How Sweet It Is!

Stan & Ed have been very busy cookie baking. It has been a 2 day process. The first day involved mixing the dough up. It involved a lot of butter, sugar and flour. Stan has been baking these cookies since he was a young boy in Allentown. He always mixes the dough by hand so it is quite a process. Pleep and Delete offered to help but Ed was afraid Pleep would just eat the dough. After the dough was mixed, they had to form it into logs and then put it in the refrigerator until the next day.

Friday morning the real process started. Ed & Stan got out the boards and rolling pins. The secret to Stan's cookies is how thin he rolls the dough. It takes a lot of practice to roll it out so thin. This is only Ed's second year of rolling but he is getting pretty good. With the dough so thin, cutting and transferring the cookies to the cookie sheet is a challenge too. Pleep decided he would help Diana with step 2 - Decoration. Peggy had the last step - baking. Pleep was very worried about this because the Heidkamp family tradition seems to involve burning things rather than baking them.

Everything turned out and no cookies were burnt. We aren't certain how many cookies we actually baked; they covered the dining room table and were stacked fairly high. After everything was cooled, we filled a lot of containers. Pleep and Delete were in charge of the containers. Pleep is trying to decide with whom he wants to share his cookies.