Making Cookies

On July 16, I thought it would be fun for Lily to make some cookies. But I thought it would be more fun for her to make them with a friend. So, we invited over her newest friend: Asher.

I debated which cookies to make and went back and forth about making chocolate chip cookies or snickerdoodle/sugar cookies. I knew the latter would involve a greater mess and more clean-up, but also the kids would have so much fun decorating. On the other hand if I made chocolate chip cookies they would just sit and watch me mix the ingredients. That would have defeated the whole purpose of making cookies in the first place. So mess snickerdoodles it was!

I let each of the kids pick out which sprinkles they wanted to put on top of their cookies and let them do the decorating skills. While Asher rolled his around the colored sprinkles like a boss, Lily delicately placed each sprinkle on her cookie one by one. When the cookies came out of the oven, they could have put a Minimalist or Abstract Expressionist artist (depending on which cookie you select) to shame!

When it came time to eat the cookie these two were as quiet as could be and definitely indulged in their hard work. I'm pretty sure Lily had four cookies and wanted more.

I can't wait until we can get together with Asher to make cookies again! Next time we'll pull out cookie cutters!