Spring time sugar cookies!

Ok, so a perk to being an activity day leader is I get to make special treats for the girls for recognition night.  Yesterday was my first recognition night with the girls.  I must say the work that they do in a year is impressive!  I wanted to make something special for them and had to take a milk allergy into consideration when preparing these lovelies.  So I altered my regular Almond sugar cookie recipe by using butter flavored crisco and using the royal icing from http://www.bakeat350.blogspot.com/.  I love her step by step instructions and photos for how to make the icing.  Only thing I didn't do right was I didn't add enough karo syrup so they weren't as shiny after they dried.  Next time...
I liked how the crisco kept the cookies softer longer as well.  Might keep this substitution for future uses!

I also reallized that since I so rarely use my kitchen table to eat at that I could use bed risers to lift my table up six inches so I have a surface counter height to work on!  Now I just need to go buy them! Its amazing how messed up my back was after baking and decorating 100+ cookies!  I can't wait to have a real house with a real kitchen so I don't have to have cookies lining my table, stacked on the stove and drying on boxes all over my living room. 
It was a great evening and I didn't have to take a single cookie home with me!