Dough...again.

This was a long weekend, as G and I were both sick with this nippy cough. What better way to wrap it up...but by making cookies. A few weeks back I hurt myself with these cookie cutters from Williams-Sonoma. Yes, I did spend $19 on cookie cutters. So very wrong. I have a love for words. And a love of cookies, for that matter. There are three shapes, star, heart and scalloped rectangle, that allow for a custom phrase to be stamped into the surface of the dough. Justified them by committing to use them for G's school birthday party treats. Cheaper than ordering the mini cupcakes from Sweet Mandy B's. I will still miss them.

Tricks that I had heard about but never utilized until tonight:

• Roll cookie dough out onto parchment paper - really minimized flour use
• Use silicone rolling pin - once again, less flour, more "feel" for the dough

G used his mini silicone rolling pin and one of my rolling mats to make "tacos" after he had stamped out a reasonable amount of the cut out cookies. Visible to the left of the baked heart cookies. I have to go finish the uncolored dough batch. The paste food coloring is a bit much. It looks identical to the Play Doh from earlier in the week.