Sorry SG :o life intervened - I'm just off to turn on the oven NOW and will post tomorrow (Tuesday).

Yum yum, yum yum yum
Yummy yummy yum yum, yum yum yum...

Don't you worry bout a thing.
Dad and Grandad have no idea they are arriving, so it will be a lovely surprise for them regardless. Mum knows they are supposed to come, but she still, really, hasn't grasped the idea of the Cellar - despite everything. I suspect she still thinks this is some sort of cookie chain letter...

biscotti x 4

[upon receiving a bundt cake from Mrs. Miller]
Maria Portokalos: It's a cake! I know! Thank you! Thank you very, very much.
[whispering to Aunt Freida]
Maria Portokalos: There's a hole in this cake!

Baked - check
Lookin' good - check
Smellin' grea - check
tastin' fab - check
Postin' tomorrer - checkeroo!
To be honest, your mum's not all that wrong, is she?

Wooooow! All excited!!!
She's Mrs McWrong from the wrong side of Wrong Town.
She can't understand a community which doesn't have face to face contact.

Cookies in the mail. Hope they get there in one piece! Err.... at least edible sized pieces.

um...:o

Ummmm. Ermmm.

No wonder it sounded like a good idea.

Cookies in the mail :) .

ok, I shipped our cookies this AM. jinx and I had one cookiecipient in common, so I only had to send 5 boxes. I hope Wickedly Tastefull is still around....I sent her a PM cuz i haven't seen her on here in a couple weeks.....and got no reply.....still....cookies in the mail will hopefully jog her memory.

also, jinx got cookies today from Pico. I didn't open them.....that was difficult.

She was one of my recipients...but I swear the peanut butter in my cookies was clean!!!

I can't wait to get mine. :yum: I need *something* to go right for once.

Ahhhh.....thought cookie pix won't be posted til the 24th, but I went back a few pages and saw some. Yummy!

I got cookies in the mail today, Jim says they're from Pico & me - anyway they are delicious. I've never had them before.. chocolate chips and pecans and coconut... really, really good. Thank you!

they were very small. moar!

I'm glad you liked them! I saw the recipe online and since my three favorite ingredients were in it, I went for it! Heres the recipe.

I'm sorry they were so small, but I needed them to fit into the paper cups because of the icing.

don't be sorry...i'm too fat anyway....i was just complimenting your cookies.

they taste a lot like the best girls scout cookies (used to be called Samoas)

That look and sound absolutely yummy! I just may try the recipe one day. Well, uh...not until I lose these bulging 4 pounds. :p

Pico! Your cookies are absolutely delicious! I usually don't care for coconut, but these are wonderful. Thank you!

Thanks Chocolatl! I think im going to make another batch. I only frosted the ones I sent out and left the rest for the boys.

so...wickedly tasteful moved!

i got a pm back from her today.....i sent the cookies tuesday. she hasn't sent hers out yet.

who else was sending to her?

Me. Wouldnt her change of address handle it?

yeah my change of address will take care of it...ill get my cookies sent out this week...sorry bout the inconvience

I sent mine out Monday night, so they should be getting there today or tomorrow.

My cookiecipients were Wickedly_Tasteful, LabRat, and Jim and Jinx. No matter how random and scrambled I tried to make it, it always worked out so that someone got both Jim and Jinx -- mostly because we only had a few people participating in the first place. I sent y'all a double batch of cookies, for now, and will send along a second type some other time. :)

Jinx, i got your cookies. OMG...they are incredible. They are so fat they remind me of scones. Good job. They wont last long.

LJ, no wonder you thought my cookies were so small...:)

Wow, that was quick, awesome!

I completely screwed up a batch of oatmeal raisin cookies I had planned to send to jinx. Something went horribly wrong.

So, I have come to a decision. I'm bringing in the BIG guns. I'm calling Mom and getting her recipie for a cookie she used to make back when she baked a lot. Yeah, I'm late but hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

I was actually losing weight until the boxes started up showing up in the mail. Damn y'all.

