After the party, I’ve made it tradition to play the cookie fairy. I hand deliver boxes of cookies, and take trays and plates of cookies to friends and work and people who either couldn’t make thaw party, or I owe a favor, or who I’d like to owe me one. So far this year, I’ve taken a big tray to work, a smaller plate to a committee meeting, and a platter to our exchange student’s choir concert at the high school. I took two plastic buckets to friend’s houses up the street. Rachael took a big bucket to Scout. I gave Andy a box to take to the Historical Society. And, since I’m driving Dad’s car with the cruddy tires, and the roads have been a little slick, I have a box for Steve & Heike all packed, stored in the cold vestibule, that I haven’t gotten delivered. I even had it with me Thursday, but they live east and all my errands have been west. I’m having coffee with Heike Monday, so I should be able to get it delivered then. Tomorrow I am going to take a box to Matt & Susan Smith at the indoor market. Sunday I’ll take a big foil pan of cookies to Savory Sunday, the weekly dinner for the homeless.
I’ve made a few extra kinds, just enough to keep from going into complete cookie withdrawal. The cranberry chocolate chip with orange and walnuts, from Rose’s Christmas Cookies – remembered to make them with dried cranberries this year. Last year I used the fresh the recipe calls for and they were more like muffin tops than cookies. Last night I made the chocolate hazelnut truffles and froze them. They will come out for New Years. I’m planning on making more spritz – probably tomorrow. And I still need to make the peppermint bark. And there’ll still be a nice tray just for us, for either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinner’s dessert.
