Cookie Marathon Madness 2011

I just realized I never published this. Oops! For those of you that are new, a few weeks before Christmas every year I host a huge cookie baking marathon with friends and family. When I say huge, I'm not exaggerating. This year we made 16 varieties of cookies and assembled 46 tins of cookies with an extra paper grocery bag filled with more cookies that we donated locally. It was intense.

Here are a few pics from instagram of the event:

16 lbs of butter.

A small sample of our ingredients. My grocery list read more like a supply list for traveling the oregon trail than anything else. On the plus side no one died of dysentery or snake bites. Yeah!

Homemade oreos with mint icing.

Gingerbread snowmen.

Assembled tin. Unicorns as promised.

Our cookie selection this year included:

1. War ration cookies filled with cherries (Grandma recipe)
2. Almond Cut Out Sugar Cookies
3. Mint Oreos
4. White chocolate clusters
5. Lime Shortbread
6. Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Bark
7. Bailey's Fudge
8. Cranberry Blondies
9. Peanut butter Blossoms
10. Citrus Oatmeal
11. Macaroons
12. Cinnamon Crisps
13. Vegan Red Velvet Beet Cookies
14. Gingerbread Snowmen
15. Chocolate Espresso Chip Cookies
16. Spicy Chex Mix - Recipe Here.

We were also going to attempt some honeycomb candy, but realized we lacked a candy thermometer so we dropped it. This year we were a little better organized and prepped a lot of the dough in advance, but it was still a long process. After a solid two days of baking and 6 hrs of icing I was happy to be finished, and thankful for all of the amazing people that took part!