The never ending Valentines Day cookies

Happy Belated Valentines Day!!!
Being the silly romantic that I tend to be on occasion, I decided that I would make valentines day cookies for my sweetie. Not to mention I couldn't afford to buy fancy ones. Let me tell you about this adventure. I started with a very simple recipe for the dough involving the simple flour, egg, butter, sugar combo, which I quickly and later regret, TRIPLED. I lost my mind, and thought that if I was going to be romantic, I was going to be 100 cookie romantic. HA! What an idea. So a few hours later, after I had dough coming out of every corner of my kitchen, I stopped making dough and enlisted some extra helping hands. I called two of my best buds, Adam and Andrew, who both were looking for something cute to do for their sweeties, so naturally they turned to me to make cookies. We started baking these cookies with the X O and HEART shaped cookie cutters I got at the $1 store around 7pm. After the Adam the engineer over analyzed the depth and consistency of rolling out the dough, we were on a roll. While the boys were rolling and baking, I was mixing frosting, and getting the sprinkles in order. I had no idea what a test of attention span this was going to take. Keep in mind, there were sports on the television, and I had to keep reeling the boys back in, saying things like, "Tiffany's is really expensive, COME BAKE COOKIES!". So after the 274 cookies were finally baked, we had to move on to icing. Clearly the most entertaining aspect of the night. The boys quickly made it a competition on different combinations of colors/sprinkles they had on their cookies. Very entertaining, it must be the sports thing in them. It only took us until about 11pm to finally finish frosting the cookies, and the last hour, I was the only one frosting, because Adam was on the phone with his long distance girlfriend, and Andrew just told me he was "over it". Needless to say this was an experience! And now I am a few days out of Valentines Day, still eating cookies! My sweetie really appreciated them, but didn't want 75 of them. So now I eat and take pictures. And maybe next year I will save a few dollars to buy cookies!

Food is Art is Life