Portia Cureton Cookies

Or as I like to call them, Lady What's-Her-Face cookies (Amanda only had to tell me the proper name about a thousand times before I remembered). Amanda is the master (or I suppose that should be mistress?) of these delicious cookies. She takes the time to roll and cut out dozens of them, a chore that can take hours in the quantities we tend to make. (To be clear, I don't intentionally duck out on the work...she just always started these while I was still at school.) And then came the fun part: we break out the buttercream, sprinkles, and whatever else we think will be useful (which, if you're Andrew, includes red pepper flakes) and start decorating!

These cookies are made for holidays, so there are only so many holiday-themed shapes we have to work with. As you can see, we tend to get a little, um, creative after a while. Halloween wasn't too crazy:



As you can see, we were taking it quite seriously, everyone studiously decorating away.



Though in the end, we did have Mr. Potato Head and a hemorrhaging brain (hey, you can only make so many pumpkins before you try for something else).

St. Patrick's Day, however, was a different story....



Perhaps it was influenced by the beer bottle cookies, that we started getting creative quickly, or maybe just by that time in our 3L year, we were at a point of lunacy. Either way, we have Darby O'Gille (complete with pennies over his eyes), Conan O'Brian (or an Oompa Loompa, depending on who you ask), "No Man [gummybear] Is An Island", and the gummy bear representation of Envy...



...a bathroom door, disco dancers on a record, man drowning head-first in quicksand, a Chesire cat...



...Hannibal Lector, a ventriloquist, a mummy, a man drowning in water, a gummy bear sacrifice, and man-eating gummy bears.

Umm...yeah... Coincidentally, we've never been invited back since taking these to a party. I wonder why?