I have to say this cookie exchange was quite the success!
We had 7 ladies, loads of yummy treats, played games and had a nice visit.
Over all I think we had 7 different types of cookies/treats!
Rocky Road
Candy Cane cookies
Snickersnaps or gingerdoodles
Pumpkin Rolls
Andes Chocolate cookies
Chocolate kiss cookies
&
Cookies balls (not sure what their actual name is)
Here Sara R. is reading our Twas the night before Christmas Madlib.
I thought I'd copy it for you to read. We were laughing pretty hard.
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Twas the Candy cane before Christmas, when all through the house not a Moose was stirring,
not even a mouse. The chairs were arm farting all snug in their beds,
while visions of Octopus danced in their heads.
Then out on the jungle there arose such a clatter I jumped form the Mantel to see what was the matter.
When what to my wondering arms should appear,
but a miniature wrapping paper and 12 tall reindeer!
With a purple old runner so slow and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around, down the chimney Sunny Bono crazed with a bound.
He spoke not a yarn burp, but when straight to his work, and filled up
all the houses then flew with a jerk,
and laying his toe aside his nose, and giving a node up the eve he rose.
And I heard him slapping ere he skipped out of sight,
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!
We played the Siamese Wrapping Paper Game. You play with a partner and each of you can only use one hand to wrap your gift. We gave ourselves 5 minutes.
Chelbe and Shannon were the first team to have their gift completely wrapped including their ribbon and gift tag.
Chelbe and Shannon were the first team to have their gift completely wrapped including their ribbon and gift tag.
We drew for the grand prize instead of voting on the cookies, everyone brought such yummy goodies it would have been hard to vote.
Grandma One the Grand Prize and then modeled it for us!
Everyone left with lots of yummy goodies and quite a variety to bring home to their families!
Would love to do this again next year!
Here is the link to the cookies I made and I will add the other recipes when I get them.
Chelbe's Recipe for Candy Cane Cookies
Bake at 375 degrees
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
1 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Cream shortening together with the powdered sugar and then add egg, vanilla and almond extract.
To creamed mixture add 2 1/2 cup flour and 1 teaspoon salt.
Divide dough in half. Blend one half with red food coloring.
Make dough into rolled strips (about 5") and twist together one white and red one. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Shape into candy canes. Bake 9 min. or until lightly browned. You may sprinkle a mixture of peppermint (crushed) and sugar while still warm if you'd like.
The recipe Dawn used for the Andes Mint Cookies
Also
We tried a recipe for Pumpkin Spiced Latte in the crock pot. I ended up using vanilla almond milk and wished that I would have just used regular milk but it still was ok.
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