Soltice Velociraptor!

[lydamorehouse]

 If people are specifically looking to reconnect to their former Tumblr mutuals, there's a new community just for you (and me): the_great_tumblr_purge.  I haven't posted there yet, but I think I will. I'm not exactly a refugee from Tumblr, but I sure would love to be able to recreate the sense of community in fandom that I found there.

Meanwhile, I spent much of today baking. I got up early only to discover that we had no coffee in the house. MAJOR EMERGENCY. So, even though I had to take Mason (my son) into work at the Science Museum at 10 am, I made a mad dash out to my coffee shop and then picked up some extra baking supplies on the way home.

Shawn's friend Liz, someone she's known since kindergarten, came over and we made many batches of cookies. 

These are cookies that Shawn calls "sand tarts." They're a kind of chewy cookie that has an egg wash on the top that makes them somehow even more tasty.



I always sneak in a few non-traditional holiday shapes. I think this year I got both dinosaurs (we have a velociraptor and triceratops) and a dolphin. 

I just finished up a batch of spritz, as well:



You'd think with as many cookies as we make that we have plans to give them away. But, no. We hoard them and eat them throughout the dark winter months, which, in Minnesota, last until late March.  Shawn will take half of each of these batches and put them in Tupperware and put them i the freezer. That way in the middle of March when the snow drops on us unexpectedly, at least we'll have a few cookies to assuage our deep and unending suffering.

Mason and spent part of the day playing Super Smash Bros: Ultimate. As I am a button masher, I can not hope to defeat Mason. However, I found great joy in picking very pretty characters just to watch capes swirl and whatnot. I am easily amused.

Comments

[inkstone]

Those velociraptor cookies are amazing.

[lydamorehouse]

Thanks! I wish I could remember where I got the cookie cutters. It might have been a local place, Cooks of Crocus Hill. https://www.cooksofcrocushill.com. But, I'm not seeing them on the website. :-(

I went looking and found my exact cookie cutters here - Mystic & Medieval Cookie Cutters - as well as UNICORN ones. Must. Buy. Unicorn. Cookie Cutter!!!

[inkstone]

Omigosh! Velociraptors, unicorns, and MERMAIDS!!!

[morgan_dhu]

Now I want velociraptor cookies! Seriously, these all look very yummy.

[lydamorehouse]

Thanks. Everyone needs a velociraptor cookie!!

[evilpettingz00]

You've inspired me with your dinosaur-shaped holiday cookies. :D

[lydamorehouse]

Hooray!

[leia_solo]

The cookies look so tasty!

[lydamorehouse]

Thank you! They are!

[offcntr]

Spritz cookies are the best. I'll have to make some this week, now that my last firing is over.

[lydamorehouse]

Congrats on finishing All the Pottery! And, yes, to spritz.

[aeslis]

Those cookies look amazeballs, and I love that you have dinosaurs in there. The bottom picture cookies look familiar...I think we may have made those when I was a small child, but I haven't seen them for a long, long time. How strange!

[lydamorehouse]

Spritz, they get pushed out a tube, I say in hopes of jogging memories.

And, thanks!

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

One time I made gingerbread cookies for a friend's holiday gathering. They started out normal. Well, you know me, you can guess how long that lasted. So I started making cyclops and three-eyed aliens and so forth.

Then one of the cookies broke, losing a leg. I used part of a popsicle to make a peg-leg, painted on an icing eye-patch, and made a pirate.

The kids fought over that one.

Re: Yes ...

[lydamorehouse]

NICE.

We have a lot of fun cookie cutter shapes, including some of ninja bread folks, which I made for my martial arts group at one point.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

*wist* I don't think we have any ninja ones. A lot of other cookie-cutters though.

[bibliofile]

Yay, cookies! Last weekend was the annual bake-and-swap fest that I got invited into when I moved here. Then I and my housemates snack on a variety of cookies for many, many days. (The freezer here is too small for long-term storage, and there's no closed-in porch. Alas.) Eventually, we run out.

And then we make more cookies, but not as many kinds.