I went to work in the morning for my last day in the office until Jan 12 (WHOOT WHOOT and a little whoot whoot!) and then headed to my mom's house for the Cookie Baking extravaganza. And oh what an extravaganza it was.
Moira in the midst of prepping her first set of cookies.
Me finishing my first set of cookies: Poor Man's Turtles
While Moira and I were the main Bakers of the day our mom did a bang up job as our Scullery Maid (aka the Prep Ingredients and clean dishes queen). The Scullery Maid was definitely key to us successfully making over 7 different types of cookies.
We had at least two types of cookies and three types of activities going on the kitchen at all times for about 6 hours straight.
At the end of the Baking-a-thon we had quite a spread to show off. We made:
Poor Man's Turtles
Cinnamon Toast Nuts
Chocolate dipped pretzels
Anise Flavored Italian Wedding Cookies
Buckeyes
Peppermint Bark
Fudge (using my ex-bosses recipe)
Sugar Cookies (from scratch)
Double Chocolate Mint Cookies (from scratch - tasted great but looked like flattened pooh)
The three happy yet exhausted bakers and the Quality Controller (my dad).
I had such a great time with my family and hope to continue with the cookie tradition next year (and hope my other sister, Sheona, can join us as well).
Happy Holidays!
4 comments:
Love the post, but those aprons are so not flattering on us! :)
Love the goodies! Thanks for sharing some with the 'other' part of Hillie's family. Looks like fun times. :)
And I have Farkle too...it is great fun!
How did the fudge turn out? I finished the last batch yesterday (45 lbs!!!)
The fudge turned out great! Thanks for the recipe. Happy Holidays
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