It didn't really stick for very long, but the point was it looked nice and made it feel very holiday-like :)
So in Germany we have two friends- Amanda and Stefan. Amanda is a fellow teaching assistant who happens to be a vegan and Stefan is a German who we met through alternative means. For the past two months Amanda, Arran, and I have been doing weekly dinners. Well, weekly food marathons might be a better description. Basically we pick a theme and then made ridiculous amounts of food in the form of appetizers, main dish, and dessert to go along with it. Then we eat too much over several hours. We've done Thai, Caribbean, Arabic, breakfast for dinner, and Indian- just to name a few.
Amanda and Stefan recently met at our Thanksgiving feast (pictures will no doubt be posted eventually) and he has recently been in attendance at our dinners. This past Saturday our theme was pizza party! We had pop, made pizza, and Amanda made a super awesome salad. And then for dessert- we decorated and baked Christmas cookies!
Proof that we have friends and that we made cookies:
Arran's mom sent us a vegan gingerbread mix (complete with hazelnut flavored agave syrup- yum!!!) and I found a recipe for vegan sugar cookies, which worked out quite well. I mixed all the dough before dinner and then it was chilled and ready to be rolled out!
Then we cut them out with cookie cutters and decorated them with sprinkles, both conveniently provided by Marilee (thank you :) ), and some chocolate that Amanda brought. Arran obviously got in on the decorating as well!
So we had a nice few hours, sitting around, drinking tea and cider, decorating cookies, and then eating the cookies that we just baked. Here is one almost empty plate:
And here is a mixed plate, that also, was also empty shortly there after:
All in all, we had a great night with friends and are getting more and more into the Christmas cheer!
YUM!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe cookies look so good and tasty...Run Little Gingerbread Man, run!