Every year my mom has an "ornament and cookie exchange" party around Christmas. Every year thus far I've been off of work the day of the party. But not this year. And I don't think I'll do it again if it's on a work day. I was tired about two hours into it. Very tired. I even made my cookies a day in advance.
I don't bake very often, but I
never make cookies besides the ones for this yearly party. With cakes and brownies, you mix shit together and pour it in a pan and put in the oven and you're done. With cookies there isn't one "just put a pan in the oven and you're done" part. There are several. You're stuck in the kitchen for a hour, just taking cookies in and out of the oven.
These were my cookies this year:
They're cinnamon roll sugar cookies and they're not exactly winning any beauty prizes, but they tasted really good. They're a soft sugar cookie rolled with butter, cinnamon and brown sugar and then iced. There was really no way they wouldn't taste good. I've won "best tasting" a few times at these parties, and it was never because the cookie I made was that fantastic, but because I had one of the only edible ones there. People try to add too much razzmatazz to their cookies, like weird spices and vegetables. Just keep it simple. People love cookies because of butter and sugar, not sage and zucchini.
There's also an ornament exchange part.
I had no idea what kind of ornament to get the first time my Mom threw this party, so I was wandering around Target looking for something to get and I was surprised by how many ornaments were really weird and gaudy. So I got one of those. One year it was a glittery cucumber, then a shark in a hula skirt, a hippo in a Santa bikini, a bucket of beer.
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