Candy Cane Cookies

I got a little crazy on a school night and actually let my boys make Christmas cookies. I blame it on the Family Fun magazine that keeps showing up even though we haven't renewed our subscription for forever---And their cookies this month looked divine. I showed the boys all the pictures of the cookies during dinner--and they all got excited-

So we decided to make the candy can cookies--

The boys were actually pretty independent--they wanted to put them together all by themselves. The only problem was that we didn't have peppermint flavoring so we used mint. Turns out that wasn't a good substitution--

None of the boys liked them--except for Ricky. And no, he doesn't NOT remind you of a little dog in this picture.