Christmas Cookies

For Christmas dessert I made 2 different kinds of cookies. I made these Reindeer Sugar Cookies first:

The original recipe used peanut butter cookies, but Dal is allergic to peanuts and I didn't want to risk a trip to the hospital on Christmas. What I didn't think through was that sugar cookies are thinner than most cookies, which made it difficult for the 'antlers' to stay. However, after much trial and error, help from my dad, and help from an egg-shaped cookie cutter he changed to 'reindeer shaped', we got the pretzel antlers to stay :) Thanks dad for your help! And thanks to my mom for tasting the dough before I rolled it out. I forgot the sugar, talk about gross- don't know how that happened! Haha.

I also made Chocolate-Peppermint Wafer Cookies. These are seriously so delicious!

I found this recipe on pinterest (shocker, I know). Just go to www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/chocolate-peppermint-wafers-recipe-00000000024240/

The only thing I changed was I used milk chocolate instead of semi or bittersweet. Milk chocolate is the best :)

*Helpful Hint* Again, after much trial and error, and help from my parents, we found the best way to melt the chocolate and not overheat it, was to melt it in the microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring in between.

Merry Christmas!