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It's October already, which means the holidays are just around the corner.
I'm planning a very ambitious baking project, which got me to thinking. Fellow bakers and holiday event planners of AW, when do you start planning, and how do you manage things on a larger scale? Tips, tricks and tales of food-related holiday successes (and failures...) are welcome here.
I'm a dispatcher for about 40 drivers--my project is to put together holiday cookie tins for every single one of them for Christmas. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible, but the sheer amount of baking is a little intimidating. If everyone gets a dozen, that's just shy of 500 cookies! That's a lot of cookies.
I'm still a little stuck on what to do for my diabetic driver and coworker. I'm glad I haven't just gone the "make it with Splenda and call it a day" route, as I talked to the driver about it more and he shares the same opinion I do, that artificial sweeteners aren't really any better of an option. So I'm still looking for a low sugar, preferably naturally sweetened option.
And that's not including what I'll be making for the office staff/drivers to share at my desk! I'll be doing my infamous hot cocoa cookies again for sure, those are always a hit. I only make them once a year because that's how long it takes to work them off at the gym lol. I really want to do a Stollen this year, and I also want to try to recreate the "fruit cake cookies" I made a couple years ago when I planned to do a Stollen and didn't, and ended up Frankensteining a recipe in order to use up the fruity bits. It turned out really well but I can't for the life of me remember what I did. Greek butter cookies are also a must, I have the recipe passed down from my Yia-yia many years ago.
I'm planning a very ambitious baking project, which got me to thinking. Fellow bakers and holiday event planners of AW, when do you start planning, and how do you manage things on a larger scale? Tips, tricks and tales of food-related holiday successes (and failures...) are welcome here.
I'm a dispatcher for about 40 drivers--my project is to put together holiday cookie tins for every single one of them for Christmas. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible, but the sheer amount of baking is a little intimidating. If everyone gets a dozen, that's just shy of 500 cookies! That's a lot of cookies.
I'm still a little stuck on what to do for my diabetic driver and coworker. I'm glad I haven't just gone the "make it with Splenda and call it a day" route, as I talked to the driver about it more and he shares the same opinion I do, that artificial sweeteners aren't really any better of an option. So I'm still looking for a low sugar, preferably naturally sweetened option.
And that's not including what I'll be making for the office staff/drivers to share at my desk! I'll be doing my infamous hot cocoa cookies again for sure, those are always a hit. I only make them once a year because that's how long it takes to work them off at the gym lol. I really want to do a Stollen this year, and I also want to try to recreate the "fruit cake cookies" I made a couple years ago when I planned to do a Stollen and didn't, and ended up Frankensteining a recipe in order to use up the fruity bits. It turned out really well but I can't for the life of me remember what I did. Greek butter cookies are also a must, I have the recipe passed down from my Yia-yia many years ago.