me of a programming class I took in college (Computer Science and
Engineering at Florida Atlantic University) [12]—the professor actually
instructed me to “stop with the overkill!”
I didn't listen then, and now, no one was telling me to stop with the
overkill.
[The green snowman is sad because he knows … he knows he'll get eaten (cookie
by Bunny)] [13]
[14]
By this time, both of us where getting tired of slapping a rapidly drying
icing onto cookies and it shows in this last batch of cookies—nothing
terribly complicated. Or rather, nothing complicated by me—I was pretty much
tapped out at this point.
But it was fun, and the cookies, they are good … nom nom nom
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[12]
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