Round 2

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

Chocolate Crinkle Type Cookies, from the Taste of Home Best Loved cookie and Bars book

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip and Reese Cup Cookies,

Taste of Home Best Loved cookie and Bars book 

So after Round 2, this is what the table looked like...

Round 1 Complete

So this is what the first round looked like after it was baked and stored away.

I made 3 cookie trays (this round), one for Mom's one for Hubby's work and one was for an order.

New Cookies



We call these Josh Cookies, bc my BFF's hubby makes them, but he got the recipe from
America's Test Kitchens Cookbook

 And can I just say that the big cookie was a request and that the person who requested them only ate TWO!! =P

Peanut Butter Suprise Cookies

Peanut Butter Suprise Cookies
From the Taste of Home Best Loved Cookies and Bars Magazine
I cooked them too long, so the suprise was gone from them...

Cinnamon Cookies from Taste of Home, Best Loved Cookies and Bars

Chocolate Covered Oreos

Christmas Cats

Hahaha I thought I would take a cookie break to show you my Christmas Cats:

Mini

Gracie

Jasper/Lucky/Chet





Spaz

Round 1

Russian Tea Cake Cookies

Andes Mint Cookies

Lemon Cream Cheese Spritz

In this pic you can also see the PB Blossoms and the Italian Christmas Cookies (pre-dipped)

So this is what Round 1 of cookie making looked like at my house.

Cookie Tray Orders

I had 3 cookie tray orders, plus I wanted to make a tray for Mom's house. Per request the tray was to have Peanut Butter Blossoms, Spritz cookies and Sugar Cookies.



The decorated spritz are below The recipe I used is from the Wilton Cookie Exchange book, toward the back.

                                                                        Sugar Cookies

Louise's two cookies for her grandsons

Mom loves flip flops...my assistant calls the cookie cutter a potato...

I tried to make 2-3 of the same cookie, since I was doing multiple trays.

The Decorated Spritz:

My Normal Cookies

In addition to new cookies a made some old favorites too!

Russian Tea Cake Cookies:

and Peanut Butter Blossoms: (the only difference between my recipe and the one I linked to is, I use shortening and the recipe online calls for butter)

Note to self: DOUBLE the recipes for both of these next year! I ran out way too quick!

I forgot to take pics of the Italian Christmas Cookies I made...
Note to Self: Do NOT double the Italian Christmas Cookie Recipe! It made way too many when I doubled it!!

Christmas Cookies!

Many of these next posts will be about all of the cookies I made for Christmas, with the grand total at the end...I tried quite a few new recipes this year, some were hits...others not so much.

So before the big cookie making Extravaganza, we made some potato soup to eat! YUM! If you click on the words potato soup, it will take you to the recipe I use, but I don't use the onion or celery and I put in bacon and sometimes ham.

That was the step where you add the potatoes.

I saw these at Walmart and had to have them:

LOVE Andes Mints! These are Andes Mint Baking Chips and I have to buy more before the season ends, because I only see them around Christmas time.
**Let me tell you, I have a Chocolate Chip monster that visited my house to try and hide these from me...good thing I bought and extra bag!!

The cookies were tasty too! I had some positive feed back about them. I used the recipe on the back of the bag, but click here for a link that has the recipe.

I used my small ice cream scoop to get perfectly round cookies.

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!