For Adults and Bachelorettes Only

I wish this post came with a recipe, but I really blew it with this one.  I'm heading back to Iowa this weekend for my friend Sara's bachelorette party and then on to the Field of Dreams for a wedding.  I bought this charming little cookie cutter for the last bachelorette party I attended, and I spent last night struggling to make use of it once again.  

I'm really bad about making cookies and keeping the recipes that I like so I can make them again, so I always end up doing a search for sugar cookie recipes.  I settled on one from Martha Stewart, and I was not impressed.  Maybe it was my fault because I made the cookies before reading the comments at the bottom, all of which recommended using another egg or more liquid of some sort.  I also assumed that all sugar cookies benefit from refrigeration before they're rolled out, but when I took a rock hard lump from the fridge I realized that nowhere in the recipe did it suggest chilling the dough.    

Dough that has been chilled but doesn't need to be is a huge pain to roll out and slice.  Trust me on this one.  

But alas, I did get some satisfactory results.  And a little Lance Armstrong in the bottom right!

After baking...

Aren't they fun?

And you can decorate them in exciting ways.  Chocolate sprinkles!

And since we're from Iowa, I had to do some cows.  

All frosted and ready to go.