Wednesday, my mother, sister, niece, and I made a ton of cookies, fudge, and cake pops.
It was fun for a while.
That was in the early bit of the 8 to 10 hours of baking.
Mom told us to choose three cookies we wanted to make.
I just wanted ginger snaps, chocolate chip, and cake pops.
Laurie wanted to do divinity, sugar cookies, and spritzer cookies.
Mom had a list of about 5 things, including two types of fudge.
We made chocolate chip, divinity, sugar cookies, spritzer cookies, banana chocolate chip cookies (gag!), jello fudge, butterscotch cheesecake fudge, chocolate chip bars, and 75 cake pops.
I was the cake pop queen.
However, it gets exhausting after the first 25-50 of them.
Now, normally we are only baking for ourselves and maybe another two or three people, which would be grandparents and/or uncle.
No, Mom decides to drop a bomb on us that we are also making them for her people at work.
I don't mind making them for family, but to be last minute dropped that we have to make enough for the people at her work, too, really killed the whole holiday spirit that day.
Laurie and I did not want to be there until midnight making cookies.
Laurie is 6 days from giving birth to her second child, and I have a low tolerance when it comes to bull spit.
Tension was running high around 5:30 p.m.
On top of cookies my mother wanted us to decorate the tree.
Had she gotten her way with everything we would have been there well into 2 a.m.
We stayed there until 8:30 to 9 p.m.
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I learned a lot about cake pops.
They have to be very close to frozen before dipping them.
Otherwise they slide off the candy stick.
That's not good, it's very messy.
Not a whole lot of frosting needs to be added.
A lot of lessons in the ways of cake pops were learned.
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