Do you feel wanted?

[saffronhare]

Wanted: six dozen cookies
Princess Boredom and I have been invited to Cookie Exchange this Saturday morning (December 11th, 10:30 a.m., brunch to be served) at the home of one of her friends from school. This girl is in gymnastics with her and we carpool with the mom, who seems pretty cool. We'd really like to go.

I've called on the grandparent contingent to provide babysitting for the younger princesses (who are not invited; cool mom is exporting her two younger girls for the party as well), so I'm hoping child care is taken care of.

What I need help with is a nifty cookie recipe. See, we're supposed to bring six dozen of our favorite Christmas cookies. Um. My cookie repertoirs is quite thin -- but I'd still like to bring something yummy and unusual. Any ideas? (Rum is probably right out...unless I bring a few just for the moms.)

Possible bonus: I am hoping that attendance will get me in touch with the mothers of some neighborhood families who have babysitters on staff.


Wanted: one babysitter
Princess Boredom's first gymnastics meet of the season is on Saturday, December 18th (aptly called the Snowflake Meet). I don't have a solid time yet, but her group usually goes early in the day -- needing to be at the gym for 8 a.m. or so, then finishing up by 11:30 a.m.

The grandparents are invited to this extravaganza of sparkling, bouncing girls, so it would not work to ask them to babysit. It's also important to her that one of the parental units be present for the meet, but agrnmn will be working; zylch will be at work and is therefore unavailable for tike patrol. Are there any volunteers to keep Princesses !Kaboom and Sticky entertained/alive for a few hours? I am willing to barter some favors in exchange for this service.

Have your people call my people if you can help. Smooches,
me

Comments

Cookies

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

The White Trash Tea Cakes I brought for (some ritual) are the supereasiest, and one recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies:

1 box cake mix (any flavor, but not the pudding-in-the-mix kind)
1 8-oz tub cool whip (thawed)
1 egg
Confectioners' sugar

Mix together 1st three ingredients. Chill. Roll dough into balls, roll balls in sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

If what you're going for is more "exciting" than "easy", I can dig up some others - let me know.

mmmmm, good

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Easy is always good, but those are also very yummy and customizable. For instance, I could add red or green food coloring to the batter, or drizzle some icing on them.

More than anything, I'd rather not bring something that everyone else will be bringing. What would be the point of an exchange then, right?

Re: mmmmm, good

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I would go for red or green crystal sugars in addition to or instead of the confectioners' sugar more than the icing (they're pretty craggy cookies), and I would stick to a paste food coloring for the batter rather than a liquid. Really, as far as customizing these goes, I wouldn't add any liquid to the dough at all. It's pretty sticky as is.

For other options try here (http://www.cookierecipe.com).

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[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Excellent points all. I consider the problem solved, and the Mean Green Sewing Machine machine well-bartered-for*, if you decide you want it.

* Received: an appropriate and simple recipe when I needed it, as well as the assistance with not tripping over my own cleverness as I considered altering the recipe.

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Glad I could be of service.

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[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Yay, service. I should ask you to do more things for me.
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hm. the mind, it boggles.

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You may as well. I'm talented, efficient, creative, and unemployed.

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[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

May as well get your help with some Nine Fires stuff, then. Incidentally, our favorite Kick-Ass Lawyer may be passing some copy/layout work our way -- not specically design stuff, more making a PowerPoint look interesting. I'll let you know when I have more...