Oh, So Sad...

I like to make sugar cookies with my kids at Christmas time, and then again around Valentine's Day. Mainly so that I can eat lots and lots of sugar cookie dough. :) Yummmm. But look at how messed-up they turned out:

I think there were two issues that made them break so badly. Issue number one: I think I made them too thick. Issue number two: After we cooked the cookies and they had cooled a little bit, I put them into a tupperware container. I should have cooled them longer so that they were stiffer. So we ended up frosting a lot of small, broken-off pieces. There were maybe four whole cookies when all was said and done. The rest were in pieces.

Pictures of the process. Dylan:

Sadie Lou-Who is so funny. She kept forgetting that she needs to have frosting as a base so that the sprinkles stick. I had to keep saying, "Frosting First! FF!" And then she insisted on sprinkling a little bit from every single sprinkle jar onto each cookie. So she had yellow sprinkles, red sprinkles, green sprinkles, and multi-colored sprinkles on every cookie. And when she went to put the cookies on the waxed paper, most of the sprinkles would fall off, because she would keep forgetting the FF rule. Here she is, with one of her frosting-less cookies:

Sigh. Making sugar cookies is such a pain in the butt. I would totally throw that Christmas tradition out the window, but again, the pull of sugar cookie dough is too much for me to bear. :)