After our last cookie adventure with Julie, our friend Melanie decided that she wanted to use our kitchen to bake sugar cookies, because her kitchen is way too small, and we have the most complete and well-stocked apartment kitchen around here. The plan was to bake them on Saturday afternoon, the day after we made cookies with Julie. However, it was postponed to Monday night.
The night started out like any other general cookie making night. Melanie and Mark came over with all the supplies they bought at the local supermarket. Melanie wasted no time getting everything together. She mixed all the ingredients for the dough and spread it out over our kitchen counter. With no intervention or assistance from anyone else, Melanie toiled away in front of our kitchen counter where she rolled the dough and cut them out in various shapes such as trees, bears, and bells. Of course, there was a mess in our kitchen just like we always happen to make.
After the cookies had been baked, everyone proceeded to frost the cookies. Melanie mixed some food coloring with the frosting and produced four colors - gray (which was actually supposed to be blue), green, pink, and orange. Everyone took a knife, picked a frosting color, and smothered the sugar cookie fun shapes with more sugary goodness. Immediately following the frosting, we adorned as many cookies as we could with rainbow sprinkles. Done. Next came the eating of the cookies.
After the cookies were done, neither Mark nor Melanie wanted to take any of the cookies. It would seem that Melanie did not intend to take the cookies home, but she merely wanted to engage in their creation. So, we had the same thing happen to us like when we made cookies with Julie. Our cookie-making-session-instigator paid for the supplies, but we ended up getting the cookies. As always, the cookies found a new home on our dining table. That’s where they rest until the magical apartment imps consume them one by one.
