Christmas Preparations: Baking

Ella loves to help in the kitchen with baking and cooking, and she also loves using cookie cutters with play-doh, so I knew she would enjoy making cut-out sugar cookies this Christmas.

We used a sugar cookie recipe from Nigella Lawson, which was easy. Aside from using the cookie cutters, Ella's favorite part was decorating the cookies with icing and sprinkles (and, of course, eating them)!

modeling her "ELLA" apron that Baba made for her

silly girl


using the rolling pin

mommy and daughter hands


the cut-outs


just out of the oven


concentrating on the decorating


one of the first cookies done


yum!


finished cookies

This afternoon we are going to take some cookies to one of our elderly neighbors (it was one of the messages in Ella's advent envelopes).