Cookies, Cookies & More cookies.....

After a full day of shopping, we came home and still had to bake cookies. I am heading out to a cookie swap tomorrow afternoon and I have to make 6 DOZEN cookies! This may not seem like a lot to some people, but this is a lot for me. Especially since using a pre-made cookie mix was out of the question. I am no Betty Crocker, that's for sure. Being such an inexperienced cookie baker, I am thinking that starting at 6pm was probably not the wisest of decisions. But this was the ONLY spare time I have had to bake!

Things started out OK, until 6:15pm...lol. When I realized that I needed 'parchment paper'. I had no idea what that even was, never mind have it in the house!!!! Mike checked it out online and then headed over to the store to pick some up. Thank goodness we live so close to Stop & Shop :-) I also had him pick up some other ingredients in case my cookies turned out horrible. By the time he got back, things weren't looking too good. I had already missed 2 ingredients and tried to mix them in later...which I KNOW is a "no-no", but I figured we could at least see how the first batch would come out...yikes! The second and third batch came out much better. I ended up back at the store at 10pm for more parchment paper and rolos...lol. I'm thinking I should have chosen something easier for my first cookie swap! I sure did have some great helpers...Katie helped me with the mixing and Mike helped with the rolling!

ROLOS!!!

When Katie saw the cookie dough she said, "Look Mommy, it looks like a GIANT POOP!" lol

Yes Katie, it did look like a GIANT POOP!

I don't know what I would have done without Mike's help. As tired as he was, he hung in there with me until 11pm when the last batch came out of the oven.

I made a cookie called "Million Dollar Caramel" and they were actually quite yummy!!! If you are interested, here is the recipe...