Cookie failure

This past weekend has been fantastic. Last day of classes on Thursday, and reading days on Friday and Saturday. Did we study? Psht, no. On Saturday, I was feeling especially in the Christmas spirit, aka, the lets-make-Christmas-sugar-cookies spirit. This relatively simple task turned into a relatively long process. First we realized we didn't have enough eggs. Then we realized that we didn't have any cookie cutters. If you're making Christmas sugar cookies, they have to be in shapes. I believe that it is scientifically proven that it tastes better that way.

So we go to Smiths to get eggs and look for cookie cutters. Smiths happens to have a whole aisle full of Christmas delights. It was so incredibly exciting. Decorations, candy, plates, giant stuffed elephants, wrapping paper, candles, lots of fun stuff. Also, cookie cutters. Incredibly overpriced cookie cutters! We weren't so excited about spending $3 per cookie cutter, sooo we didn't get any. We did buy my favorite kind of candy (Cadbury thingers, the crispy chocolate thingers), as well as a little thing of chips, and this deal where you get a frying pan, bacon, eggs, orange juice and bread for $10.

Still on the search for cookie cutters, we went over to Walmart. Not a cookie cutter to be found in that store. Also not to be found: any employees to ask about cookie cutters. We did use our Walmart gift card from our wedding to buy some corelle plates (up to this point we've just owned plastic plates. They totally work, but for some things, actual plates just seem to work better) and Spiderman 2 (for $5!).

Still searching for cookie cutters, we stopped at a dollar store. Nul. Then went back to Smith's and bought two of the overpriced cookie cutters. Success! (sort of)

Back at home, we make the cookie dough, and it went fantastically. Then we placed it gently in the refrigerator it for a couple of hours to make it easier to roll out. We've done this at home all the time, but I never realized that taking it out of the bowl and putting saran wrap directly around the dough was such an essential part of the process. We thought saran wrap across the top of the bowl would be enough. Not so. Yes, dried out cookie dough. So sad. It had turned crumbly enough that cookie cutter shapes were entirely out of the question. We just had to squish the dough together and form kinda ugly balls on the sheet.

Oh, and then, we both got hit super hard by the napstick last night, and so we woke up this morning, realized we had left the cookies on the cookie sheet... and were now rather hard.

Sigh. Oh well.

That whole big process to make cute and happy shapes, and then it didn't even happen. It was a lot of fun though. Aaannd, we'll probably try again tomorrow.