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 The UU church I attend in Florida had a cookie decorating/carol singing gathering this past weekend.

I made some sugar cookies on Saturday morning. I don't remember if I blogged about making cookies last Christmas. Don had asked me to make some Christmas cookies so I made the cookies I associate with the season -- rugelach and Scottish shortbread. Don was startled since he meant sugar cookies shaped liked Christmas decorations and decorated with icing and sprinkles.

I no longer have cookie cutters so I just made roundish cookies and took them to the gathering to decorate. There were also sweater cookies to purchase that could be decorated -- ugly sweater contests ate not part of my traditions though.



I'm on the upper left. 

There were about a dozen of us decorating cookies. Don was quite pleased with sugar and Day-Glo icing. Quite a few more people came for the carol singing but I left before that started. It's one of those situations where the congregation pays me to just mouth the words of hymns.

I will make my shortbread cookies for New Years.



Comments

  1. gigi-hawaiiDecember 20, 2023 at 7:33 AM

    How nice! I love cookies of all kinds. Yours look delicious!

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  2. MaebemeDecember 20, 2023 at 8:56 AM

    I'm with you, Christmas means shortbread cookies here too. Rugelach, I've never made but perhaps one of these years I'll try. I've made sugar cookies in years past, but they're so labour intensive to decorate. And I'm lazy.
    Merry Christmas to you, Don, and little Levi.

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  3. Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)December 20, 2023 at 2:10 PM

    Well that looks like fun. Funny, how when someone says Xmas cookies to me those are not the first 2 types I think of, but I love 'em.

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  4. Miss MerryDecember 20, 2023 at 10:20 PM

    Fun activity! I like cookies that arrive on a tray as gifts, LOL. My days of baking varieties of cookies and making platters for teachers and others are long gone. I am one is who people appreciate that I mouth the words, too.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 21, 2023 at 11:15 AM

    Wonderful to share that time with others over the holidays.

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  6. BarbaraDecember 21, 2023 at 11:58 PM

    Shortbread sounds wonderful. I started out making chocolate peanut clusters to share but this year the smell of the chocolate was too strong. Not sure why but maybe it will keep me away from chocolate bars this year.

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  7. KayDecember 23, 2023 at 12:25 AM

    Very nice! I haven't baked cookies in years, but we get a lot of them at Christmas from friends. Instead, I've been making a LOT of fruitcakes. It's a Hawaiian version of it that a surprising amount of friends and relatives love.

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  8. Linda ReederDecember 25, 2023 at 1:48 AM

    As you know, I bake lots of different cookies. We just ate a bunch of them as our Christmas dinner dessert.. The kids decorate the sugar cookies and gingerbread.

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