X Cookies

These are the shortbread cookies my mother made for the graduation party. Again, the symbol of the university is an X and the color is royal blue. It was extremely difficult to find an X cookie cutter. We had one, but the edges were rounded and it was quite tiny. Our neighbors had one, but it was even smaller and the shape was very thin. My father tried bending one out of an old tin of chocolates  but it ended up being way too big. then he bent too more from circle cookie cutters, and they turned out to be a good size, but extremely fragile. Believe it or not, all of the stores we checked, even specialty baking stores, did not have an X cookie cutter. Pictured about are two cookies using the small round cookie cutter, and two cookies using the second cookie cutter my father bent. Who would have thought it would be so much trouble just to make X-shaped cookies! Oh well, we managed in the end, and decorated them with blue sprinkles.