Christmas Memories - Dessert

Another one of my Christmas memories are all of the dessert goodies. We had a tradition of making sugar cookies together and then frosting them. My mom had the best sugar cookie recipe and we would make dozens and dozens of cookies. We would clear off the dining room table and throw flour on it, roll out the dough and cut out cookies. We had cut outs of reindeer, santa, stars, holly, ornaments...you name it. Shaun, Chris and I would make the cut outs and mom would throw them in the oven.
After the cookies had cooled, we would take store bought frosting and throw in some food coloring. We would lay out wax paper on the dining room table and also set out the containers of frosting and all of the sugar decorations to add to the cookies. Then we would all sit down again and frost the heck out of those dozens and dozens of cookies.

I usually had a stomach ache the day we made these cookies, because I could not stay away from the cookie dough, the baked cookies, and the frosting!

While the sugar cookies were my favorite, we also had peanut butter cups and rosettes. They were always a treat to have around!