Our Halloween Tradition

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When Matthew and Jenny were pretty young, my mom came to visit at Halloween and brought some Halloween-shaped cookie cutters so she could make sugar cookies with the grandkids. She left us with the cookie cutters and every year since then we make the sugar cookies and decorate them with the best Halloween colors able to be achieved with normal food coloring. The kids had no school yesterday so I thought it was the perfect time to do "the cookies."



Cutting out the cookies


Strategically placing them on the cookie sheet



Keeping the shape of the cookie intact



Frosting them her own way



Being his precise self. :)



Lucy loves frosted sugar cookies!


And it looks like Jenny does, too. Thanks for the fun day, kids!

Comments

Casey and Rachel said…
Looks like you guys had lots of fun! I wanted to make sugar cookies too, but we don't have anyone to help us eat them. Looks like Lucy has a sweet tooth like her grandpa! First chocolate cake, now sugar cookies. :)
October 27, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Caitlin said…
Hi! We gobbled up the cookies again even before we got home. I love your recipe! And the kids did such a great job... how fun!
October 27, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Randi said…
we have those exact cookie cutters! hehe* you're such a good mom, looks like they had a lot of fun.
October 27, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Jamie said…
Yummy! Looks like we all took some Pieper halloween traditions with us:) WE made Spudnuts! Sure wish we could've collaborated!! Miss you!
November 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM
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