This weekend I set out to bake 500 cookies. I always bake cookies around the holidays because I like to give them out as gifts and people seem to really like my cookies. Usually I bake around 300, but I had a lot more requests for them this year and planned to make more. About halfway through the bake-a-thon though, I realized I was going to have far more than 500 cookies when I was done.
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Cookies prepped for baking
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Cookies fresh out of the oven
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Peanut Butter Cookies
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Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Chocolate Chip with Pecan Cookies
7 hours later, there were 791 cookies. O_O
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In case you're wondering, this is what 791 cookies looks like.
It took 4-5 more hours to prepare all of them as gifts, with all the tissue paper, ribbons, tagging, and packaging. To say I was exhausted would be an understatement. I’m still tired.
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And you might think that I’d quit after that, but nope. I just had to make something else this year. So I made an old family recipe for Holiday Spice Cakes!
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I can’t wait until everyone’s received their goodies! :D
We have this running joke in my house around the holidays that I’m a Keebler Elf (partly because I’m so short, partly because of the cookie baking). I’m pretty sure I got the “Most Productive Keebler Elf of the Season” award this year.