Our family has a favorite cookie for the month of October. We do these every year. Or rather, I bake the cookie part and the kids and hubby do the frosting and decorating part. They're just your ordinary sugar cookies, cut out with a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter. Then they're frosted with bright orange buttercream frosting, and faces designed with candy corn. Nothing fancy, but we all love a frosted sugar cookie.
Last Friday afternoon I baked the cookies. Then on Saturday, the family went to it with the frosting and candy. Unfortunately I ran out of yellow food coloring, so only made a bowl of frosting large enough to do half the batch of cookies, that is to say, half a batch with the large amount of frosting we all like on the cookies!
I had one of those moments on Friday afternoon, when I could have stopped at the craft store to buy more food coloring (even had a coupon in my purse that would be good on any purchase). But I thought, no, I'll have enough food coloring, no need to make a stop (and I was right there driving past the store). Saturday afternoon, I was mixing up the frosting, and you know how it is, since I decided not to buy more coloring, of course it would turn out that I needed more. One of those goofs!
But maybe this is a good thing. I'll pick up the needed coloring this afternoon, and the kids and hubby will get to do more frosting this coming weekend. You know, there is always a silver lining.
