Yum! Oatmeal brown sugar cookies taste so good.

Tonight was all about the Cs — charades, Christmas carols and cookies. SO MANY cookies. Overblessified by the number of cookies really. I guess that is expected when your church community group holds a holiday cookie exchange. If you have never participated in one, I recommended them, especially if you love cookies. Everyone brings a different batch and you get to take home a sampling of the goodies.

Not all exchanges are the same, but for ours, the steps from baking to eating were pretty easy.

1. Get a group.
2. Have each participant pick a cookie.
3. Add up the number of cookies you need. We brought a dozen to eat at the party and then a half dozen for each participant to take home. If you have six participants, you need to make a dozen to munch and another three to bag up for later. So, four dozen total.
4. Bake.
5. Bag. Put six cookies in a plastic bag. Do that for each other participant who will receive your cookies.
6. Go, eat and exchange.
7. Come home with TONS of cookies.

Our cookie loot.

I am sure you are all now wondering what type of cookie Cole and I took. The answer won't make you fall off your chair. We took oatmeal brown sugar cookies. So good. But ... it's not because we are master bakers. Actually, we don't bake. Not even a little. We don't even own flour. These tasty treats can be found in the refrigeration aisle at your local grocery store: Pillsbury Simply Oatmeal Brown Sugar (no idea why the Pillsbury site doesn't mention them).

Between study for finals, Cole popped them onto baking sheets (which we do own) and like magic we made compliment-worthy cookies. As I just told said, Cole did all the baking, so for my part, I made them cute. I am better at that than baking. (Even though I did make pies this week, kind of.) I created little labels for our cookies so our friends knew the treat they unlocking. With a little designing, a bit of cutting and a tad of stapling, we had handmade packaging.

Little labels I made for our cookies, ingredients and all.

Moral of this story: do what you are good at and leave the rest to the professionals. It's better, and tastier, for everyone involved.