the sweet smell of sugar cookies

i did it! ...with the help of boyfriend. 

dough is one tough cookie. pun intended. 

even though i followed this recipe to the tee, my dough ended up like falling apart. granted, i don't have a mixer, maybe that has something to do with it. but byofriend came to the rescue and helped me kneed it back together so we could cut out shapes to bake & decorate. of course, here in israel there are no cute, christmas-themed cookie cutters so i used stars & heart's.

crumbled m&m's, oreo hershey bar & 

mint, dark chocolate for toppings

 i melted already-ready vanilla icing & added a drop of food coloring to make pink & light green

they came out dangerously delishious!!! 

i have seriously already eaten like 5 in a span of 1 hour...