We don't make fancy Christmas Cookies, we just use our family's recipes handed down thru the generations. Like Aunt Marian's chocolate cookies, Great Grandpa's soft sugar cookies and Grandma's peanut butter cookies. We
throw in a few of our own creations, like Dad's Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip cookies and Blue Ribbon Blonde Brownies (recipe was tweaked from Great Aunt Dot's recipe she used to send Grandpa in the service).
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| Rolling Snickerdoodles. |
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| Finished Snickerdoodles. |
As the cookies are finished and cooled we store them in Rubbermaid containers until it is time to fill the boxes and trays.
Cookies are all ready and on the table for sorting.
When the containers are filled with cookies we sprinkle with candy.
All hands on deck for packing. Mom was snapping the pictures, but also packed.
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| Elizabeth |
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| Sarah |
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| Dad |
These boxes are for the plant employees at Dad's place of work. We cut off the flaps of cardboard boxes and wrapped with Christmas paper. We double line them with Saran Wrap before filling and pull it up over the top to seal it well.
We also filled some trays for the church office and Dad's office. As well as smaller plates for our favorite store clerks.
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| Third shift box ready to be wrapped in Saran Wrap and delivered. |
And last, but surely not least, the cookies we mail are packed into oatmeal boxes lined with plastic bags. We tuck them in the freezer to keep them fresh until the day we will mail them. They will slowly thaw as they travel.
Mom's grandfather used to send a huge box of sugar cookies each year at Christmas packed in popcorn. The popcorn was strung for their tree. In Dad's family he and his family mailed cookies to their grandparents.
Two small or one large oatmeal container fit into the small flat rate boxes; and they hold a surprising number of cookies. Dad's family always used coffee cans, which we do not have available to us. Sarah used Christmas Catalog pages crumpled up as packing filler around the oatmeal boxes (not the cookies).
Sarah decorated the boxes with some Christmas themed stencils and green lines around the red.
On the way to the US Post Office!
If you'd like to see how we get ready for our baking day check out this earlier post: Christmas Cookine Bakethon Preparation.
Merry Christmas!
