Plan your own Baking Day with friends and family where you bake cookies and make candy for the holidays together.Share the costs, the work, and spoils so everyone leaves with a boat load of Christmas treats.It might be your new favorite tradition! In the Midwest, people love to get together to make cookies and candy for the holidays.

When I was growing up, it was always my mom, grandma, aunt, my mom’s aunt, and my sisters and me (I was young and only helped with taste-testing).They would choose a dozen or so cookie and candy recipes and split the cost of the ingredients to make double or triple batches of everything.Then, they would get together one day and mix, bake, and frost with reckless abandon.

They shared they work and they divided their spoils.Everybody went home with an equal share of all the treats after having completed 20% of the work.It’s a day of fun, cookies, and life-long memories! Ready to plan your own epic Baking Day? Table of ContentsChoose your crewChoose your dateChoose your recipesMake your shopping listMake your game planConsider refreshmentsRolled cookiesMolded cookiesWaffle cookiesDrop cookiesPressed cookiesBar cookiesSlice-and-bake cookiesHomemade candyChoose your crew A group of 3-4 people works best.

Fewer than that means you won’t be able to crank out 10-12 recipes in a day.More than that and you’ll have too many cooks in the kitchen! Talk to your brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents, aunts and unc

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