Christmas Cookies

Last year my friend and I decided to make cookies for our daughters teachers and principals. We had a marathon baking day. We made cookies for EVERYONE! It was exhausting. My friend, C, is not a baker and she vowed to never do that again. Well to my surprise a few weeks ago she said, "Hey! Do you want to make cookies again?" I laughed and said yes but I thought you didn't. So we made cookies.

This year we got smart and decided not to try to do it all in one day. The fact that we did not have an open weekend helped too. Anyways, we also decided to bake the bare minimum...only teachers and co-workers no principals, support staff and activity teachers. Between us both, we went from about 25 tins to 10 tins. On top of the tins we also made bags for the students in each classroom. We decided to make five different cookies: Christmas tree (almond flavored sugar cookie), chocolate chip, snicker doodle, sugar and peanut butter kisses. We also make two cupcake platters one for our teachers/co-workers and one for the daycare. The first night we went shopping and made the rice crispies and pretzel sticks for the kid's bags. The next night we made the doughs and baked two of the cookies. We did the sugar cookies first so the girls could paint the icing on them. The actually used paint brushes and runny frosting which worked out wonderfully. The next night we finished the rest of the cookies and the cupcakes. We baked about 300 cookies in two night! Needless to say we were exhausted by the end of the week. We did much better this year although it was a long week for both us and the girls....especially baby C. She was so patient with us not paying attention to her and the big girls did an excellent job being "big sisters"!

The platter for teachers/co-workers

The platter for the daycare