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    Cousins' Christmas Cookie Bake

    November 25, 2018 by Anna Leave a Comment

    Christmas is probably my favorite time of year. I love having an excuse to decorate with bright colors and glitter and shiny things and I also love having an excuse to bake and bake and bake...okay, and eat, too!

    Many years ago my sisters, mom and I started an annual cookie bake. Every year we set aside a day to gather in one of our kitchens and bake cookies. The schedule is fairly flexible because most cookies can be frozen for up to 2 months. And it's so nice to have an assortment of home baked goodies around the holidays!

    Now that our kids are all out of college, some with littles of their own, we call it the Cousins' Christmas Cookie Bake. And we had so much fun this year!

    Christmas Cookie Bake 2 yr old

    We started at 10 am on a recent Saturday... Ladies, start your engines! ...Er, your mixers!

    Christmas Cookie Bake 3 KitchenAid Mixers

    That's right, we each bring our mixers, cookie sheets, favorite spatulas, extra measuring cups...and ingredients; so one person isn't bearing the brunt of the cost.

    Alex made some thumbprint cookies...

    Christmas Cookie Bake Alex Dough

    and she helped one of the littles make gingerbread cookies.

    Christmas Cookie Bake Gingerbread

    This little had quite the day; she had a morning soccer game where she didn't allow one goal to score while she was goalie for ¾ of the game, then she came home and proceeded to master the art of cookie baking and decorating! Quite the all around child! (I promise she washed her hands after playing soccer!)

    Her creations...

    Christmas Cookie Bake ems decorated cookies

    And this little 2 year-old cutie learned how to roll cookies in powdered sugar...Gr8 job little guy! (He got less powdered sugar on himself than I usually get on myself!

    Christmas Cookie Bake O Rolling Sugar

    All in all it was a Gr8 Day; we made 14 different kinds of cookies in 7 hours! And everyone had a Gr8 time. There are few family favorites that are always on the agenda, like Snickerdoodles, and then we pretty much make whatever strikes our fancy.

    Tori had a helper with the pignoli cookies.

    Christmas Cookie Bake Tori Pignolis

    Christmas Cookie Bake waffle meltaways

    So plan a day, invite your family or friends, and get baking!

    Make a new tradition! Or should that be, "Bake" a new tradition?

    Christmas Cookie Bake sugar cookies

    Christmas Cookie Bake peppermint-mandm-pignolis

    If you drop by we can share a cup of tea and some Gr8 homemade cookies!

    And if you want to bake a batch of your own, just search for "cookies" in the search box here on Great Eight Friends!

    Originally published 11/20/2016

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