Sunday 24 October 2010

Baked Christmas Ornaments

Being a freelance writer, Mondays are usually crazy deadline days when last week's assignments will usually be due 'first thing Monday morning'. When I first heard this, I used to find it very amusing, with various time zones, whose 'first thing' was it going to be?

These days, to keep it simple, I've made it mine. With all assignments out of my way before 1000 hours, the rest of the day is all mine to behold and to try something new, well, every Monday at least.

Today, it was 'Baked Christmas Ornaments' which I got from Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Great Gifts.

Things I used included
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 cup salt
- Mixing bowl
- Newspapers
- Paper clips
- Rolling pin
- Cookie cutters
- Cookie sheets
- Paintbrush
- Arcylic paint
- Arcylic finish spray

Method
- Mix flour, salt and water
*If mixture is too dry, add water. If mixture is too wet, add flour.
- Roll out dough to about 1/4 inch and make ornaments with cookie cutters.
- Place ornaments on a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray.
- Place hole in ornament (with paper clip).
- Bake the ornaments in oven, 8 to 15 minutes.
- Paint with acrylic paints. Spray clear spray.

My outcome
- The cutters I used were approximately 5cm (height) x 2cm (width).
- I had a little teddy bear cookie cutter which turned out to be a real cutie!
- I used silver and tied them with a gold string. (I am camera-less at the moment, so I have only my words)
- On a down side, some of the ornaments had little bumps in them, maybe from the baking or the flour mixture, not too sure but it would be worth to try again and find out!

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