cookies, cookies, everywhere
this year, I bowed to the inevitable and took a day off work so as to complete my holiday gift baking. that, plus being more organized than ever before, as well as David's fabulous help, has allowed me to actually finish all the cookies in one weekend, and have them all in the mail almost immediately after baking them. this all makes me really happy.
the weekend cookie tally in batches:1.5 oatmeal date
4.0 peanut butter
2.0 molasses
2.0 chocolate chip
2.5 snickerdoodle
2.0 cranberry apricot chocolate chews
2.0 honey
2.0 spritz
not including the spritz, which I didn't keep an accurate count of, I made at least 577 cookies Saturday through Monday. the spritz added probably another 200+ to the count, but they're tiny, so each probably only counts as half a cookie.
not all of them went to other people, though. I made the cranberry apricot chews for David and me, though I also shared some with Mom. I made one entire batch of peanut butter cookies after all the boxes were packed, because we were all out and David needed some more. [the recipe I use only yields 28 cookies, compared to the oatmeal recipe that yields 50.] the extra half batch of snickerdoodles are for me for the same reason.
I tried a new spritz recipe to give some cookies to Angie on the van. she gives me many rides when I am carless, so I want to thank her. however, I didn't much care for the new spritz recipe, so I divided them up and gave them to the family, and made more using a recipe I like, to give to Angie. I don't do spritz every year, so I have to relearn how to use the cookie press effectively [mechanically, it's not hard, but there's a certain flair needed]. but as they're really tasty and don't really take that much more effort, I should probably make them more often.
8 boxes went into the mail yesterday morning. the only cookies not sent out is one box, for someone we didn't have a new address for, and Joe's because I didn't feel up to going over there to drop them off yesterday evening. seeing Joe means a lot of conversation, and I was tired, tired, tired.
the weekend cookie tally in batches:1.5 oatmeal date
4.0 peanut butter
2.0 molasses
2.0 chocolate chip
2.5 snickerdoodle
2.0 cranberry apricot chocolate chews
2.0 honey
2.0 spritz
not including the spritz, which I didn't keep an accurate count of, I made at least 577 cookies Saturday through Monday. the spritz added probably another 200+ to the count, but they're tiny, so each probably only counts as half a cookie.
not all of them went to other people, though. I made the cranberry apricot chews for David and me, though I also shared some with Mom. I made one entire batch of peanut butter cookies after all the boxes were packed, because we were all out and David needed some more. [the recipe I use only yields 28 cookies, compared to the oatmeal recipe that yields 50.] the extra half batch of snickerdoodles are for me for the same reason.
I tried a new spritz recipe to give some cookies to Angie on the van. she gives me many rides when I am carless, so I want to thank her. however, I didn't much care for the new spritz recipe, so I divided them up and gave them to the family, and made more using a recipe I like, to give to Angie. I don't do spritz every year, so I have to relearn how to use the cookie press effectively [mechanically, it's not hard, but there's a certain flair needed]. but as they're really tasty and don't really take that much more effort, I should probably make them more often.
8 boxes went into the mail yesterday morning. the only cookies not sent out is one box, for someone we didn't have a new address for, and Joe's because I didn't feel up to going over there to drop them off yesterday evening. seeing Joe means a lot of conversation, and I was tired, tired, tired.