First night : "Makes about 6 dozen cookies." I read through the rest of the recipe, and considered the meticulously cut star shapes with two-toned frosting in the photo. I could do without a 6-dozen-cookie-with-icing task, so I mixed up half the recipe, wrapped it in plastic and went to bed. Second night: I tried to ready myself for frosting cookies, which would be the third step in this process. I'm not really a glutton for punishment, and I haven't frosted a cookie since my kids were little. I can extrude cookie dough through a disposable plastic bag, but icing a cookie requires special equipment. First, you draw the outline of the cookie around the edges with perfectly flowing icing through a tiny metal tip on the end of a pastry bag. You let this dry while keeping the rest of the icing moist. Guess what? It all wants to dry out, so you have to cover it with wet paper towels. I remember making only a limited amount and putting it in my pastry bag all at onc...
I began this blog when my mother was ill and needed enough of my attention that I could not concentrate on longer-form works I wanted to write. I set those aside to distract myself with cookie-making and this blog. Please find my new blog (2020) entitled "Time NOT Lost" at karenbrattesani.blogspot.com, where I explore the behavior I see around me -- both my own and that of others -- and what it says about our changing culture during the coronavirus pandemic. And, I hope, beyond.