Madness indeed. I recently stumbled upon an amazing cookie blog called The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle and decided to get back into decorating cookies. Well in short, I discovered I'm a crazy person.
The actual baking of the cookies wasn't so bad. It took me a while but my 10 month old occupied himself for the most part while I baked and the whole process went fairly smooth (although I'm quite certain I made my cookies a bit too thin, will remedy that next time).
Recently he's been really great at entertaining himself in the dining room (aka play room, the dining room table has been replaced with a big comfy chair and a basket of his toys) while I do my thing in the kitchen. I decided to decorate my cookies today, and he decided to be needy and NOT play by himself. There was lots of climbing up my legs and general whining going on in my kitchen.
I definitely should not have attempted such a feat while he was awake, and/or while I was alone with him. I should have waited until either my husband was home from work, or the little monster was in bed for the night. Lesson learned. My apple cookies are less than fantastic, but I'll post pictures of them when they've dried. If they dry. Had a little mishap there too. I'm not sure what happened exactly, since I followed the recipe instructions for the icing to the letter, but my icing turned out gritty. It ended up working anyway, but I'm wondering how it'll end up.
Anywho, I'm not going to give up!
