or at least doing all the prep work for my upcoming cookie marathon!
Each year I bake a dozen different cookies and make up cookie boxes and trays for friends and neighbors.
First I decide on what cookies to make and gather the recipes.
Some cookies I make every years - Mint Snowtop, Christmas Biscotti, Coconut Biscotti and Molasses cookies. Some every few years - Peanut blossoms, Almond Jam Slices, Toffee cookies, and Ellie's Butterscotch Cookies. Then I always try a few new ones - Gingerbread biscotti, Pecan Cresents, Peppermint Candy sugar cookies.
Then I inventory the baking supply cabinet...I buy new baking powder and baking soda each year and also check the dates on all the spices.
Then I gather together the containers. I usually buy the containers at the after Christmas sales but I also use some non-traditional containers like fun tea-cups or bowls that I find during the year.
Now how does this go with quilting you may wonder? Well, I have stitching on Wednesday - will bring a tray of cookies. I have bee on Thursday - will bring a cranberry pecan cake. And on Friday I have a holiday get together with my Woolie-Woolie group and will bring home-made Stollen and some cookies.
10 comments:
No wonder that you are so popular with all your quilter friends! It sounds delicious.
Oh, everything looks Scrumptious! Your biscotti looks Divine..
What a lot of work you put in to make yummy treats for friends. They all look scrumptious.
When I went to our quilt group at church, every Christmas we'd bring one type of cookie and swap around in addition to filling tins for the janitors. I made, rather than a cookie, the pretzels topped with rolo's and a pecan (always a hit). So instead of just one, I'd do like 3 pretzels as opposed to one cookie (since they WERE very easy). Yours sounds like a ton of work :-( But YUMMY!!
WOW! There are some special people in your life to receive a homemade tin of cookies! I also purchase the containers after Christmas--great sales
Cookies and quilting always go together!!!!
It all sounds yummy!
Oh, I am doing the same thing. I make several different cookies three days before Christmas and make up trays for neighbors and friends. I look forward to this cookie extravaganza every year. I always pray that our oven holds out one more year! One of my favorites are Peanut Blossoms which I make as my last cookie since I do not have enough containers to store them in until I make up the trays and delete the mounds of cookies I have already made. My recipe makes 7 dozen. I do not like to stack them since they have Hersey Kisses on top. I do not want to squash those delicious kisses!
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Happy New Year!! Hope you are well - we worry about you when you don't post. Take care!!
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