Just a tip. When you’re baking Christmas cookies with 16 people in your kitchen it’s best not to do math in your head! I meant to double my recipe for candy cane cookies. Instead, I quadrupled the amount of crisco and only doubled the amount of everything else. When it was all mixed, it was good, but didn’t taste right… it was “fluffy”. Then I had to wrack my brain to figure out what I had done wrong. I had lots of help trying to fix it… “helping” me count the cups of flour and other helpful tips. But we figured it out and corrected it. Only by then, everyone was over cookie making so we had to finish the candy cane cookies later. It was fun having everyone over. And I never knew how helpful it would be to have so many hands to help clean up afterwards. Usually it’s just me.
Here are the highlights:
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| Jay helping Griffin sprinkle sugar onto cookie |
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| The Boyz & big Boyz at work |
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| It takes a lot of chefs in this kitchen! |
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| Alan helping Griffin |
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| Jay hard at work |
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| Carter & Kiefer |
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| Griffin ate everything he made |
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| Isn’t that why we’re doing all this? YUM! |
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| Alan thought Griffin had the right idea |
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| This is pretty much how it went all morning! |
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| Make one, eat one |
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| Finger licking good! |
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| We even got Leah to smile! |
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| Alexa had an easier time following her recipe than I did |
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| The mess |
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| The final product |
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| Jim helping reduce the mess |
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| We kept making a bigger mess |
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| Lots of hands to help hold babies! |
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| Noah & Griffin testing the final product |
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| Griffin enjoyed the bowl of sugar we dipped the peanut butter cookies in…he was completely sugar coated in the end! |
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| See… couldn’t keep him out of the bowl! |
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| Erika & Noah |
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| The work crew |
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| The clean up crew hard at work! 🙂 |
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| Fletcher enjoyed the multi-tasking |
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| Noah enjoyed the fruits of his labor |
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| Hannah working hard |
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| Jay helping Hannah |
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| Noah found a few other things to do |
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| The three little piggy banks ate ALL these cookies! Or something like that… |
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| To go boxes of cookies |
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| After a sugar filled breakfast we fed the younger set some lunch |
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| Say “Sugar!” |
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| Lunchtime! |
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| Fletcher bouncing himself in his bouncy seat |
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| Candy cane cookie assembly on Sunday |
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| Works of art |
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| working hard |
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| Griffin enjoying his breakfast |
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| Fletcher is always right in the mix |
