Frosted Christmas Cookies

Last night, I baked a large portion of the 8x batch of sugar cookies that I mixed up the night before. The photos below show some of the variations I came up with for decor.

This is not really frosting. It's the meltable candy coating that comes in blocks. I like to use it for decorating cookies because once it's cooled, it's hard enough that the cookies can be stacked. I melt it very carefully in the microwave (at 20% which is "Cook Power 2" on my microwave) inside a zippered plastic baggie with one corner snipped for piping.

I baked enough cookies for two huge cookie trays and a big plate of cookies for us. That  was about 12 dozen cookies. Then I froze the remaining dough -- if Pillsbury can do it, I can too.

Today I gave my son one of the trays of cookies to take to the post office. (As a CCA -- city carrier assistant -- he has to work Sundays to deliver Amazon, believe it or not.) I took the other tray by my former workplace and put it in the breakroom. It was well received.