Christmas Cookies! (A Blog A Day #6)

The last two years at Christmastime, my friends and I have gotten together to decorate cookies.  We split up the shapes and bake them ahead of time, then gather to prepare the icing, and sit around the table decorating until they're all done.  Here are the cookies from 2010:

In 2010, we made the icing using Wilton's Color Flow.  It worked well, but our second batch was very clumpy, which made it difficult to decorate.  In 2011, I bought Wilton's cookie icing, hoping it would save us some time.  Unfortunately, it was too runny to use for outlining, so we ended up having to empty it into bowls and add more powdered sugar to thicken it up.  Kind of defeated the whole "time-saving" effort.  In the end, though, we had fun, and got lots of great cookies!