Chocolate Marshmallow Clouds from Waverly, TN

Another precinct heard from.

Here are Natalie and Andy hard at play on Cookie Baking Day!

Merry

Lovely

Delicious

What the little kids have been up to while the big kids have been baking cookies

Yummy

Sweet!

Rollin' rollin' rollin'

The perfect combination of ingredients

Break for lunch

Turkey sandwiches!

Brand new

Coconut snowdrops!

Peanut butter blossoms

Is popcorn a cookie?

Samers!

Cookie Baking Day is a very colorful day

Blizzard conditions

See that cookie. It's Minnesota.

See that white stuff on the cookie? It's snow!

Broken cookie

What to do?

Any suggestions?

Cookies are not just for baking

Decorating cookies is fun

Busy hands

It's called planning

Here is the Minnesota plan:
 

2010 The Great Cooky Explosion!
Sunday, December 19, 2010 - Medina, MN

Sugar cookies (Jenni - 1 batch - MS recipe) - 325
Crescents (Laura - 4 batches) - 350
Mint Chocolate Krinkles (1 batch - Janie) - 350
Coconut Snowdrops (2 batches - Jenni) - 350
Thumbprints (8 batches - Debbie) - 350

LUNCH - turkey sandwiches

Raspberry Rosenmunners (2 batches - Jenni) - 350
Peanut butter Blossoms (3 batches - Don) - 375
Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip (2 batches - Janie) - 375
Snowballs (Steve) - 400
Refrigerator Cookies (2 batches - Don) - 400

Cookie Baking Day Bunny Ears (or is it Bunnie Ears?)

Making it look easy

Preparation is very important, as Cookie Baking Day veterans know. Martha Stewart would be very proud of Laurie for getting everything ready ahead of time.

Cookie Baking Day invades Europe

From England, Uncle EuroTim sends this picture of the flan he made for Cookie Baking Day. Who knew flan is a cookie? Apparently it is in Europe.

Boy, it sure looks good!

Turning on the oven in Nashville

A quite kitchen in Nashville before Cookie Baking Day

Cookie or cooky?

How do you spell it?

Go to Uncle Don Question Time and tell the world.

Nashville CookieCam - live streaming Cookie Baking Day action

To follow all the hot Cookie Baking Day action in Nashville via streaming internet video, go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cookie-baking-day-2010-nashville beginning at 10:00 a.m. central time on Sunday, December 19th.

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Let's get ready to........crumble!

It's now less than 48 hours to Cookie Baking Day!

In Nashville, we'll be making:

- Snowballs

- Gingerbread cookies

- Sugar cookie cutouts

- Thumbprints

- Peanut butter blossoms

- Chocolate chip cookies with nuts (just enough batter to hold the chocolate chips and nuts together)

- Mint krinkles (This will be the first time we've made them in Tennessee. Mint chocolate chips are very hard to find here, but Laurie managed to score two bags.)

"Ovens On" time is 10:00 a.m. central time this Sunday.

We are introducing two technological improvements in Nashville this year:

- Streaming video - stay tuned for instructions on how to tune in to the CookieCam.

- Christmas music via iTunes - Laurie has created a playlist on her iPod, so there won't be any dead air time switching CDs.

Cookies in Cultural Anthropology

A friend of mine writes a great blog about exotic sweets. In a recent post, she suggests that a lot can be learned about a culture from its cookies:

"I'd argue for judging a culture by its cookies. Besides being more palatable, cookies are at least as revealing. Even simple things, like size, or variety, or shelf-life can lead to new understandings (or at least new questions) about how people within a group relate to one another."

You can read more of Julia's insights at sweet-travel.blogspot.com