Oh yeah I totally fell for the cookie exchange thing this year too. And I did bring home a nice fat tupperware full of delicious assorted cookies. Of course coming down with the stomach flu was not part of the plan so I guess I'll be saving the cookies until I'm done being sick.
Good luck with the baking!

 

Dang, I LOVE to bake and 16 dozen cookies still sounds like a lot to me.

 

I live and have lived in the Midwest my whole life, and I've never heard it called an Advisory. It was just a plain old homeroom around here!

 

16 dozen cookies! My daughter's preschool class did an exchange last year (not everyone participated...not me!) and they had to make 11 dozen!

There is no way that I'm making 11 dozen cookies for anything. Plus I'd just eat them all myself anyway and I really don't need to gain any more weight.

 

Even with 2 cookie sheets that would take forever! There are easier recipes out there. How about chocolate chip cookies using red and green M&M's. Seriously. 16 dozen?

 

I hate getting involved with anything that involves making a mess and cleaning things up. (I've never lived anywhere with a dishwasher that was not human.) Hence: no baking for me, although once in a while I do enjoy it. (Like, every seven or so years.) A cookie exchange sounds, fun, though. I might be enticed to make a mess for a cookie exchange.

As for advisory, I actually think that our school is one of the only places on the planet to make up such a fancy name for homeroom. Just like forcing us to wear white floor length gowns and white tuxes to graduation, although I just found someone from New Jersey whose public school also had such an obnoxious and costly tradition. (Unlike us, they did not also have to buy their own books for class, though.) The pretension kills me. Wow, I can't believe how worked up I am getting right now. Sorry. I'll stop.

 

Hi, Alex!

Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment, I love to get comments, especially from new people!

I was just reading some of your posts and laughing (not at you, with you!). You're very funny! Being that I live in a suburb of Chicago I am just a teensy big prejudiced about Chi Town myself, so I can relate! I love living here and it would be really strange for me to start over somewhere else. I give you credit for trying so hard! I have lots of baking to do today for my son's class party on Thursday. You peaked my interest with the recipe for those fancy cookies, they sound delicious, however, I am not the best baker, either, and I think they sound a little out of my league! :) Take care!

 

Yeah, I'd be coming up with a new plan too. 16 dozen cookies is one thing but then the jam and the chocolate and the nuts. Just buy some at the bakery and call it a day!

You know a real bakery not the one at the grocery store, those are kind of homemade aren't they?

:-)

 

*whispering* nestle's tollhouse chocolate chip cookies - get the place and bake ones from the store - then you and OS can just break them apart and bake them. throw on some random flour in spots, and it looks (and they taste) like you followed the recipe from the chips bag. always gets rave reviews. */whispering*

 

This post should be a sure-fired way for a PR flack to find you and send you a cookie sheet to review. I *hope* for your sake :)

 

I was wondering why you didn't just buy those cookies and place them in your own container. I mean, you are just bringing cookies for exchanging - not for a contest!

You really made me laugh today!!

 

You're hilarious. Like Suebob, I enjoy baking and 8 dozen sandwich cookies with jam and chocolate and nuts... well, it's too much for me!