As I posted about last year, around the holidays I always have a little cookie exchange with some lovely ladies. We all bake about five dozen cookies, bring them to the party, eat them, take some home, and donate the rest to a food pantry. It’s a fun little holiday tradition.
Of course, this year, I’m posting super late about this, but that seems to have been my trend during the latter half of 2010– overwhelming time commitments, and RD suffers. But anyhoo, here’s the deets.
It’s often a small affair, since during the holidays many people have too many obligations. This year we had nine different kinds of cookies, all fantastically delicious.
My contribution was Hot Chocolate Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies. Chocolate, anyone? They were fantastic. I found them on Savory Sweet Life here.
We had some traditional cookies, like these Peanut Blossoms:
Or these Molasses Spice Cookies:
And new takes on old classics, like these Chocolate Hazelnut Crinkles, made by none other than Foodism Mom:
Other contributions:
from top left: Crunchy Chocolate Treats, Mexican Sugar Cookies, Oatmeal Cookies, and Grasshopper Squares (brownie with mint and chocolate ganache)
It was a lovely time, and we made quite a few bags of cookies to take to the food pantry. The people there are always so grateful, since as a food pantry they don’t really have anything for the kids who come by with their parents. With individual bags of three cookies each, they had something nice to give out to the kids during the holiday.
I pulled out an old Christmas tablecloth that my mom made years ago. I’d never used it, and when I pulled it out I was completely amazed at how… amazing it is. She embroidered this whole deal, with matching napkins to boot.
This photo doesn’t do the whole thing justice; it’s actually an enormous tablecloth with snowflakes and trees embroidered around the edges, and these two angels in the middle with snowflakes around them. Some of the embroidery has sequins and rhinestones embedded into it.
Details:
It’s super awesome, right? The napkins are just as cool.
I also like to give a little party favor. This year it was little tea cups filled with hot chocolate mix, tea bags, chocolates, a cookie cutter and a little cute whisk.
I hope you had a sweet holiday. Did you have any excellent holiday cookies?
that tablecloth is a real treasure. As for cookies, my friend makes the most amazing iced sugar cookies–the colors are so vibrant and the detail is so good you hate to eat them. Of course I overcame that and had 3. Ahem.
That tablecloth is AMAZING! I see that your craft talents are genetic.
The cookie exchange was a definite highlight of my Holidays. Thank you for including me on such a wonderful tradition!
xoxo