If I hear....

[Luv Bunnies]

....."Mom can I have a cookie?" just one more time I think I'll blow a gasket in my brain! I've been baking cut-out sugar cookies on and off for two days. These cookies are pretty labor-intensive with all the mixing, chilling, rolling, baking, frosting and sprinkling. I'm giving plates to three neighbors and trying to make sure we have enough for Christmas Day when my family comes over. So my boys keep sneaking in and taking them off the plates I'm setting up. I told them not to take any without asking first since I need to make sure I have enough to give away. So now, they're asking...about every five minutes! When I say not right now they say, "But Mom, your sugar cookies are the best! We just can't resist!" OK, they get points for flattery but they still can't eat cookies for dinner!

 

[locolala]

Maybe let them decorate some and then they can eat em? Thats what my gramma and dad used to do!

 

[luvsJack]

When my boys were young I made cookies each year, gave them as gifts and saved them for Christmas day. Well, one year after not letting them have them and then throwing a few out at the end of the holidays I started doing it a bit different.

From that year on, the kids helped make all the cookies. Sometimes they were mixed, rolled out and decorated; sometimes they were made from a mix; some years they were slice and bake--but whatever they were the kids could eat to their heart's content.



Good luck keeping them out of them enough to do what you need to do! Merry Christmas!

 

[MELSMICE]

Next time make an additional batch just for them. Problem solved!

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's a little "grinchy" not to allow your kids to eat the cookies you're making because you're going to give them away!

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Next time make an additional batch just for them. Problem solved!

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's a little "grinchy" not to allow your kids to eat the cookies you're making because you're going to give them away!

But if the kids eat all the cookies, I won't have any left to give away! I don't see any way around limiting what they eat until I get the give-away plates sorted out.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

But if the kids eat all the cookies, I won't have any left to give away! I don't see any way around limiting what they eat until I get the give-away plates sorted out.

I agree. I bake to give away too, and I'd be annoyed if someone was eating what was intended for gifts.

It doesn't sound at all like the OP intends to not let her children have any cookies, just that she wants to get what she has to done first.

 

[LJC1861]

I totally understand what the original poster is saying. I also bake for gifts. I also like to know what cookies are on what plates. What I have started doing is baking all of one kind at a time. Then as they are cooled I put them into groups to represent each plate I am going to give. I always include a "family" group. Everyone now knows that when that group is gone, they are gone, and there is NO touching any other group of cookies. They also know that I always make sure there are cookies for them, and that their group of cookies is generally bigger than any of the give away groups as well.

I LOVE baking, and baking for gifts. My friends and family seem to enjoy receiving them as well.

Linda

 

[java]

Here's a rolling tip- with your dough don't chill it first- Put a piece of wax paper down- put a ball of your SOFT just mixed dough down- put another piece of wax paper on top- roll away Lay flat in fridge to chill-

No additional flour goes into your dough and it's way easier to get those cookies off the wax paper after you cut them.

I make adult non-kid appealing cookies to give away. It just makes my life easier. And then I make my butter cookie cut outs for them to go hog wild on. It's a Christmas tradition. I'd rather them remember chowing down on my cookies than me shooing them away from the plate.

 

[ElizK]

Our chocolate chip cookies are all gone already. They're DH's favorite. I bought more chocolate chips, so if DD14 wants to make more today she can.

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is making sugar cookies. They are usually made on the 23rd, and then we decorate them as a family on the 24th. YUM! It's the icing that makes them so yummy... nothing but powdered sugar and either lemon juice or lime juice.

 

[MELSMICE]

d then I make my butter cookie cut outs for them to go hog wild on. It's a Christmas tradition. I'd rather them remember chowing down on my cookies than me shooing them away from the plate.

This was kind of my point. I would rather make a ton of extra (which I do) than have them remember that I always told them they couldn't eat the cookies!

I make tons of cookies for Christmas - probably over 60 dozen of assorted varieties so there's more than enough for anyone & everyone that wants some!

Good luck though, OP. It's tough to limit cookies when I'm sure their delicious & your family wants to devour them!

 

[Luv Bunnies]

The idea was to keep them from eating off the plates I was building for the neighbors, not to deprive them of cookies all together. They had already eaten many, many cookies each so I had to cut them off until I could get them sorted out. Even if I wasn't going to give the cookies away, I would have cut them off at that point since they had eaten too many and hadn't even had dinner yet.

 

[MELSMICE]

The idea was to keep them from eating off the plates I was building for the neighbors, not to deprive them of cookies all together. They had already eaten many, many cookies each so I had to cut them off until I could get them sorted out. Even if I wasn't going to give the cookies away, I would have cut them off at that point since they had eaten too many and hadn't even had dinner yet.

Oh..........then they were just being normal kids!!!!!