RIP: She Baked Good Cookies

My holiday baking for this year is almost done. Wow, this is the third year I’m reporting on baking on this blog. And before this blog there was another blog that lasted for over a year (it’s taken down now).  It chronicled library school and a cross-country trip. I like keeping a blog. I fancy myself a bit of a word teaser and this gives me a good outlet for that.

Holiday of Baking 2007

Holiday of Baking 2008

This Year:

• Soft Peanut Butter cookies (3 batches). Last month Scott asked for soft peanut butter cookies. I’m all, “That’s impossible. Peanut Butter cookies are hard and they break all over the place when you try to eat them.” Then I went online and looked up “soft peanut butter cookies.” And found them. Wow. They are SO GOOD.
• Oatmeal No-bakes (2 batches). Again, my own recipe. Yet improved from last year.
• Magic bars with toffee chips (2 9 X 13 pans)
• Chocolate-dipped macaroons. This year I realized that my chocolate-dipped macaroons are fancy Mounds bars. This totally bummed me out. I’ve been feeling a little blue but this ripped up my little universe: that MY “World Famous Chocolate Dipped Macaroons” were just inflated Mounds bars and if I put an almond in the middle they’d be Almond Joy Bars. But onward.
• Chocolate dipped Oreos. I’ve done two packages of cookies plus one bag of the minis for kids. I have one bag left to go and then those are done. I bought dark chocolate, white chocolate and then white chocolate dyed pink and some dyed purple. Gotta get those colors out and do some serious damage to the traditional concept of chocolate dipped Oreos. Breaking open the galaxy I am. Oh sweet Power.
• Brownies (double batch). I didn’t put quite enough chocolate chips in. They’re good but they’re not Classic.
• Tingalings
• Swedish wedding cookies. This year I tried to finally make enough and I made too much.
• Chocolate chip cookies. Lots and lots and lots and lots of chocolate chip cookies.

Yet to go I have one 9X13 of lemon bars and one more bag of Oreos. The Oreos go into treat bags and the cookies into tins. I’ve got 14 tins done and so far 11 treat bags.  I have another 8-10 tins ready to go on the counter. I’ll feed 15 people with the treat bags I have so far and then the tins, and then I take cookies to work (each person in my department gets a treat bag and then I bring a platter to the holiday party), and then to Christmas and Christmas eve dinners.