Well around here we officially over The Christmas Holiday Break. I was back to work last night and the kids will be back to school tomorrow.
As much as I enjoy Christmas, I am ready to get back to a somewhat normal routine. When we're all home in this house it seems to be a constant of eating and a constant sink full of dishes.
The very rainy holiday didn't offer up much else.
I've been pretty absent from the blogging community the past few months but we carried on with most of our usual holiday shenanigans but I just do them all with a camera in my hand.
The one thing I didn't do as much of this year was making cookies. We made a batch sometimes before Christmas but with there being no lack of other desserts I really couldn't bring myself to bother with them.
This morning I was going through a few reminders to get the kids minds back in the perspective places for going back to school when Jack asked, "Don't we need to make those cookies??"
Well of course...Jack we do need to make those cookies.
So we did.
These were a sorta' Gingerbread cheater cookies.
I had seen a recipe for making cookies from a cake mix, egg, and block of cream cheese.
I made a different variation of the recipe but honestly the quick and easiness of the recipe didn't give me the kind of cookie that I prefer. The cookies were more like cake; not bad to eat but more like eating a really small cake instead of a cookie.
but...
Out of a bit of laziness and lack of preparation, I doctored the recipe a little and came out with a pretty good gingerbread cookie. They were still a bit soft for cutting out but they eat up just fine.
Are you wondering what the moral of this story is?
Well quite simply...
if you are down to the last day of your holiday
make cookies.
Any cookies is good cookies!
