The kids and I did A LOT of baking this holiday season. We started the weekend after Thanksgiving and just kept going, putting them in the freezer as we went, up until about a week ago when arranged about 20 plates with 6 varieties of cookies and treats. It really was a lot of fun and we came up with a pretty good system. Benjamin always helped with the measuring out and mixing of the dough while Josie was in school. He has always liked to "help" me in the kitchen but he especially likes to use the "power tools" associated with mixing.
Our first cookie was my main cookie and one I have made for Christmas for nearly 20 years. It has peanut butter, chocolate chips, peanut M&M's and regular M&M's... of course I would make these every year!!
Keeping the M&M's out of his mouth is nearly impossible.
Next up was a basic sugar cookie... he had fun mixing those, too.
See, big Benjamin smiles.
Next was classic gingerbread men, women and houses. And more smiles.
We also made candy cane cookies, peppermint bark and this picture is us making the last of the six, festive lime shortbread. We have an awesome kitchenaid mixer that my friend, Mary Ann, gave us for our wedding. I use it all the time but I doubled most of the recipes so they wouldn't fit in the bowl. The lime shortbread finally fit and he was thrilled to use the "big mixer"
Josie got in on the cutting and decorating.
Benjamin tried to decorate too but his cookies looks like someone dumped an entire bottle of sprinkles on them... because that is exactly what he did.
Josie knows that I really like red hots... so she made this one for me and it was delicious.
Josie loves helping to roll out and form the candy cane cookies. This was at the end after we had run out of the white dough so we just made red candy canes to use up the rest of the dough.
She also really loves unwrapping the candy canes and breaking them up with a kitchen mallet.
And finally near the day of delivery we decorated the sugar cookies.
Benjamin quite literally dumped the entire cup of mini chocolate chips on one and then said "Mom, the one with all of the chocolate chips is mine, OK?" Haha.. he couldn't even look at me for a photo he was so focused on his cookie.
The kids and I did A LOT of baking this holiday season. We started the weekend after Thanksgiving and just kept going, putting them in the freezer as we went, up until about a week ago when arranged about 20 plates with 6 varieties of cookies and treats. It really was a lot of fun and we came up with a pretty good system. Benjamin always helped with the measuring out and mixing of the dough while Josie was in school. He has always liked to "help" me in the kitchen but he especially likes to use the "power tools" associated with mixing. 
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