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It was a dark and stormy cookie
Cookies have been made. And believe me, coming up with cookies that fit the theme of "a dark and stormy night" that aren't all gray-to-black was an interesting challenge.
For my future reference:
3 batches of dough: 2 hours
making all of it* into cookies: ~5 hours
plus about half an hour of setup
decorating: 5.5+3.0+4.0+6.0+8.0+5.5 = 32 hours
photographing & packing: ~1.5 hours
So about 41 hours total.
I only ended up decorating about half the cookies; fortunately, largely by chance, I started with the most thematic ones, so when I ran out of me, I could stop without much loss of effect. The rest will wait until I get back, and get done for the household. (These cookies last just short of forever.) Since membership's low this year, I'm hoping:
44 lightning bolts (3 sizes)
~60 clouds (3 sizes)
12 moons
39 candles
15 creepy houses
23 ravens
will prove to be plenty.
*I always make more dough than I need, because when I first started doing these, I would invariably burn several trays, and depending on the shapes, also break quite a few. But I've been getting better; this time I didn't burn a single one, and broke very very few. So there's an awful damn lot of cookies around here.
For my future reference:
3 batches of dough: 2 hours
making all of it* into cookies: ~5 hours
plus about half an hour of setup
decorating: 5.5+3.0+4.0+6.0+8.0+5.5 = 32 hours
photographing & packing: ~1.5 hours
So about 41 hours total.
I only ended up decorating about half the cookies; fortunately, largely by chance, I started with the most thematic ones, so when I ran out of me, I could stop without much loss of effect. The rest will wait until I get back, and get done for the household. (These cookies last just short of forever.) Since membership's low this year, I'm hoping:
44 lightning bolts (3 sizes)
~60 clouds (3 sizes)
12 moons
39 candles
15 creepy houses
23 ravens
will prove to be plenty.
*I always make more dough than I need, because when I first started doing these, I would invariably burn several trays, and depending on the shapes, also break quite a few. But I've been getting better; this time I didn't burn a single one, and broke very very few. So there's an awful damn lot of cookies around here.