I invited a group home of mentally challenged adults to decorate cookies on their field trip to the library. Initially, I thought a group home of retirees would also join us but their holiday party ended up at the same time. So it was the 6 adults, their supervisor, a friend, myself and 6,396,208 jimmies.
It was a blast!
I had made goodie bags, bought holiday headbands (mine was a snowman), decorated the middle of the table with a huge wreath and dumped a spool of 75 outdoor lights in the middle. Then I set mini trays (small air-fryer trays 10/$2) at each seat to catch icing drips (and those damn jimmies) and that worked perfectly.
Initially expecting more adults, I had bought 4 premade cookie kits from Walmart (64 cookies, jimmies, 4 small tubes of colored icing), 3 full-size bottles of prepared Royal Icing (from Michaels) plus I made angel sugar cookies to use as their place markers. I used Sweetapolita’s Vanilla Sugar Cookie recipe and while it's good, my favorite cut-out is still Penny’s.
Off side, I had hot apple cider from our local orchard, more premade decorated cookies (from Walmart) and a bowl of candy kisses. Truthfully, it was an insulin attack waiting to happen and I should have been more aware of that. Fortunately their supervisor helped manage the situation.
Since we were using Royal icing, I took each cookie as it was finished and set it aside to bring home, dry and package. I’ll deliver these back to their home today. For privacy’s sake, I’m posting only their results:
PS: I had originally punched holes in the angel cookies to add hanging ribbon. After decorating them, I realized ribbon would cut through the halo. So I had to do emergency celestial facial surgery to fill in the hole.
Think of it as ecclesiastic rhinoplasty.
It was a blast!
I had made goodie bags, bought holiday headbands (mine was a snowman), decorated the middle of the table with a huge wreath and dumped a spool of 75 outdoor lights in the middle. Then I set mini trays (small air-fryer trays 10/$2) at each seat to catch icing drips (and those damn jimmies) and that worked perfectly.
Initially expecting more adults, I had bought 4 premade cookie kits from Walmart (64 cookies, jimmies, 4 small tubes of colored icing), 3 full-size bottles of prepared Royal Icing (from Michaels) plus I made angel sugar cookies to use as their place markers. I used Sweetapolita’s Vanilla Sugar Cookie recipe and while it's good, my favorite cut-out is still Penny’s.
Off side, I had hot apple cider from our local orchard, more premade decorated cookies (from Walmart) and a bowl of candy kisses. Truthfully, it was an insulin attack waiting to happen and I should have been more aware of that. Fortunately their supervisor helped manage the situation.
Since we were using Royal icing, I took each cookie as it was finished and set it aside to bring home, dry and package. I’ll deliver these back to their home today. For privacy’s sake, I’m posting only their results:
PS: I had originally punched holes in the angel cookies to add hanging ribbon. After decorating them, I realized ribbon would cut through the halo. So I had to do emergency celestial facial surgery to fill in the hole.
Think of it as ecclesiastic rhinoplasty.
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