But they are all too delicious to pass up! Fantastic cookies!

I don't mind waiting. :headshake

Cookies from Choco in our mailbox today :) Super yummy lemon cookies. We had to open them in the car and sample them right away...
And I've got to say, the kids are really loving this idea.

Limey, Sundae got your cookies and they were delicious! She thanks you most heartily :)

I'm glad they got there without crumbling! I was worried that the padded envelope wouldn't be enough -- especially when the mail guy just THREW the envelope onto a pile. I was like "Hello?! What part of FRAGILE COOKIES did you not understand?!"

I am sad to report that we were not able to get pictures of Jim's chocolate chip cookies because we have already eaten them all. Seriously, best damned chocolate chip cookies I have ever had.

that gives me pleasure

How'd you take the picture with the camera IN the picture. Damn you are gooood!.

she's fast!


pweeeer!

Jollly good. I was beginning to worry that I'd poisoned her :greenface or that they'd not arrived. Is she deprived of innernets at the moment?

Not deprived no. She's just taking a little break, 'cause she feels the need to. She'll be back about soon.

Ohhhhh my - Jinx' cookies arrived today. Man, they were tasteeeeeeeeeee! House of Beestie was very pleased!

Here are some pics of the kids enjoying the cookies.

Mind you, these pictures were taken 8.13 seconds apart.

Awesome! I love the single crumb left on the platter....

They fought over that crumb. Sophia won with a reverse figure-four arm lock.

i like to see kids grinning like that.


.....worth it

Recieved Choco's lemon heaven's on Friday, and jim and jinx's Sat. The lemon ones remind me of my favorite bakery's lemon bars. Deeeelish!! Chocolate chip and the other ones, with the swirl chips were awesome too. Thankee!!!

Good thing I didn't put my 'fat pants' too high in the closet... :yum:

Limey I am so sorry.
If ever "cookies" needed to be photographed for posterity it was yours.
But I was not organised enough to sort it out before they went. Please bear in mind that I was troubled in mind and spirit when they arrived, so the joy they occasioned was extraordinary for me at the time.

Mum & I came home from our walk, all hot and sweaty and tired feet and all. And there on the stairs was a Zazzle box - the same Zazzle box which came from America with my mug in. The same Zazzle box which went to Scotland with Limey's cookies in. I love it when things are reused, so much better than recycling imo.

Dads was already excited - he loves anything through the post. Mum would have been too, but she seemed to think she had just been on some form of Death Walk, so when she heard it was cookies she groaned at the idea of walking them off. Dads on the other hand was even more excited that it was cookies and immediately put the kettle on.

Lo and behold, a recipe sheet, with the disingenuous "ingredients warning" as if it might contain bleurgh things. I ran into my parents with the news immediately, before even opening the cookies - look! Blue cheese and poppy seed!

It's true.

Bless Limey, she took my savoury tooth seriously and sent me savoury cookies. The ingredients made me blanch somewhat, due to their perceived fat content, but what the hell, they were small enough for a treat. Each cookie was a pale tan, a slight oval, with the edge rolled in poppy seeds. I'm horrid at estimating size - they were approx the length of my thumb across. And there were LOADS! I was really tight sending mine - I chose 6 of the best. Limey sent the whole batch (20+) apart from 2 snaffled from the ends because they were offcuts.

Anyway, the kettle was boiled, but sadly I had to remind my parents that it was Ash Wednesday - a day of fasting - and they couldn't have none. Hahaha, I sneaked one in while I was "putting them away for tomorrow". Lovely! Not cookies really of course. But with the taste and texture of a gourmet biscuit (in the UK meaning of the word) and really, really good. Crumbly, but not so much that they were dry. The cheese was an aftertaste and the poppy seeds (round the edge of each biscuit) gave a really lovely crunch. I had worried that they would be too rich and overpowering, but in fact they were subtle and very moreish. I'm not being a brown noser when I say I would expect to see those in an upmarket deli.

