Cookie Baking Day Cookie Dough Making Night™

Refrigerator Cookie dough.
Best. Cookie. Ever!

Synchronized Ceremonial Turning On of the Ovens

The ceremonial Turning On of the Ovens will also take place at 10:00 am central time in Nashville, TN. We will attempt to synchronize exactly via a Google+ Hangout. Anyone at other locations is welcome to join in.

Cookie Baking Day 2012: date announced

Cookie Baking Day will be held Sunday, December 16 2012. Our gracious host LeRoy Undis will be presiding over the ceremonial Turning On of the Ovens at 10:00 at his home in Medina. Cookie Boss Jenni Undis will be assigning doughs any minute now, to those of you who haven't already called dibs. Questions regarding the day's schedule should be submitted in writing. In triplicate. Ha ha just kidding, email Jenni with questions.

Peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips and nuts

It turns out that chocolate chip cookies with nuts are even better when you use peanut butter cookie batter. Here is Laurie's gluten-free recipe. I recommend you double the amount of chocolate chips and nuts. The whole point is to have just enough batter to hold the chocolate chips and nuts together.

1 C peanut butter 

½  C Spectrum shortening 

1 C brown sugar 

2 eggs (replaced with 2 T flax meal and 6 T HOT water-mix)

1/4 tsp sea salt 

1 tsp vanilla 

1 tsp baking soda 

1 ½  C gluten free flour (I used a mixture of mostly potato starch with some rice flour) 

1 tsp xanthan gum  

1 C mini chocolate chips

1 ½  C chopped nuts 

Mix dough, roll one inch balls and place them on the baking sheet. Smoosh them slightly with a fork.

Bake at 375 for 10 minutes or until they start to brown. Let cool on the baking sheet of a couple of minutes before removing them to the cooling racks.

2011 Cookie Baking Day poll wrap-up

Here are the final results from last year's poll:

Should we bake more cookies than last year?
Yes - 91%
No - 8%

Which oven temperature do you like best?
325 - 8%
350 - 66%
375 - 25%

When the Oven Master gets her Psy.D. degree, should we call her the Oven Doctor?
Yes - 91%
No - 8%

#Occupy Cookie Baking Day

This message was received from anonymous sender(s):

To all the world.

We demand:
- move Cookie Baking Day to the Sunday before Christmas
- a 15-minute break for all cookie bakers every hour
- a 5-minute break for all ovens every 90 minutes
- some new Christmas music CDs
- all cookies are created equal
- no cookies for corporations: corporations don't eat cookies, people eat cookies
- new cookie sheets and a new mixer
- count ALL the cookies (you know what we mean!)
- Chocolate Chip Cookies with Nuts, and just enough batter to hold the chocolate chips and nuts together
- your blogger is awesome and he deserves huge rewards

Cookies matter!!!

These demands are not all-inclusive. Demand more below by posting a comment!

Cookie Baking Day 2011 recap

Final cookie count: 1,931 - a new record for a single location (the old record was 1,913 in 2007)

Ovens off: 7:07 pm

The last tray of cookies - out of the oven and to the cooling table

The last tray of cookies ready for the oven

Yet even more cookies!!!

Piles and piles of cookies

Frosting free-for-all

Happy cookie makers

Cookie count as of 6:18 pm

1831

Even more cookies!!

 Peanut Butter Blossoms

Cream Wafers

Candid action and TableCam

The Cookie Boss cracks the whip

More cookies!

Mint Chocolate Krinkles

Oatmeal White Chocolate Chips

Thumbprints

Chocolate Truffle Cookies

A historical moment: Timmy makes his first cookie

Go Preds!

The blogger and his pals hard at work

Cookie count as of 4:26 pm

1241

Slackers get no cookies

Those persons who leave the house and go to the park while everyone else slaves away in the kitchen,

 GET NO COOKIES!!!

-Santa

Cookie count as of 3:14 pm

895

Thumbprints in the makin'

Cookies!

 Macaroons

 Crescents

 Raspberry Somethings

 Chocolate Gingies

Sugar Cookies

Cookie count as of 1:02 pm

413

Taking a well-deserved short break

Ebony and ivory living in perfect harmony

(Chocolate gingies and macaroons)

Chapeau fashion on Cookie Baking Day

Everyone does their part on Cookie Baking Day

Raspberry Somethings in progress

Parts

Chocolate Gingies queuing up for some oven lovin'

(caption and photo courtesy of The Cookie Counter)

First batch out of the oven, and second batch in the oven

First batch in the oven

Macaroons!

Ovens On!

Training for Cookie Baking Day - The Oven Master

Training for Cookie Baking Day - The Cooling Table Queen

Training for Cookie Baking Day - The Cookie Matriarch

Training for Cookie Baking Day - The Blog Master

Training for Cookie Baking Day - The Cookie Counter

Vote in the 2011 Cookie Baking Day poll

This year we have three questions in our Cookie Baking Day poll. The questions are on the right side of this page. Voting closes at 11:59 a.m. on Cookie Baking Day, which is Sunday, December 18.

Please vote, and please spread the word about our poll.

Thanks, and have a great Cookie Baking Day!