Baking!

[oyceter]

I so missed my giant food processor those two years in grad school!

My sister and I have not been doing very holiday-y things, largely because I have just been stressing about my Yuletide story (I WILL NEVER TRY PLOT AGAIN), most of our friends are in other places, and we mostly just feel like bumming around and watching kdramas. I keep saying I will put up the Christmas tree that has been mouldering in storage for the past two years, but so far we have both proved too lazy to do so. Maybe we will put it up on Christmas and then take it down the day after! (As you can tell, we see Christmas as an opt-in holiday. Sadly, I realized this was not true for most other people while stopping by the mall yesterday. BAD IDEA.)

Also, I am making gingerbread for the first time, so we went and bought cookie cutters. I have a gingerbread guy and a gingerbread girl and a Christmas tree, and I couldn't find a star of David, but instead, they have been joined by... a unicorn!

SISTER: The unicorn looks weird.
ME: Awesome and sparkly!
Sister gives me a skeptical look.
ME: Unicorns! Appropriate for many seasons! (then) Ooooo, should we get a stegosaurus too?

I was tempted to buy pink sparkles for it, but I don't actually like sparkles on my cookies (or frosting, or icing, or anything that has that much sugar. Light sprinklings of powdered sugar are acceptable.)

Also also, it would be nice if all my baking urges didn't happen at 10 pm. At least my kitchen is well stocked enough that I don't have to make midnight Safeway runs or very strange substitutions, though the well-stocked-ness mainly consists of me going, "Hrm. I have had this molasses since 2007. Hopefully it is still okay!"

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately the grocery stores also see Christmas as obligatory, so watch out! The ones around here have become unpredictable in their holiday openness. Luckily, molasses is an Okay Forever food.

[heresluck]

Yay, baking! Though my plans for the day are less about cookies and more about cranberry bread and rosemary-olive bread. Mmmm.

[oyceter]

I will take note! Hopefully many people don't go watch movies the night of Christmas Eve...

Also, good re: molasses! I made a guess since I do know honey never goes bad, and hopefully it holds true for brown sugar too, since I, uh, actually do not know how old mine is!!

[oyceter]

Yum!!

[readsalot]

Brown sugar is white sugar with molasses mixed in, so it should also last a very long time.

[jadelennox]

Unicorns! Appropriate for many seasons! (then) Ooooo, should we get a stegosaurus too?

♥

[(Anonymous)]

was the stegosaurus's plates tasty??? ginger bread dinosaurs. great idea. Brontosaurus next?

[oyceter]

Excellent! Well, so far, no one has died from the gingerbread, so I assume both molasses and brown sugar couldn't have been too bad.

[oyceter]

Alas, we didn't end up getting the stegosaurus, but the unicorns turned out awesome!