Cellar Cookie Exchange
 

We have upgraded from an experiment! Several Cellarites have expressed interest in a cookie exchange, so here we go.

Cookies will be swapped and there will be much rejoicing and possibly weight gain in Cellar land.

Step 1:
PM me by Monday, February 2nd with:
-Address for cookie delivery
-How many people you are interested in baking for

By Friday, February 6th, I will PM you back with a list of your cookiecipients and their addresses.

Step 2
Bake cookies!
Ship out half a dozen cookies (adjust if your cookies are tiny or enormous) to each cookiecipient by Monday, February 23rd. Recipes are optional.

Step 3
Profit.
Eat and enjoy, and take pictures for posterity.

Note: Due to the perishable nature of cookies, the cookie exchange is going to have to be 'merkins only so that no furriners get screwed with postage and/or stale cookies.

What a crumby thread.

great!

i want to mail to jinx! i get a discount on postage....

No worries, mate - I'll whip up a batch of grandma Beestie's famous fruit-cake cookies for our buds across the pond.

Are you calling me a fruitcake?!

I'd love to get cookies if you're happy to send.
But I might PM Limey and see if she wants to be part of the exchange with me. Okay we won't have any surprises, but we'll still be taking part in all other aspects.

cool...and the aussies could do it too

I don't mind coordinating addresses for those, like Beestie, who would like to trade with someone on another continent. I just didn't want anyone to get hit with surprise postage.

Just let me know when you drop your PM if you're up for international trades. :)

Ahem - beat you to it. Shall we ask Dana if she's in, too?

Aye, although 3 people, 1 cookie exchange...?
How you do that?

easy ...
each cooks enough for two people and sends them in two directions
OR
each cooks enough for one and sends it to the person on the left (i.e. you to me, me to Dana, Dana to you or whichever other variant comes out of the bag)
Any other Brits interested can join in the chain ...

Of course, I don't have a logical mind :)
The more the merrier, esp if it includes a good old bird like D.

BTW - making the biscuit top a crumble really worked on the Apple Cake front.
Except that my Mum declared it too spicy. Mot spicy as in hot, just spicy as in two teaspoons of Mixed Spice and two of Cinnamon. I thought it was lovely, and well salvaged by yours truly. Dads just et it.

Yeah, I'm in. Domestic or International.

I'm gonna make some coooooookies
And you can't have none....

Disclaimer - this does not apply to Limey and/ or DanaC
This offer is subject to availability







In all seriousness, I have a recipe, I have 90% of the ingredients (important on a budget) and Mum says if I make them she'll cover the cost of postage, as she understands that she'll probably eat most of what we receive :)

Us UK Dwellars are outside the official exchange, but will be complying with the deadlines so that we are joining in, in our own way.

All excited now!

Is there anything your mother doesn't eat?

Butter beans.
That's about it.

Honestly, I would have warned you otherwise ;)

DAyum ... I'll have to have a rethink ... :D

I first read that question in the typical American sarcastic usage, along the lines of, "Is there anything your mother doesn't eat?!" as if to imply that she is horribly gluttonous. I am glad to discover limey wasn't just insulting SG's mother for no apparent reason. :)

lol...I went back and looked and see just what you mean, Clod. I had to make myself not think of it as the sarcastic American phrase.

Two (or three) nations separated by a common language
+
lack of aural cues in email/bulletin-board posts
=
:3eye:

Last call for cookie exchange! If you are interested in participating, please send me a PM in the next day or two with your address and how many people you'd like to bake for.

We have two people up for international exchange, so far, so if anyone abroad would like in, let me know!

My monster cookies were made last night, and will be dropped off at the post office on my way out of work. Hopefully they don't arrive as just bags of crumbs. Although that might make a nice ice cream topping...hmmmm.

Woo! Got in LabRat's monster cookies and already ate one in the time it took for me to get from the mailbox to my front door. They are delicious! Got here safe and sound, not crumbled at all. They're like.. peanut chocolate chip, kind of? Hard to describe. They are definitely "monster" cookies, though -- they're huge! Pictures shortly. Thanks, LR! :D

Got my cookies from Leah today...yummy...oatmeal choco chip m&m cookies..they are really good...pics soon!

LabRat's Monster Cookies!
 

Nom nom!

One picture of the cookies (minus the one I had already eaten) in their packaging, and one picture of a cookie in my hand -- so big!

:yum:

Are those M & Ms?

I got my cookies too! They were sooooo good. Hubby got into 2 of them before I could even enjoy one. Here are the Pics....cookies in the box, going into my belly, and whats left. After my husband saw the name on the box, he got a little worried...:D .

