Piggysnoot

The day I’ve been waiting for since last November is finally here…Daytona 500 day. I’ve scheduled everything for the day around this event. Mom and I are going to the mall…with the understanding that we leave there by noon so I don’t miss anything important. I have my race day gear all set out…Jeff Gordon lounge pants, Jeff Gordon shirt, and checkered flag socks. Sounds dorky, I know…but I don’t care. I’ve even planned our food around the race. For lunch (which will be done pre-race so we don’t miss anything) we’re having tail-gate burgers and curly fries. I’m grillin’ the burgers and I thought (even though it’s a stretch) the curly fries would represent the springs/shocks of the cars. I also spent last night and this morning making Daytona 500 cut out cookies. I just used a sugar cookie mix, rolled them out, used a glass and a spice jar lid to make the tire shape, and frosted them.

There were quite a few fiascos involved in making these masterpieces. First I had to go to our local craft store to get a cookie cutter and black food coloring. This isn’t a fiasco in and of itself…but the guy that works there belched in my face once, and he follows you around in the store like you’re going to steal something…so I dread going there…but when they have what you need, well, what are you gonna do? I leave said store with my food coloring and a doughnut cutter. I figured the doughnut cutter would be perfect because it’d do all the work at once…cut out the tire and the inside. Fast forward a few days to when Larry is cleaning the kitchen. He throws away the bag with my goods…it’s the day before trash day…so by the time we realized what happened it had already gone out in the trash. Side note: I did search through the 2 trash bags that were out there just in case it was post-trash-day. Of course I didn’t know that the stuff was gone until it was 7pm Friday night and I had mixed up the dough, and the craft store was closed.

In comes Mom to save the day. She suggested I use a glass and cut the inside of the tires out with the lid from one of my spice jars. Merrily I went to do the cookies. I used the mix like I said, so it only made 2 dozen cookies…which is good because by the time you roll and cut out 2 dozen tire cookies, you’ve had enough. Plus there won’t be 6 dozen cookies sitting around my house just begging to be eaten. I make plans to frost the cookies Saturday night after our Stampin’ Up! workshop. No problem.

Also in the mean time, my aunt is discharged from the hospital (on Thursday actually) where she had been since Monday. I figured that she wouldn’t want to be cooking, having just returned home, so I made a lasagna and some chocolate chip cookies for their family. Do you see where this is going? Saturday morning we took over their lasagna and plate of foil covered cookies. Now do you see where this is going? I didn’t check the plate. I GAVE THEM OUR DAYTONA 500 COOKIES…only I didn’t realize it until last night at 8pm when I mixed up the frosting, uncovered our foil covered plate of cookies to discover, much to my horror, chocolate chip cookies. I quickly called to see if there was any way I could exchange our plate for theirs. They had eaten all but 2 or 3 of the unfrosted Daytona cookies. What luck I have, huh?

We headed out to the store (only because Larry insisted…I was ready to throw in the towel) to get more cookie mix. So at 8:30 at night I started making more tire cut out cookies. They were frosted black at 9:30pm. I did the writing this morning (around 8am), and all is well. As much work and effort went into them…and as much as it seemed the powers that be were against me making them…they better be some damn good cookies!