Baking Christmas Cookies.....

Our icing color palette 

I'm not huge on baking, I'd much rather cook.... but every year since we were kids we always made sugar cookies cut them out in christmas shapes and iced them with colored icing.  This year was no different my sister, April, and I started about 11 a.m this morning and just finished up about 4:30 p.m with a grand total of 153 cookies.  We started of with 6 rolls of pillsbury sugar cookie dough and covered the rolls and everything else in the kitchen in flour haha, then we use the metal cookie cutters to make them into christmas shapes.  We use my Grandma Barnes homemade icing recipe and add food coloring to make a fun color palette, today we decided not to use the traditional christmas colors but some modern, bright colors.

For anyone looking a good icing recipe here is grandma's homemade icing recipe:

Ingredients-
2 sticks of butter
2 lb bag of powdered sugar
A dab of vanilla extract
Milk
Food Coloring

Melt the butter add a dab of vanilla and some of the powdered sugar, then add milk and more powdered sugar until you get the right consistency.  Then split the batch up into separate bowls and add food coloring to make the colors you want.

Here are a few pictures from our day...

Parker got to try the icing himself it's kid tasted and approved!  It was the first food he tasted and didn't make a horrible face about!