Cookie Decorating

I was sooooooooo excited to discover that Pillsbury sugar cookie dough is peanut free (I know making cookie dough is not that complicated but Pillsbury's cookies always taste better than mine AND I did not spend hours and hours in the kitchen creating cookies!).

We could have made cute little cut out shapes for our cookies, but I decided we would reserve cute little cut out shapes for Play-doh and just slice the cookies for wonderful round cookies. Perfect for decorating. And our little round, done in 12 minutes, easy cookies were very tasty!

Shirtless cookie decorating seemed like the less messy option here. Does RED icing really come out of clothes??? 

Lydia meet the cookie! 

Lydia, this is icing. 

Lydia approves of the icing! 

Eating the fruit of her very hard labor :) 

Thanksgiving

Lydia enjoying her dad's favorite Thanksgiving Tradition. Apple Crisp... 

And she loves being a big girl and eating with a spoon. 

Thanksgiving Weekend for Us was Warm. So we had a pre-Thanksgiving picnic :)

Cookies!

We had fun making the cookies even though the cookies were not that great (which is sad - sugar cookie dough, with melted caramel and coconut sprinkled on top, and then chocolate drizzled over the top. Sounds tasty, looks good, but was very chewy. Fun to try things anyway!).

Remember = messy child equals a GREAT day :) We had played at the park earlier and she was in great need of a bath. But bath before cookie making with a one year old sounded a bit foolish!

Not sure what is going to happen, but this looks like fun. 

Sadly having a chair in the kitchen for her baking was the best part of this adventure! 

Stirring the cookies! 

Peanut Lesson #3

Lemon Bars

The hardest thing about the peanut free life has been dessert! Really, who doesn't like a chocolate chip cookie after lunch? A little treat from Goodberry's after dinner? At the Stojan household one of us has a BIG sweet tooth. So enters Lemon Bars. A tasty sweet treat that is peanut free.

Still looking for a Goodberry's alternative that doesn't involve putting the child to bed and one parent sneaking out the door to make a late night run to the icecream store! But one thing is sure - we are going to be healthier people since our after dinner treat now is a walk EVERY night (we don't miss a single night!).