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December 13, 2005
Done
The Cookie Saga should end today sometime between 11:30am and 1:30pm. That's when the USPS is scheduled to come pick up my 11 or 12 cubes of cookieness. If I'd done the labels earlier than 2am PST, I could have had them come out today for free, but it's definitely worth $12.50 to have them come out and grab the packages when I'm expecting them.
So, I ended up not rolling out gingerbread. I really don't have the space in this kitchen that I had in Ashburn, so rolling out, baking, cooling and decorating cookies is just impractical. I ended up rolling the gingerbread dough into balls, rolling the balls in white coarse sugar, and then stamping them down with a spice jar. The coarse sugar added some visual interest and a whole lot of crunch. Next year I'm doubling or tripling the ginger -- they were just too mild for me.
The sugar cookies did not work at all. I think I must have used the other recipe in the cookie cookbook, because these came out absolutely awful. Too crumbly to roll out, too crumbly to roll into balls to do thumb print cookies. Ugh. All in all the boxes were small, but still bountiful I think. Everyone got some scotcheroos, some peanut blossoms and some gingerbread cookies. Most people got some boozy balls too, though I think those are probably pretty crappy, heh.
Posted by jodikins at December 13, 2005 8:35 AM