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Cookies!  Christmas Cookies!

An under-appreciated art.  So many possibilities.   So many risks.

(I used to be a squid.)

Some practitioners, sticking to standard shapes provided by metal cutters, focus on surface area, going for the painterly.  (Or, as seen above, the textual.)

Some are more involved with the textural (i.e. dried-fruital!)  They may seek out historical themes.

Joan Of Arc (In Dried Papaya)

Intrigued by the plasticity of the dough (we are using this as term of art rather than taste), some eschew standard cookie cutters, and go for their personal cutting-edges.   The  self-made bas relief offers a huge range, from the high brow (ahem) to the fungal.

Some, seeking, perhaps, ultimate naturalism, both shape and paint.

All delicious, though (almost) too beautiful to eat.

(My preferences for the dough:  in making gingerbread, go for the really thick, almost bitter, blackstrap, health food store molasses.  For plain old sugar cookies–try a recipe with tons of lemon zest.   Those who made the frosting for the cookies above also put quite a bit of lemon in the ordinary confectioners’ sugar/egg white mixture, which was wonderful.)

PS. I can’t take credit for any of the cookies here.  I was feeding the artists, and occasionally, washing bowls.  (As always, all rights reserved.)

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