Christmas cookies!

Baking Christmas cookies!

Only 4 days 'till Christmas!

We are on winter break and decided to finally start with our holiday baking.

We will make sugar cookies and a gingerbread house.

The dough for the little witch house is already done.

So we just have to make the cookie dough. We need flour, sugar, lots of butter and vanilla extract.

 After mixing the flour and sugar with a spoon, we quickly knead the cold butter with the mix together.

Since the dough is so sticky, we need flour, but not too much! (as Grandpa always said.)

Now the dough has to be cooled in the refrigerator.

Lilly is already cleaning the table. Everything is so sticky.

We have to wait at least 30 minutes.

The dough is cool and the real fun can begin.

Stars and hearts: my favorite shapes.

I lift the little star very carefully with a knife and put it on the cooky sheet.

I decided to make the cookies shiny.

With a brush, I paint the heart with egg
and bake the cookies for 5-6 minutes in a 375⁰ oven.

There are always broken cookies.

Lucky for us; we can try our cookies right away.

They are delicious.
I wish you guys could try them.

After a little break, we start with the gingerbread house.

It's not easy. Lilly is holding the walls and I put royal icing on the fourth wall.

It looks crooked. Oh, my.
It has to dry over night.

See you tomorrow.