How nice to see you, Pico! You're gorgeous.

Aw shucks. Im just me, not gorgeous.

I just noticed how big that cookie looks! Im sure its just the perspective, but it looks almost bigger than my face .

You're a doll...either in the physical sense or in the sense of being an awesome person.

That is one damn big cookie!

I think it takes one to know one...:p .

But really Shawnee, you are very sweet. Thank you...:blush:

It takes a big cookie to know a big cookie? ;)

I'm not sweet. I just calls 'em as I sees 'em.

get a room!

Puh...you just want to watch.

My Dad used to work at Amersham BioSciences!
He used to handle radioactive materials...

Limey - I admit I haven't made them yet :(
But you will get them by the end of this week.
Damn - do I still have your address? Best PM me just in case!

Great efforts so far people.
And Pico - you are cute, the sight of you lifted my heart. Or maybe it was the huge cookie. Hard to tell sometimes.

I just read this thread :p

Ok. Much as I'd love to participate, I just don't have the headspace for cooking at the moment. Proper cooking, such as baking I would usually go and use my bro's kitchen. Mine just isn't suitable. It'd be like baking in a caravan: possible but fraught.

Also...they'd probably get cooked and then not posted. You guys have no idea how big a thing it was that I got my act together and sent an SS gift. *chuckles* though the card I bought in order to post separately from the intehwebz gift, never got posted. Written in, yes. Posted, not so.

At some point, I will get the book pack sent to you SG...but your guess as to when is probably as good as mine ;P

It's the small hands...
some say it's why her husband married her

Yeah!!! ::clap clap clap::

I was out of town over the weekend, so I didn't have a chance to mention 2 things.

One, after I got the boxes all taped up I realized that I totally forgot to put in the recipes. PM me if you want it, and I'll get it to you.

Two, there were 2 bags for a reason. One contained a set that were baked 2 minutes longer, so they were crunchier than usual. The softer set was how I prefer them, but our elderly neighbor likes 'em crunchy, so I figured that I would make them both ways.

When I make these, I use a 1/3 cup of dough for each one :D.

I cannot BELIEVE I missed this.

Serves you right for getting banned.

I wanta cookie but I don't deserve one.


*sob*

My cookies are going to be sent out on deadline day, Monday, because this week has been my first week teaching and I am absolutely EXHAUSTED. I'm looking forward to baking on the weekend, though, when I have a little free time.

yeah....we're baking sunday too.

we got labrat's GIANT FUCKING cookies today......quite tasty! we ate them before we could take pics, though.

NO! No peanut badness!
I just think I added too much salt :(

We only have one salt cellar in the house (for use on chips) and it takes a bit of shaking to get it out. So some may have escaped the teaspoon into the mix. How do I know? I held six back. Greedy pig. Me, Mum, Dad and Grandad ate them. You wouldn't deny pensioners a sweet treat now would you? ;)

Am not great at sweet baking I'm afraid.

Oh - they are "American style" in homage to the Cellar. They are sposed to be chewy. Would be biscuits otherwise.

Mine are going out today if I get to the post office in time, otherwise...Monday. I really hope they survive shipping.

I liked the saltyness, actually (and I'd forgotten about you and peanuts!). I think they're great!

Mine are called cookies, but ... well you'll just have to wait and see :cool: !

I'm baking today.... after I clean the house and grocery shop.

I hope the grocery shop pays you!

Cheers Limey - they went down well here too. Although Mum, being Mum just said, "... even Grandad liked them! Don't make any more." which passes as a compliment in her terms ;)

Sounds like our mom's would make great friends SG.

I'm gonna bake a bundt cake tomorrow.

I have a hankering for bundt cake---that is so weird.

bundt cake? you sure it's not pound cake?

that sounds really good.... some nice marbled pound cake and a cup of good coffee.



i got wood

No, not pound cake- a bundt---a pretty cake with a hole in the middle.

Bundt. Bundt.

It bothers me that there is a word that short and that common and I have absolutely no idea what it means or where it came from.

Attachment 21970


The cake may have originated from The German Gugelhupf cakes.

Y'all sure do fun stuffs. I need to hang around and browse more. :D Anyways, looking forward to seeing some cookies!

You need to read more ;)
Oh me too, me too!
In my hand!
Peanut butter and Pernod cookies, my favourite :yum:

[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!

Bundt at about 1:55.

i am baking RFN

i hope it's a bundt cake

Lemon drop cookies have been baked and glazed! They will go into the mail afternoon and will hopefully reach their destinations by Wednesday/Thursday.