The Baking Has Commenced

I baked some cookies this afternoon for tomorrow’s MOMS club cookie swap. They’re Andes Candies cookies. I couldn’t find my recipe in any of my cookbooks, but the internet is a wonderful thing – here they are. I ended up with 7 1/2 dozen instead of the 6 I was supposed to have. Oh, darn.

And they are delicious.

This is only the first of many holiday baking projects over the next three weeks. I can’t decide whether to hide my scale until January or actually try to fit in a little extra exercise. (As if toting a 20+ pound toddler and chasing after her all day isn’t exercise?)