Creative Christmas Cookies

As you might have guessed, with the holidays bearing down upon us, things have slowed down here around the studio, photographically speaking. A combined blessing-curse, of course, as I am enjoying time with my kin and beloved friends, but I have fewer photographs to work on and share with you all.

While things wind down, I am rediscovering the joy of bringing out my camera more often for the beautiful mundane. At a small party in our apartment this Saturday, I also discovered what a delightfully creative medium decorating Christmas cookies can be!

We started out with some traditional shapes — stars, trees, snowmen, and the like — but soon became bored, and whipped out a few x-acto knives in order to cut our own shapes out of the dough. Multi-colored frosting added even more variables, and we ended up with quite an assortment of the quirky and macabre:

Clockwise from top left: a pizza cookie, a man in the moon, a bra, a banana & some trapezoids; a color wheel, some eggs and toast, and an Obama cookie.

While in the process of making the cookies, I noticed that my spatula’s pattern cast an interesting silhouette on the snowmen shapes:

Probably the only snowmen on planet earth that registers a skeleton.