Category: Cookies

• 2019 Theme and Cookie Decoder

  

  If you’ve been reading a long, you know by now that 2019 will be my last year doing the quantity of cookies I’ve been doing.  Over the years, the project has morphed into something bigger and better each year.  I’ve been doing about 100 – 125 boxes a year.  That’s a lot of freaking cookies. …

  JC

  November 12, 2022

  Christmas, Cookies

• Christmas Cookies – Day 6

  

  The making is finally over. Finally. All that’s left to do is box them up. I started making boxes tonight, got about 11 done then decided my time was better spent cleaning up and clearing space on the tables and putting baking supplies away. I packed up all my cutters, colors, glitters and dusts and…

  JC

  December 17, 2019

  Christmas, Cookies

• Christmas Cookies – 2018 Theme

  The cookies are baked, the boxes boxed, some are delivered, others in the mail, going to far off places to be devoured, sentenced to a glittery, crunchy, sugary sweet death… 2018 Cookie season is coming to a close. I have a confession.  I’m not sure how many more cookie madness years I’ve got in me. …

  JC

  December 21, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies

• Christmas Cookies – The Aftermath

  Delivery is WELL underway.  Boxes were taken to work and handed out, and the first wave of shipping happened today.  All I gotta say is, Potsie is CLUTCH. I can always count on my family to help me, that’s a given, but even with that, there are limits on what I would actually ask someone…

  JC

  December 19, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies, Potsie

• Christmas Cookies – Day 6

  Start Time: 10:50 am Stop Time: 11:45 pm Goal: 22 types of cookies, packaged, wrapped & read to deliver on Tuesday 12/18 Baked:  Extreme Brownie (8x), Chinese Almond (6x) Mission accomplished. Oh man, it was hard today.  But I learned a lot.  I waffled on my decision to eliminate the Extreme Brownie, then went for it.  3 POUNDS OF CHOCOLATE,…

  JC

  December 18, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies

• Christmas Cookies – Day 5

  Start Time: 11:45 am Stop Time: 2:30 am Goal: 22 types of cookies, packaged, wrapped & read to deliver on Tuesday 12/18 Baked:  Paris Breakfast Shortbread(4x), Cranberry Shortbread (4x), Vanilla Bean Shortbread (4x), Lemon Sugar Rounds (6x), Pecan Sandies (4x), Gingersnaps (4), Oatmeal Raisin (6), Snickerdoodles (5x), Peanut Butter toffee pretzel (3) 9 types of cookies got baked today. NINE.…

  JC

  December 16, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies, MOTU, The Husband

• Christmas Cookies – Day 4

  Start Time: 11:15 am Stop Time: 6:05 am Goal: 22 types of cookies, packaged, wrapped & read to deliver on Tuesday 12/18 Baked:  Chocolate Chip (8x) Mixed: Paris Breakfast Shortbread(4x), Cranberry Shortbread (4x), Vanilla Bean Shortbread (4x), Lemon Sugar Rounds (6x), Pecan Sandies (4x) OMG OMG OMG, I’m behind.  No, I’m ahead. No, I think I’m behind.  Maybe I’m not.…

  JC

  December 15, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies, McIrish, MOTU, Potsie, The Husband

• Christmas Cookies – Day 3

  Start Time: 11:45 am Stop Time: 2:40 am Goal: 22 types of cookies, packaged, wrapped & read to deliver on Tuesday 12/18 Baked:  Peanut Butter (4x) Mixed: Paris Breakfast Shortbread(4x), Cranberry Shortbread (4x), Vanilla Bean Shortbread (4x), Lemon Sugar Rounds (6x), Pecan Sandies (4x) No-bake days stress me out.  I lose track of time and literally don’t know what happened to…

  JC

  December 14, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies, The Husband

• Christmas Cookies – Day 2

  Start Time: 11:15 am Stop Time: 4:38 am Goal: 22 types of cookies, packaged, wrapped & read to deliver on Tuesday 12/18 Baked:  Mint Chip (4x), Cinnamon Imperial Cutouts (4x), Coffee Sugar (4x), Brown Sugar Spice (3) Mixed: Paris Breakfast Shortbread(4x), Cranberry Shortbread (4x), Vanilla Bean Shortbread (4x), Lemon Sugar Rounds (6x), Pecan Sandies (4x) Day 2 was a…

  JC

  December 13, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies

• Christmas Cookies – Day 1

  Start Time: 10 am Stop Time: 11:32 pm Goal: 22 types of cookies, packaged, wrapped & ready to deliver on Tuesday 12/18 Completed:  Vanilla Sugar (7x), Chocolate Feathers (4x), Coconut Cutouts (4x), Red/Yellow Swirl (4x) Mixed: Mint Chip (4x), Cinnamon Imperial Cutouts (4x), Coffee Sugar (4x) What a great day 1! Man, getting a jump start on the chocolate sugar last night…

  JC

  December 13, 2018

  Christmas, Cookies