Here’s the plan –

• Contact a good number of your baking friends, invite them to spend a day of cookie baking at your house and ask them to kick in $15.00 to cover supplies.
• Do all the shopping to make about 30 batches of cookies.

• Start making the cookie dough the night before –

(Having two borrowed mixers along with friends measuring out dry ingredients really helped that process!)

• Find as many flat surfaces as you can for work surfaces and storage surfaces.

• Come Saturday morning – let the baking begin!

Loved that we had some little helpers join the party!

Almond Shortbread Thumbprint cookies – Yum!

Rolling and dipping the (endless) gingersnaps – Oh, My!

Waiting for a turn in one of the two ovens, hanging out with the gingersnaps.

Frosting the White Chocolate Cranberry Bliss cookies and getting the very last of the cookies onto the cookie sheets.

• Don’t forget to set up a “Real Food” station for when the urge for something without sugar kicks in!

• Be prepared for even the best organization to eventually dissolve into cookie chaos!
• But also be ready for some Bee-U-Ti-Ful end results!

• At the end of the day, send everyone home with about 8 dozen assorted oh-so-yummy Christmas Cookies.
• Load the dishwasher and get the next batch ready to load.
• Collapse on the sofa and remember that the rest of the mess will still be there when you wake up!

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