What I made this Christmas (WIMTC)

 My hubby made these.  It's his way of man-i-fying the cookie decorating process!

I love making Christmas cookies each year - but I love decorating them even more!  We're trying to not focus on food over the holidays, but it was fun to keep up this tradition (and give away the majority of the cookies!). 

I used a different type of icing this year and liked it a lot.  Instead of buying something store bought I made a glaze-ish icing.  I saw this idea online and decided to run with it using a basic recipe I keep in my head:

1 bag of powdered sugar
some melted butter ( a couple tablespoons)
a splash of vanilla
a tiny dash of salt (so it's no overly sweet)
milk

I beat everything together, adding the milk until it had a slightly runny consistency.  Then I refrigerated it overnight, and set it out for an hour or so the next day before using it.  The goal was for the icing to spread easily using a pastry brush, but not to run everywhere and make the cookies wet.  I liked it a lot and I think it's my new standard cookie icing!

I made a lot of stuff this Christmas.  Gifts, food, projects for our home, etc.  And I actually took a lot of pictures too - but I never had time to put them up.  So I'll slowly start showing them as I get the pictures on to the computer (first I have to find that cord...).