then box them and fedex them to my house

Blue!  We just finished our annual cookie-baking and candy-making jamboree!  We started at 7:30 last Thursday morning and we finished earlier than we ever have, at about 2:15 on Saturday.  We made 25 kinds of cookies and 9 kinds of candy.  We had 26 kinds of cookies on the list and 10 kinds of candy, but we had to forego the cookie press cookies this year...and make a run to the emergency room, instead.  My sister, who is a master baker and does all the mixing with her Kitchen Aid stand mixer, and has been doing this all her life - breaking her eggs into a pyrex ramiken...dropped the ramiken (it slipped out of her hand) into the mixing bowl while the mixer was running and it broke the bowl...and she cut her finger.  To make a long story short, she and Mom spent 2 hrs at the Texas Med Clinic getting stitches...and I pressed on with pride while they were gone...after tossing the batch with the broken bown and cleaning up, I baked 4 batches of cookies we already had mixed up in the fridge.  She was able to continue mixing with the mixer (and a plastic bowl for breaking eggs!) starting on Friday morning, but we couldn't do anything that required her to put much pressure on that hand.  I don't usually get that involved in the actual baking, but I had to do all the drop cookies this year, because we use a cookie scoop, and she couldn't squeeze it.

 

I wish I'd had this recipe before our baking, I'm sure we'd have tried it.  We may have to make a batch of these in January...or at least soon!  Macaroons are one of our favorites...and we didn't make any this year. 

Omg pache, im so glad your sister is gonna be ok. Good for you for stepping up to the plate and continuing the cookies. thats a lot of cookies and candies. Im not a baker at all, and my sister does the baking. this year we will only have a couple of cookies and nut breads.

 

one of them will be the macaroons. they are so easy even i can make them. they have been my favorite since i was a kid. I hope you do get a chance to make them.