Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Cookies!

It may have only been the first of December, but we cracked out the rolling pins and cookie cutters and punched out some sweet cookies. My host mother woke up earlier than my host brother an me, so she mixed up some of the batter ahead of time. I've been promising pictures for a while, so I took a bunch during the cookie day.










These first two shots are to show the sheer volume of cookies that we produced. The mountain of little ones were made with this cool little machine, one of those things you see on TV be figure they will never work. It took a little getting used to, but we were busting out sheet after sheet of these little cookies once we got in the swing, while one sheet was in the oven, we'd empty, clean, and refill the next sheet. The other cookies are made the old fashion style, rolled out with a pin and punched out with different shaped cutters. We got creative with a few, pulling out a knife and making out own designs, among them, some snowmen, a big angel, and a guitar.










Here are my teammates hard at work, decorating the cookies.




Cookies aside, I visited the Christmas market that's just down the street from me, the one I was planning on taking pictures at and writing about, but it turned out to be pretty small, at least for the moment, so I didn't bother writing about it or taking pictures. When I head to the big one in the middle of Hamburg, I will make sure to write something.

Also, I'm going to start an E-mail list for blog update reminders, if you want to know instantly when a new blog is up, just send an e-mail to ksacherman@gmail.com to get on the list!