Wok Cookies

We love making Christmas cookies!  We try to make our cut out cookies every year with another family, it just simply adds to the fun, the Christmas music, the fellowship, the decorating it is just great.  This year we are very thankful to be able to have our new friends the Goetz family whom also live in Singapore join us for our cookie day. 

This morning Keegan and I set out to make the dough as it has to chill for a good hour before you can roll it out.  We brought a lot of things with us from the states but as we cook we realize more things that should have made it into our shipment, like a BIG mixing bowl for example. 

Our cookie recipe called for 7 cups of flour as we were making a double batch and I have no dish that will hold 7 cups of flour plus all of the other ingredients in the cookies.  A slight panic set in until we realized we can mix our dough in our wok, and that is exactly what we did.

Keegan got all the dough pre-flour into the wok.  We had to keep the wok on the stove because that is where the stabilizing ring is.  Then it was time to add the flour

In actuality it was kind of nice to mix the dough in the wok because of the shape of the wok it was easy to mix.

  And here is our dough:

We also did not bring our cookie cutters with us so we had to make some patterns for those of us like me who did not want to totally free cut the cookies.

Caleb found some basic shapes on the computer and we then cut them out of card stock to use as a cutting pattern.  We are now ready for the Goetz family to arrive.   The music is playing the dough, frosting and sprinkles are all set to go.

Even with the templates I must say there was much creativity in our cookie making I really enjoyed not having cookie cutters as it allowed for much more creativity in our cookie design.

If you notice some out of place flour in these next few pictures that is due to a slight flour fight that broke out in the kitchen :)

The kids did a great job with the decorating and Tammy and I enjoyed our creative outlet as well it was a nice and relaxing time together.

Our finished products are great, you would never guess they were made in a wok and hand cut and so much fun was had by all.

When we finished with the cookies we all headed down to the pool for a swim before the rain came.  Our day ended with a few rounds of "killer UNO" and "spoons" followed by breakfast for dinner hash browns, banana pancakes and scrambled eggs.  We welcome any visitors, we will be sure to offer you one of our "wok cookies".