J.M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan in 1911. A much loved classic about the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Walt Disney who loved the story, wanted to make an eponymous movie on the story. His plan was that Peter Pan would be his second full length animated movie, after Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. After …
I like sugar cookies.
And I love snowflakes, especially of the cookie kind.
I like Poinsettias too! Love the red and green contrast.
Every year in December I gift myself a small pot of Poinsettia, only to have it die on me by January. So this year I decided I’ll make a sugar cookie version.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Here in Sunny Singapore, the temperature does not change. So there is no dashing through any snow, nor chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
The only fall in temperature is at the malls which become even colder than before.
But Orchard road is beautifully lit. And there are tall and imposing Christmas trees in every corner and the smell of baking in the air!
I’m making sugar cookies, cinnamon snaps, shortbread and lemon-passion bars. Do you have a favourite cookie?
Radhika
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