I was feeling a little sad that we didn't do any Christmas baking and since Craig has been asking for snickerdoodles for about a week now, Anna & I got to it this afternoon. We did have to use ghee since we couldn't find vegetable shortening at the store (incidentally, you cannot buy vanilla extract here because it contains alcohol. I haven't found if I can buy vanilla beans or not).
I put Anna in charge of rolling the balls of dough in the sugar & cinnamon. She took her job very seriously. I didn't see her try to sneak any bites and she did a really good job! The cookies themselves turned out pretty OK. They didn't flatten out though and I'm not sure why (still cooked all the way through and tasted fine). I had to mix the dough in the largest pot we have because I only have one mixing bowl (I bought myself) and it was too small to mix both wet & dry ingredients in it.
Once she was done rolling the dough in sugar & cinnamon, she tried a few baked cookies and then got down and got to work in her own kitchen.
