Christmas Cookies in Korea^^

That's right folks, after a botched attempt at making sugar cookies, I think I finally figure it out. Round 1 occurred on Sunday when I made dough. I got a recipe off of a lovely website and then proceeded to attempt to make the batter. Here's where the problems started. Sticks of magarine back home have handy-dandy measures on them. They don't here...so I just guessed (yeah, bad idea). They also don't have powdered sugar here. So, I bought what looked like powdered sugar (the Korean translation was "new sugar"). Yeah...probably not powdered sugar. Luckily, I bought vanilla when I was home in the summer (they also don't sell that here). I didn't know what 1 teaspoon was in metric units though, so I guessed (horribly wrong I might add). Needless to say, round 1 left me with unedible dough. Round 2: I went to E-Mart (a huge store...kinda like a super Walmart) went to the organic section and found real powdered sugar (expensive yes, but it said "powdered sugar" in English!). Then tonight I converted the recipe into Metric units. For your information, 1 cup of margarine is 225 grams. And 1 teaspoon is 5 ml. I made the dough and tasted it before refrigerating it! Surprisingly enough, it tasted normal!!!! WOOHOO!!! After letting my dough sit in the fridge for an hour, I warmed up the toaster oven (since I don't have a regular oven, this is all I was left with). I have no idea what temperature my toaster oven cooks at, but my cookies are fully baked in 5 minutes (instead of the 8-10 that the recipe calls for). I just learned though, my toaster oven needs to cool off after like 3 batches of cookies. So, it's going to be a long, slow process, but I might eventually have Christmas cookies!! (Thanks for sending me cookie cutters last year Mom!!!) Tomorrow night I'm going to see "The Nutcracker" in ballet form with some friends here, it should be good! Then Saturday morning (Christmas Eve) I'm going to attemp to frost my cookies before the party crews arrive. I'm hosting a dinner for 10 people. Making steaks on my gas range should be interesting! At least we'll have lots of fixings to go with them, plus my Wine-Mushroom steak sauce (which I will be making)

~Merry Christmas~