Anyway, next day, both my parents figured they were lovely on their own but even better with low fat soft cheese (Mum) or Extra Mature Canadian Cheddar (Dad). I ate a ration of two, with sliced apple. I am a good girl.

They were gone by Friday, without enough time for me to get organised enough to photograph them. Okay, enough time, not enough manners.

I feel a bit William Carlos Williams about it.

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the biscuits
that were in
the Roses tin

and which
I should probably
saved
for photos.

Forgive me
they were delicious
so crumby
and such cheese.

Absolutely no apologies necessary, SG. I got your message via Dana in this thread. I'm just glad you and you're family enjoyed them: I was afraid I'd poisoned you when I posted them to you and you fell silent :eek: ...
True, the ingredients list is a little scary but they're dead easy to make.
(Din't your grandpa get any?)

Sundae is channelling William Carlos William there ;)

Beestie's excellent cookies arrived - yay!
They are super rich and delicious, thanks Beestie :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Wow! those look like delicious balls!

I have not recieved any other cookies. Did someone else besides Jim/jinx and Choco send to me and I did not recieve them?

I am asking because I recently found out that I never received a package sent to me in January. If another package is missing, I'm going to be raising hell with my postmaster. I've already had a face-to-face with my postman.

Thanks.

What a household - even Jinx has lovely balls!
I didn't send any, but ftr my pressie from Ali did not arrive this year. I was so grumpy. She suggested I sniffed the postie (from which I guessed it was smellies) but I haven't dared, because I'm too scared he's not the culprit (postman armpit anyone?!)

Oh Limey - Grandad likes sweet not savoury. But he can also be an awkward bugger about texture too (many sweet things are deemed too sticky). And just an awkward bugger overall sometimes. Well, he's 86, he's already lost his wife and favourite sister and he has Parkinsons. Life isn't a barrel of laughs I guess. We're not starving him though, I promise! Actually he had a fall this morning. Luckily just bruising, although he'll be stiff for a while. One of his carers was there, although there was a bit of panic because they couldn't get hold of Mum. But it was only because she was already on her way round. They're (my parents) in Hainault today - emptying out the last of Fatty Alice's stuff from her house as there's a buyer. Poor Mum & Dad. They won't get a penny more than anyone else when this will is settled, and yet they've had all the stress, the hassle and the expense of going back & forth to deal with. No wonder Alice made Mum the executor - she knew it would get done with her in charge.

Anyway, sorry.
Back to cookies.

You must be the other one on Wickedly Tasteful's list. She said she was having issues and would be sending them later. I've been waiting with not-so-bated breath.

ah well. newbs.

:eyebrow:

Hey, not all newbs...

793?
Not a newb.
Honest.

Loved & treasured x

Very glad you liked them!

I made 'em in the shape of balls to make Bri jealous. Nice to see that it worked. :D

[little bit OCD] But...they're not cookies if they're balls. Cookies and biscuits = flat. Theyhave to be called something else if they're round.

It's just not right. Things are supposed to be a certain way.... [/little bit OCD]

lol @ Dana - they're cookie balls silly!

Yes...then they're cookie balls...not cookies.





[eta] extremely delicious looking cookie balls that is

well now tyhat we have determined their gender. . .

Note from the cookie boss:

LabRat, your four cookie senders were me, Jim, Jinx, and Wickedly_Tasteful. Sounds like Wicked is having some issues after moving, so hopefully her cookies will be sent out in the near future. That should be the only box you're still waiting on.

I actually thought the same thing. But since I completely screwed up the first batch, I decided getting Jinx some cookies that didn't suck trumped the flat cookie rule. :blush:

Thats funny, I was considering doing a batch of bar cookies but worried that they wouldn't be considered 'real' cookies.