LadyGypsy's Cookie-Rama 2002!

Thank you
Firstly, thank you ALL for your support thru cookiecam. My dear grandmother died on November 22 -- a week before Thanksgiving. This Christmas season was very hard for us all, for MomMom was truly the center of our family. So to keep myself busy, I threw myself into cookiebaking. I wanted to accomplish what my own Mom did so many years ago when I was a child -- bake containers and containers of cookies to give to family and friends. And maybe, in a subconscious way, give honor to MomMom, who also would bake her way through every holiday.

I turned the webcam on me as a joke, and Cookiecam was born. I don't know how many people visited yet (because the people at BlueDomino, my webhost, haven't updated my stats since 12/15 -- and have yet to respond to my emails) but I know from my email that I reached family and friends, coworkers and strangers.

It turned out that I baked more than I ever had. I kept filling container after container of cookies. Even after giving cookies away at work, sending some off in the mail, and bringing trays to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinner, I have dozens left over. MomMom would have loved the After Dinner Mints (crumbly as though they were) and the Peanut Brittle. I'd like to think that she's smiling upon her geeky granddaughter who mixed some HTML code, a webcam, flour and butter, and ended up with something truly magical.

Final Cookie Tally
After Dinner Mints
Chocolate Chip Cookies (2)
Chocolate Crinkles (2)
Chocolate Molded Candy
Chocolate Spritz
Cookie Trees
Diamond Santas
Gingerbread people
Peanut Brittle (2)
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Cookies
Pizzelles (4)
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Oatmeal Scotchies
Snickerdoodles (2)
Spritz
Sugar Cutout cookies (3)

Recap
Click here if you want to read my day-by-day log of CookieRama 2002, or here if you want to read the story I wrote for the Courier-Post about my exploits