Christmas Cookie Bakeathon Tradition ~ Baking & Giving

Our yearly Christmas Cookie Bakeathon Day arrived sunny and warm -- not very Christmasy at all. But the fresh baked aromas soon got us all in the Christmas mood.  When we took a break for fresh cookies and milk the mood was complete.

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

Christmas Cookie Bakeathon Preparation

Each year our family bakes hundreds, if not thousands, of Christmas cookies. We share them with almost everyone we see during the holidays:  clerks from our favorite stores, delivery personnel from Fed Ex, UPS and more, everyone at my husband's place of employment, elderly friends, family, church friends and so on!  We have learned to prepare ahead of time, so when the baking day comes, we can quickly, well, not quickly, maybe efficiently get them all baked and packed.

We use plastic storage bags and measure all the ingredients possible, dividing the wet from the dry.  A copy of the recipe is stapled to one of the bags and they