We completed our annual Cookie Baking Party yesterday. We ended up with 781 cookies, which is quite a bit more than we had aimed for. Although we had just one family stop by to help, it was a fun but tiring day.
The girls wanted to help bake the cookies and help eat the cookies. They actually did save some time during one part of the process, when they were able to unwrap Hersey kisses by themselves. I discovered, though, that they could not do this unsupervised if I wanted the kisses to stay uneaten.
Our focus was on the Mounds Bar cookies this year, since that tends to be the most-requested. We ended up with an even 200 of those, which is plenty to be able to distribute them liberally among our friends and coworkers. We also made Snickerdoodles, Molasses Crinkles, Chocolate Dipped Orange Melts, Spritz cookies, and a new recipe: Buttermint Sugar cookies. We were finished at about 11:15 last night.
Posted by Rob Reid at December 13, 2004 08:29 AM