Christmas Cookies et al.

JM had a Christmas party, and we made and decorated approximately 75 cookies.

Note my blueberry cheesecake...

Berry pies! We also made "Merry XMEN" and "Merry XKCD".

DNA!!

Gosh. Fat. 4/3 cups of butter, melted. I don't recall ever smelling butter... but melted butter today smelled disgusting. Absolutely putrid. I don't know how I've never noticed it...

Graham Cracker Houses Studded with Sugar

Is it bird or a plane?! It's... both. It's in the bird's eye [or plane] point of view! So, the question is, is it a tree or a house? It looks like a Christmas tree, sure, but it's actually...

GRAHAM CRACKER HOUSE! Whoot! I don't really eat graham crackers [ever since I found out there's PHO in them... I don't like trans fat], and I don't eat premade icing either [PHO], but it was sure fun creating houses! I decided to make a triangular one because... well, everyone elses' houses' angles added up to 360 degrees. Or two pi [aw, I can't make a pie joke here!], so I decided I just wanted one pi.

It looks like a monster... note the eyes, the wrapper nose, and the tongue/path thingy. "Why the long face?" Haha...

AK had a graham cracker house party, so that's why there are all these houses [and one igloo!]. AK's house looks like a summer outhouse! :D

The ingredients included: graham crackers, brown or white icing, M&Ms, York peppermint pieces, gummy worms [well. Those got eaten...], gummy bears, marshmallows, yucky gumdrops, dots, fat jelly beans, Skittles and Rolos.

I need to make some gingerbread... Well, that'll be something I'll do on the 26th.

None of this food is healthy. Maybe there are vegetable/fruit/whole grain houses, out there, for Christmas, but the kids would overwhelmingly prefer sugar-sprinkled houses, right? It's the activity to do, even for people who don't actually believe in Christmas. It's become a holiday that's commercialized, and I'm not sure why I'm partaking in this commercialism. And this weight gain...

Amy Gutmann's Study Break

Holiday style!

There were cookies, nuts, chocolate, a chocolate fountain, and drinks, brought to us by Amy Gutmann's hired catering company [the same one as the one at Halloween?]. It was in her backyard, and it was indoors inside this huge tent, tinted blue.

Cliche holiday cookies, with nice normal milk chocolate.

Dry, airy sticky buns that tasted quite bland and cold. I did not like it.

Milk Chocolate!

The disgusting liquorice-ish cookies are the white ones... I'm not sure if it's liquorice or anise or something... but it was disgusting! I thought it was powdered sugar.

Coconut macaroons, caramel thins...chocolate cookies. Tuesday 14 December.

INJUREBREAD!!

At the EcoReps Holiday Party, we decorated gingerbread figures from Trader Joe's. I love Trader Joe's, but the gingerbread was really bland. No kidding... it was dry and tasteless, but had an AMAZING texture. Too bad the gingery-sweet flavour didn't make up for it...I did like the chocolate candy covered in a candy shell. I did not like the icing from the cans... because, well, it's icing from a can, with a zillion stabilisers and propylene glycol and PHO and other random materials to make it never expire. Whoot!

Anyway, I first made a gingerbread bikini-clad girl with two other people but later I made my own gingerbread person. Hermaphrodite. I dunno...perhaps asexual.

Then I decided to go all out with a skeleton, too.

I mean... gingerbread items have rights, right? Haha...

The white dots are clotting factors. And fibrin. Haha. INJUREBREAD! I also posted this on So Much Pun

Ice Cream Cakes.

My sister's friend's parents [which, in other words, are my parents' friends, which, in other words, are my acquaintances and/or friends] own an ice cream store. They own the Carvel on Main Street in Madison. I did mention them before, when I had the chance of actually making stuff at the store for fun!!!!
Anyway, over the past two years, they've been giving us ice cream cakes for the usual American holidays. It's pretty cool, literally, for my sister because she adores vanilla ice cream. I personally am not as huge an ice cream fan as I am a cookie/cake/baked stuff/bread fan. So, it's awesome, yes, but not as amazing as if I got free baguettes every few months.
They gave me a graduation ice cream cake, though, so that was cool! I cut off my name, though, since there are the issues of spammers and stalkers and idiots who use the internet to my disadvantage, if I were to release my name to the world. So, in reality the cake looks better :)

And, the past.


Look at that texture! It's actually whipped cream.
Fudge topping. I approve. Usually, it's just a layer of vanilla and chocolate, with chocolate cookie/cone crumbs in between. Along with PHOs but I suppose these are sentimental exceptions, not that I consume much ice cream cake...