This afternoon Caitlin came over for a baking date. We made Halloween cookies – chocolate and vanilla. I had forgotten how much work it is to make roll-out cookies. It took us a little over five hours to make what you see on the right – making the dough, rolling out the cookies, baking them, then decorating. We were both pooped by the end of it. Though they did turn out rather pretty with the sprinkles and black glitter. My favourite were the skeleton fish cookies (fish aren’t a staple of the Halloween season, but I couldn’t find the bat cookie cutter – and I wanted more than moons and cats.) Making roll-out cookies is different from other baking in that it’s always more fun to make the cookies than to eat them. The pleasure comes out of choosing which cutter to use, mixing the icing colours and sprinkling with candy-coloured sugar. Looks comes first. Taste - while still good -- is secondary.