Yesterday was a good day. I sat in a meeting first thing. For two hours we laid out who is responsible for doing what in the formation of the new school. And then it was off to the most important meeting of the day. Little Miss Cotton and Oxi were coming to my house to bake cookies. Not just any cookies, mind you, but super sugary rainbow cookies.

I have been experimenting with different cookie recipes lately in order to build something so super sweet that it would satiate Oxi’s internal sugar Kraken’s sweet tooth. I think I found it. (There was a challenge of sorts and I accepted.) Anyways, they came by the house to help me build these monsters.

So, you start with a simple sugar cookie recipe and substitute clementine for lemon. Then, divide your cookie dough into 4 equal parts (refrigerating the dough helps) and dye each part a different color. We opted for the standard food coloring red, blue, yellow, green. Once they are all dyed, place them in bowl together, but be careful not to mix them too much. Now, if you are using a cookie scoop, scoop cookie dough from the center of thew bowl and then slowly work the remaining dough back toward the center of the bowl with a spatula or scraper to replace the used dough. Sprinkle half of your cookies with rainbow sugar crystals. These cookies will be your tops. (Ah, you are finally catching on to what we’re doing.) Now, start baking.

While your cookies are baking and/or cooling, it’s time to make buttercream icing. I don’t know if you know this, but buttercream icing has neither butter nor cream in it. It is just vegetable shortening and powdered sugar (and an extract like vanilla, maybe a splash of milk). Once you get your icing made, divide it into four and repeat the dying process. Then put your four colors of icing into a pastry bag.

Once your cookies are baked and cooled and your icing’s made, it is time to assemble your super sugary rainbow creations. Sugar cookie on bottom, buttercream icing in the middle, sugar crystal coated sugar cookie on top. And Voila!

It’s like an oatmeal cream pie, but leaning more toward the causing diabetic coma side of things. These cookies are ridiculous. During the process we were making mental notes as to how to make them easier and more efficiently next time. Good scientists always seek to make improvements and be more accurate.

I have three rainbow cookie sandwiches left if anybody wants one. Just call or email me and I’ll put your name on one.

Today is a going to be a day of craziness. I’m going to help Le Duke get ready to leave for France. The good news is that he’s loaning me his car while he’s gone. Hooray for car! Then there’s school prep stuff and then tutoring this evening. Then, I’m probably doing something really nerdy. Just saying.

Well, I’d better get to walking before it starts raining. More soon. ~SC