Pinterest and peer pressure.  Those two guys get me every.single.time.

How hard can it be?

sees cute cookie idea on Pinterest…spends a gob of dough on supplies (see what I just did there?) prepares counter for awesome baking adventure…blah blah blah.  

Yep.  So it was me with the bright idea of baking Christmas cookies.

Preparing the dough.

Chilling the dough.

Rolling out the dough.

Cutting out the shapes.

Okay so the dough was actually Pillsbury and comes in a handy dandy rolled up tube.

Whatever.

Anyway, let’s just say we tried, but it took us a good 25 minutes to figure out the best way to do this Baking Cookies Thing.  I won’t tell you how it all went down just in case you are reading this 20 years down the road and are some kind of Food Network Star.  But basically, most of the cookies turned out gross-ish, but the decorations were cute.  Although?  I didn’t photograph that part and slap it up on Pinterest for inspiration.  Let’s just say that.

You three had fun though!  Plus, you helped me clean up as we went along which is always appreciated and you (usually) never have to be asked.