To finish up the year, I decided to bake cookies. A LOT of cookies. My estimate is about 400 - give or take a few dozen :P.
Here's the line up:
Mini Gingerbread Men and Women Cookies:
These turned out fabulously. It was my first time making gingerbread cookies. I am definitely making these again next season...or maybe even before then ;). I didn't realize that fresh baked gingerbread could be this yummy. Decorating them was A LOT of work but it was super fun and the results makes me smile each time I look at the pictures.
How could you resist these little faces :).
White Chocolate Chip, Cranberry, Macadamia Nut Cookies
Yep - I think the name of these cookies give away half the ingredient list :P. These are a favorite in our household and red cranberries look awesome this time of year.
Mexican Wedding Cakes
These little snowball looking treats are super easy to make but makes a big impact. My husbands NEW favorite!
Toffee!
An extra special treat - Toffee :). Love the extra crunch and cookie break from these toffees.
Not pictured are Sugar Cookies decorated with Christmas Sprinkles - guess I was about ready to pass out by the time I got around to making Sugar Cookies :P.
I started baking around 8:30am and didn't stop until 3pm. It was a constant cycle of mixing, scooping, cookie cutting, oven, cooking rack and finding a container big enough to hold the cookies until they were ready to be packaged.
When it did come time to package up the tins I got a little nervous - did I have enough cookies? Will they taste good? Did I have enough tins? Well 25 tins and hundreds of cookies later I was finally DONE. Everything turned out beautifully and my kitchen was not COMPLETELY destroyed :P.
Happy Be-Lated Christmas everyone!
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