An Afternoon of Cookies

These are a few pictures of the creative mess that is involved in decorating cookies at our house: fingers stained with food-coloring and knives covered in frosting, everyone trying to make a cookie that has never been done before.  As my mom says, decorating cookies isn't just spreading white frosting on them and dumping sprinkles on them, for her it's a form of art.  So we dye the frosting red and green and black and blue and yellow and brown and spend an afternoon decorating them.  It's messy and time-consuming but it's so much fun and it's worth it in the end.  Cookies decorated with care just taste so much better.