This weekend marked our 9th annual "cookie party" - a weekend in which we make as many cookies as possible. In the past, we'd invite people over to help, but this year we needed a weekend to ourselves, albeit a hectic weekend.
Thanks to Donna's skillful planning and stamina, we broke a record making 1181 cookies this weekend! We tried a few new recipes this time: Peppermint Ribbons (minus the white chocolate) and Butterscotch Pennies (an egg-free recipe for my niece who is allergic to eggs). The other cookies we had made before: Mounds Bar Cookies (my favorite), Snickerdoodles, Molasses Crinkles, Chocolate-dipped Orange Melts, Sugar cookies, and Spritz cookies.
The girls, being almost 7 now, are able to help with many steps instead of just "help". Mostly, they were good with decorating the cookies, but they also helped mix the ingredients at times. Since there were frequently hot pans of cookies going in and out of the oven, we didn't ask them to help during the actual baking process much.