cookies, cookies, and more cookies!
I'm going to catch up on the last couple of weeks in a few posts, so bare with me. :)
Joe and I decided (okay, I decided and Joe - being the best husband ever - helped out a ton!) to give baked goods to some of our local friends. We have so many people we wanted to share these with that we couldn't give some to everyone, and so we ended up only taking them to people we've been in small groups with at church, our elders at church, and my boss at work. It really stunk limiting it like that because there are some people we really care for (and even spend more time with than the people we took some to) that got left off. So the small group rule was the only way we could keep the numbers down. If you're reading this and didn't get any cookies, please know that we really do care about you, and it was really frustrating for us! Just think that we were trying to help you stay skinny this holiday season.
Anyway... we baked a TON! And I really mean WE! I might have done a tiny bit more baking than Joe, but only because he ran to the store (3 times, I think) to get things I forgot. I took a couple of pictures part way through, but we got so busy that I forgot to take a final picture.
This picture was of the ornament sugar cookies - they were dipped in icing. Joe did almost all the decorating on these, and I'm so sad I don't have a picture. There were 62 at the end! With the exception of one that had what looked like an angry face on it, they looked fantastic, and Joe was such a good sport to decorate with what I gave him. (We won't talk about the "red" icing that turned out brown.)
These are in the picture above:
Andes Mint chocolate cookies
snickerdoodles
ornament sugar cookies
Here's the rest of what we made:
blue or green butter cookies
peppermint meringues (with red stripes)
chocolate fudge
peanut butter fudge (which Joe called pb sludge since we didn't let it get hot enough to get hard)
It took a really long time - all our free time on three days! I didn't really take in account how long it would take to wrap the cookies, and the baking got split up some. It was crazy to look at all our piles of sweets afterwards. I think the best part is that Joe helped out so much, even though he doesn't like baking and especially doesn't like cleaning up afterwards. :)
Joe and I decided (okay, I decided and Joe - being the best husband ever - helped out a ton!) to give baked goods to some of our local friends. We have so many people we wanted to share these with that we couldn't give some to everyone, and so we ended up only taking them to people we've been in small groups with at church, our elders at church, and my boss at work. It really stunk limiting it like that because there are some people we really care for (and even spend more time with than the people we took some to) that got left off. So the small group rule was the only way we could keep the numbers down. If you're reading this and didn't get any cookies, please know that we really do care about you, and it was really frustrating for us! Just think that we were trying to help you stay skinny this holiday season.
Anyway... we baked a TON! And I really mean WE! I might have done a tiny bit more baking than Joe, but only because he ran to the store (3 times, I think) to get things I forgot. I took a couple of pictures part way through, but we got so busy that I forgot to take a final picture.
This picture was of the ornament sugar cookies - they were dipped in icing. Joe did almost all the decorating on these, and I'm so sad I don't have a picture. There were 62 at the end! With the exception of one that had what looked like an angry face on it, they looked fantastic, and Joe was such a good sport to decorate with what I gave him. (We won't talk about the "red" icing that turned out brown.)
These are in the picture above:Andes Mint chocolate cookies
snickerdoodles
ornament sugar cookies
Here's the rest of what we made:
blue or green butter cookies
peppermint meringues (with red stripes)
chocolate fudge
peanut butter fudge (which Joe called pb sludge since we didn't let it get hot enough to get hard)
It took a really long time - all our free time on three days! I didn't really take in account how long it would take to wrap the cookies, and the baking got split up some. It was crazy to look at all our piles of sweets afterwards. I think the best part is that Joe helped out so much, even though he doesn't like baking and especially doesn't like cleaning up afterwards. :)
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