Archive for May, 2010
Crayola Cookie Day
On one of the many rainy days we had earlier this month, I made cookies with Tommy from a Crayola cookie kit. I got mine at a local grocery store, but you can also buy them online at the Crayola store.
Tommy was really excited and hoped it would be a lot like dying Easter eggs. The sugar cookie mix was easy enough to mix together, but then the instructions call for you to separate the dough into balls and then color them using powdered dye packs. The packs come in red, yellow and blue, which you can mix together to make secondary colors. True to the instructions, the colors did blend well together, and they were quite vivid, but my LORD what a mess. The box recommends that an adult mix the colors together and let me just say that this should not just be a recommendation, it should be a warning, in big, bold, dayglow-orange letters. My hands were stained blue for two days (so yes, it was much like dying Easter eggs). I would have taken pictures of my hands, but I like my camera too much.
After mixing the dough and the colors, which did take a considerable amount of time – maybe a half hour – I had a very bouncy kid who was anxious to start playing with the dough. Unfortunately, I had to pop it in the fridge for another 20 minutes because the dough was too warm to work with. When we did get down to shaping the dough, we found it hard to work with because it warmed up quickly and broke apart easily, especially under eager little fingers. We tried to cut some shapes out with the few cookie cutters I have. The dough was a bit too puffy for successful results, though, as shown by our “dinosaur” and our “gingerbread man”.
Eventually we ended up smooshing all the dough together an cutting out circles with a small juice glass. And when Tommy got tied of making the little ones, he created one, giant Colossal Cookie. (Please note the size of that thing in relation to the cookie sheet.)
Despite our struggles, we did have lots of fun making them. What little boy doesn’t love a giant mess? In retrospect, it might have been fun to put the dough through one of Tommy’s Play-Doh fun factories. But I’d still be hard-pressed to buy this kit again. While the cookies were very good – I made mine with all butter – sadly, I was the only one to eat them. Apparently the boys in my house do not eat cookies unless there are chocolate chips in them.
