If Pinterest is to be believed, your Christmas cookies should look like delicate snowflakes crafted by friendly woodland elves. In reality, you end up with lumps that vaguely resemble a melted snowman’s last cry for help.
Flour ends up in your hair, the counters look like a frosting battlefield, and the gingerbread men? They look more like gingerbread blobs, each giving you the side-eye as if to say, “Really?” But hey, it’s the taste that counts, right? And if all else fails, just bury them under enough sprinkles to blind an elf, and nobody will know the difference.