OceanicThai

Wednesday was the cookie marathon, and thankfully I had some help. Ning , Khrua , Kory & Trevor came to help; so we all donned aprons & baked, mixed, spooned, iced & sampled. We made 2 double batches of Sour-Cream Lemon Zest cookies & gingerbread cut them into Christmas trees, angels, gingerbread men, reindeer, stars, and then decorated them with 5 different colors of frosting Kory mixed up & colored. We made 2 big pans of Rice Krispy Scotcharoos with P.B., and drizzled melted chocolate on top. Total, we baked around, I don't know, 300 cookies & bars. My arms ached, so did my legs, and when I stuck my tongue out, I happened to taste my face and it tasted like sugar, powdered sugar. I found cookie dough in my hair. Khrua fell asleep on the floor after lunch. Ning was my tireless cookie warrior, (and my tireless cookie taster.) I didn't begrudge her a single bite, she worked really hard. Tomorrow starts the party marathon. Our 1st one is at 5...

9 cups of flour, 8 eggs, 2 bags of chocolate chips, 2 Tablespoons of vanilla, 3 cups of butter, unmentionable amounts of sugar, among other ingredients, made up my first giant batch of cookies yesterday. Totalling 200 chocolate chip cookies when baked, I bagged my dough and slid it into the freezer. Today I made a double recipe of chewy molasses cookies; more butter, flour, eggs, freshly ground cinnamon & cloves, ginger, soda, and of course molasses. That was a 72 cookie batch. 272 minus a few (I had to bake some for my family or I'd be charged with cruel & unusual punishment.) 250 down, around 300 to go...