Unless those goals are fitting this cookie in my mouth-- then I am CRUSHING IT.
1. It started with gingerbread teddy bears and snow men. I DEMOLISHED THEM
2. Then I moved on to
scotcheroos.3. THEN the kids were like WHEN ARE WE DOING OUR FAMILY GINGERBREAD HOUSE COMP? And I was like ugh we already ate TWO batches of ginger things and they were like IT IS A TRADITION. Sooooooo.
4. AND THEN Cooper was like oh hey mom my food science unit presentation is tomorrow and I need 100 of the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies my group and I designed.
WHILE ALSO THE SAME DAY Minnie found an American Girl baking book at the library and insisted on mini-snickerdoodles for her dolls.
5. Finally, I was like you know what? I am going to just go ahead and make my
cut out cookie dough and freeze half but also BAKE HALF ALL BY MY FREAKING SELF.
So I did, and it was magical.
(I made these too because
SUZANNE has inspired me to make a cookie board-- I will show you when I have made more PB blossoms and some fudge)
Frosty has milk chocolate chip cookies, which I also made, but not for any reason just because we were out of cookies.
And let us not forget the mini choc chippers I did over the weekend for Minnie's playdate.
TL; DR: MY JEANS ARE TIGHT
Whoa mama that is a lot of cookies! Since my kids are no longer in school and I no longer teach yoga, my cookie game has been a lot tighter this year. I've made only gingersnaps, gingerbread men, and today sugar cookie cutouts. Also chocolate bark, does that count, I don't know.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a lot of baking!!! Everything looks delicious! We'll be making sugar cookies tomorrow for our cookie decorating party tomorrow. But they will be boring circles because I need to experiment with a GF recipe that can be rolled out so I am sticking with a recipe I know will work. And the kids prob won't care that they are circles. We'll just say they are all ornaments. Shrugs shoulders.
ReplyDeleteOkay I am both hungry and exhausted. I would absolutely HATE to do that much baking. I'm so glad my kids don't know what goes on at your house - they would suddenly think my Christmas baking is EXTREMELY subpar <3
ReplyDeleteI kind of feel like this qualifies as an endurance activity?! So many types of cookies AND gingerbread houses? It’s like a true holiday week.
ReplyDeleteYou are a cookie making machine over there. How did you not run out of flour and eggs and energy? Do tell. I'm getting caught up on blogs this afternoon and then . . . I'm thinking we might bake Christmas sugar cookies and decorate the tree. Yep, our tree is still naked. No lights no nothing. I've not had time, but since my kid with test anxiety and the all-night phone calls and hotel overnights is in the rearview mirror, I'm ready to let the Christmas festivities get going.
ReplyDeleteLOL = Yeah mom, I need 100 cookies tomorrow. Classic.
ReplyDeleteI made fudge and some raspberry streusel bars. The fudge because I was meeting my friend for dinner, and her husband demands fudge so his wife can come out to play. (Not really, just sounds funny.) The streusel bars (I can't spell streusel) are for Suzanne's cookie swap, and my neighbors say, "Thanks Suzanne!"