Lindsay has always wanted to make Christmas cookies since we did one year at Fitzy's house. For some reason it just never worked out and Fitzy moved to Colorado in 2017. Lindsay got a hold of me one day and asked if I was interested in making cookies with her. I really didn't want to waste a whole Saturday so I asked her if she wanted to do it on a Friday after work instead. She said sure. We picked the Friday before Christmas.
She gets off work at 6 and I got off work at 4 so I told her that I would pick up some ingredients for the cookies I wanted to make, plus some extra sugar and flour since most cookies require those ingredients. I stopped by the cemetery to hang out with Grammie and visit until I ran out of daylight.
I then went to Walmart and grabbed cookie making supplies.
I asked Lindsay if we needed anything else and she asked if I could look for some molasses. Walmart had no molasses so I had to go to Albertson's, just down the street. I found some, grabbed a bag of popcorn and a drink. I didn't know what we were having for dinner when I got to her house. She told me that she sent Justin to the store after he got off to grab a few things for cookies as well. It sounded like we were going to make a ton of cookies.
She got off work and I headed over there. I brought the bags of supplies in and asked her what types of cookies we were going to make and showed her the ones I wanted to make. We started with the no bake cookies and made two batches of them. We didn't have wax paper so we had to wait until Justin came home with that, the other ingredients and pizza from Pizza Hut. We let the no bake's sit and harden while we ate pizza.
I started mixing the cookie dough for mint chip cookies. It was hard to find mint chips in the store but luckily I had some left over from a previous year. I might have to buy some Andes Mints and smash them with a rolling pin the next time I need some. We had two batches of cookies done and it was almost 9:30. We still had many more to do.
We cleaned the dishes as we went so it wouldn't be a huge chore at the end when we were tired...plus we needed the stand mixer a few times and some large bowls.
One batch of cookies, I think it was a version of the peanut butter balls, someone forgot to put the baking powder in (the leavener) and they turned out weird. They didn't taste bad but the texture was off. She ended up packaging up those and having me take them to her co-workers on Monday. She just said to get there early and leave them on the community table.
From 10 p.m. on we made peanut butter balls and messed up the chocolate and had to make another batch of chocolate, we made Milky Way cookies, candy cane cookies, molasses cookies, snickerdoodles, red velvet, sugar cookies and plain peanut butter cookies. We put them all out on the cooling table. I found out she was giving these out as gifts to her friends and family members and that's why we had to make so many. She even had little Christmas boxes to put them in. However, a few of the boxes weren't big enough for all the cookies so we had to improvise.
We made 10 or 11 different types of cookies and various batches of them. We put together 13 boxes of cookies, made tags for each of them and I took some cookies home with me.
I got all of my stuff packed up, put it in the Escape and headed home. I didn't get home until 3 a.m. I was so tired. I didn't realize this would be a cookie marathon.
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