Gettin’ Carried Away

On this day, the 25th of December, I feel I should take a break from regular posts to wish you and yours Happy Holidays from me, Carrie of Gettin’ Carried Away!

In my house, we celebrate Christmas. We attend Midnight Mass at the church I’ve attended since birth, we watch classic comdedies like Home Alone, Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story, and we break oplatki wafters before Christmas dinner. We do exchange gifts, even though the holiday spirit shouldn’t be about gift-giving. However, sometimes I feel no greater joy than finding or making the perfect present for a given person.

Last year, I wrote about several gifts that would be great for any traveler. One year later, I find myself living on a tighter budget, and I just can’t afford to spend a lot of money. But that doesn’t mean I can’t give a great gift to my favorite traveler. So get ready channel your inner Julia Child, because this homemade gift will tantalize anyone’s taste buds!

Here’s where Gettin’ Carried Away becomes part food blog…with a traveler’s twist, of course.

Airplane Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

• 2 packages of ready-made sugar cookies (I used Pillsbury)
• flour (no set measurement)
• 2 tubes of cookie icing (1 red, 1 green)

Tools

• 1 large cutting board
• 1 rolling pin
• 1 airplane cookie cutter

Directions:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Make sure all your tools (board, pin, cutter) are cleansed throughly.
• Begin by gathering FOUR (4) of the pre-cut cookies from the dough and roll them into a ball. Add a dash of flour so the dough stays firm enough to roll. You’ll also want to sprinkle a bit of flour on the cutting board, so the dough doesn’t stick as you roll it.
• Take the rolling pin, smoothen some flour all over the tool, then begin rolling out the ball of dough so it becomes a patty about ONE-HALF (1/2) an inch thick. If the dough starts sticking to the rolling pin, simply flip it over and sprinkle a little bit more flour on the dough.
• Take the airplane cookie cutter and fashion TWO (2) airplanes out of the dough.
• Repeat this process until you have over a dozen airplanes ready to bake.
• Bake for NINE (9) minutes, but keep a close eye on the cookies. Depending on your oven, it can take just SEVEN (7) minutes to bake the cookies.
• Once the cookies cool, pipe the frosting out of the tube and smoothen with the back of a measuring spoon.

VOILA! Airplane cookies for your favorite traveler!