Holiday Baking: Week 2 and 3

After that half-hearted beginning, things are moving into higher gear around here. Last weekend I made:

• A double batch of chocolate chip cookies (yes, more of them)
• A double batch of lemon poppyseed cookies
• A single batch of peanut blossoms/Hershey Kiss cookies (they go by a lot of names) - only one, because that recipe makes a ridiculous number of them!

This weekend my planning was not the greatest; I ended up picking three recipes that need chilling time. So the dough was made on Saturday and baked on Sunday.

•  Single batch of midnight crackles; these are very intense, fudgy little guys, and I always find that a couple of them is enough for a cookie tray
• Double batch of Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies. 
• Double batch of cookies for the peppermint filled ones everyone loves so much; these will be filled as needed later in the season.

My freezer is already looking kind of stuffed. Next weekend things really get cranking! 

It Begins!

My holiday baking season officially started yesterday -- slowly, with one batch of chocolate chip cookies, which I over-baked, and some sugar cookies. I saved out the best of the c.c. batch and stashed them in the freezer along with most of the sugar cookies; there are always a few that end up misshapen.

It's been a weird, and a very stressful, year., and I am looking forward to its end, although I worry that nothing much will improve.