Frosting Fiasco!

So I wish I could say I've been super productive on the days I haven't posted here. And some days I have been. Others, not so much. Or rather, not as much as I would like.

But what I did manage to accomplish was making my yearly batch of Christmas cookies! I did that Tuesday afternoon so they could be decorated Wednesday.

Here's some decoratin' going on:

The pet sitter was drafted into helping. She claimed she enjoyed it...

The problem came, however, when the frosting didn't seem to want to work right. We had a ton of trouble getting the stuff to even stick to the cookies, let alone getting the decorations stuck to the frosting. 

Eventually, we just got the icing on as best we could, put a bunch of sprinkles and stuff on plates, and smashed the coolies into the decorations. 

Well - it worked, mostly. The problem was that the cookies... don't look all that great. Some are kind of... ugly in fact. They taste good! But let's just say, I'm going to call this my "Abstract Period". Ha ha.

Take a look:

So after all was said and done and my helper left (in reality, the pet sitter who came to get her key, lol), I realized that - when I was making the frosting, I forgot to put in milk. And that is why the frosting was hard like it had already set. *sigh* Sometimes it sucks getting old...

The finished product, such as it is...

Did I mention that they still taste good, though? Yummm...

:)