The outcome was that they looked great - but more than less than half of the batch turned out. The dough formed almost three dozen cookies and I was lucky to get a small portion of that. Everyone second one seemed to break on me as I lifted them from the cookie tray. I was so devasted that I even requested silence from the tv in the living room so that I could concentrate. I luckily had just under two dozen cookies. I thought, "okay, this will be enough - no biggy, I won't need to go buy something". But nope...that wasn't the end of it. While I was icing them one by one thinking what a roll I'm on and then bam! an arm breaks off! What the heck!! As I kept making my way through the rest of the icing, I was crossing my fingers that I would at least get a dozen out of this by the end. Thankfully, 14 made it through the rounds!
In the end beautiful, sparkling Almond Buttercream Sugar Cookies were created.
Although....I think I might stick to the good 'ole reliable circular cookies for a while until this experience becomes less vivid and I forget how frustrating it was. Darn Bake Sale! - although we did raise over $200!
I iced the little arms that broke off and brought those into work for people to munch on before the Bake Sale and left the really mangled ones at home for Josh! Oppps, sorry babe! Thanks for the encouragement and quiet working space though, I guess I owe you.
