Christmas baking and cooking shows

Well I think we are FINALLY done with our Christmas baking. I have lost count of how many dozens of cookies we have made, but it's over 10, not including the pfeffernusse. Today we made truffles for Emma's teachers and dog-bone shaped sugar cookies for Ada's party on Sunday.  Two days ago we made our best cookies so far, white chocolate chip, coconut cookies with almond extract, which I added in. They were soft and yummy...and pink. We tried to color the coconut red to be festive, but, as I feared, it just turned it all pink. Oh well, still yummy. Emma is always good helper,  but she just wants to help so much, it is always a good workout for my patience. We have lots of conversations about following directions, washing hands, and why we are doing things a certain way.  But she is way beyond normal 4 year olds...she can crack an egg without getting shell in the batter or making a mess. It's one of her favorite jobs. She also loves to wash dishes. And after watching my food shows with me, she is quite the food critic...although she still has to eat it even if she "didn't like the taste of it." She loves to chant, "get it on the plate!" As we are watching. :) 

We tried to make some of our leftover truffles into snowmen. As they would say on in our shows, it was a good idea, but we did not execute it well.

Her other favorite part is kicking the batter. As she licked these beaters from the Oreo truffles, she said, "I don't like the cream cheese in these, but I do like the chicken." (Ingredients in these are Oreos  and cream cheese.)

Cleaning up sprinkles.

She really wanted to do the 'wet mopping.'

Our pink cookies.