Day 3 of Cookie Weekend is in the books. I’ve got enough energy to type, and that’s about it right now. We made 14 varieties of cookies and candies, and were finished with all but the final piece by this morning – the white chocolate peppermint snowflakes to go on the top of the boxes. That means the order of the day is packaging – and Henry Ford ain’t got nothin’ on the assembly-line efficiency…
We’re back for another day of Cookie Weekend, and I awoke to face this: This is what’s left of the butter after Day 1. Yep – that’s what’s left. And we went through it all today. But we started the day off right, with an enormous keg o’ coffee and music from The Folkers – Another Folkin’ Christmas. 🙂
Three women. Three days. Twenty varieties. Welcome to the epic-ness that is Cookie Weekend. Our Cookie Weekend tradition has been going on for at least 15 years, and consists of me, my mom, and my mom’s younger sister taking at least three days to create multiple varieties of cookies and candies. And since most people don’t understand its epic-ness, I thought it was the perfect time to document it on this here corner of the…