Cookie swaps

[Anonymous]

What's a normal number to ask each person to bring? My church says to bring 5 dozen. I thought the point was to get to try some different kinds without having to spend a whole weekend baking different varieties! 5 dozen is at least 3 different batches! Am I off base or is this a ton?

[Anonymous]

That’s a ton. Or make a double batch of a single kind of cookie if you must so you end up with 3-4 dozen. But bringing five dozen cookies is a lot.

[Anonymous]

Do you even want 5 dozen cookies at the end? That’s so many.

[Anonymous]

Just double a recipe and bring what it makes, will probably be 4-5 dozen. Nobody is going to be counting at the door how many are on your plate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you even want 5 dozen cookies at the end? That’s so many.

Some of them are to be given to older members at a retirement home, so I assume we will come home with fewer than we bring, but it still seems like too much to me.

So far we have one recipe in a 13x9 pan that I can cut into 24 cookie bars, and a batch of 3 dozen tiny rolled cookies. Feels a little ungenerous to bring mostly small ones but not sure if I'll have time to make another batch tonight. Whew.

[Anonymous]

If you do it as an event, they usually put 1-2 dozen out to eat there and redistribute the other 3 dozen into the take home containers for the people who brought cookies. I would just double batch your recipe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you even want 5 dozen cookies at the end? That’s so many.

Some of them are to be given to older members at a retirement home, so I assume we will come home with fewer than we bring, but it still seems like too much to me.

So far we have one recipe in a 13x9 pan that I can cut into 24 cookie bars, and a batch of 3 dozen tiny rolled cookies. Feels a little ungenerous to bring mostly small ones but not sure if I'll have time to make another batch tonight. Whew.

What's done is done, but if you were that concerned about the quantity wouldn't it have been easier to just double the recipe that makes 3 dozen? Then you would have easily had 5 dozen and you wouldn't have had to make them tiny.

[Anonymous]

Making small cookies is a good thing. This time of year everyone wants a taste of things, not to scarf down some huge crumbl-type thing. Most drop cookies. Are at least 36. - use a smaller scoop and you are really close..

[Anonymous]

The original Nestle toll house cookies recipe makes a batch of 5 dozen.

[Anonymous]

I am going to one and each person is bringing a dozen cookies, so we will each come home with one dozen. That doesn't seem like much to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you even want 5 dozen cookies at the end? That’s so many.

Some of them are to be given to older members at a retirement home, so I assume we will come home with fewer than we bring, but it still seems like too much to me.

So far we have one recipe in a 13x9 pan that I can cut into 24 cookie bars, and a batch of 3 dozen tiny rolled cookies. Feels a little ungenerous to bring mostly small ones but not sure if I'll have time to make another batch tonight. Whew.

What's done is done, but if you were that concerned about the quantity wouldn't it have been easier to just double the recipe that makes 3 dozen? Then you would have easily had 5 dozen and you wouldn't have had to make them tiny.

It was only supposed to make two dozen tiny cookies (tea spoon sized balls!) per the recipe. I followed directions and got 3 dozen of the small cookies after baking the bars, so yeah, what's done is done. At least they look a little bigger after baking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The original Nestle toll house cookies recipe makes a batch of 5 dozen.

Good to know for the future, thanks. I don't think they're the best chocolate chip cookies out there but sometimes quantity matters.

[Anonymous]

That's nuts. We did three dozen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you even want 5 dozen cookies at the end? That’s so many.

Some of them are to be given to older members at a retirement home, so I assume we will come home with fewer than we bring, but it still seems like too much to me.

So far we have one recipe in a 13x9 pan that I can cut into 24 cookie bars, and a batch of 3 dozen tiny rolled cookies. Feels a little ungenerous to bring mostly small ones but not sure if I'll have time to make another batch tonight. Whew.

Just make two batches of your 13x9 pan and cut them small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you even want 5 dozen cookies at the end? That’s so many.

Some of them are to be given to older members at a retirement home, so I assume we will come home with fewer than we bring, but it still seems like too much to me.

So far we have one recipe in a 13x9 pan that I can cut into 24 cookie bars, and a batch of 3 dozen tiny rolled cookies. Feels a little ungenerous to bring mostly small ones but not sure if I'll have time to make another batch tonight. Whew.

Just make two batches of your 13x9 pan and cut them small.

Yeah that'll be a good plan for next time. Need more m&ms though.