When living in Illinois there were a few churches that would have an annual Christmas Cookie sale. Periodically I would go and buy some cookies. One Christmas, my husband and 2 adult daughters decided to have a cookie 'cook off'. Our 'teams' consisted of Dad/Daughter and Mom/Daughter. My husband LOVES to cook and bake.....I, on the other hand, would prefer not too. So the date was set for the cook off. Each team went to a different houses to bake, and cookies were to be brought out on Christmas Eve. A couple of weeks prior to the cook-off the daughter that was on my team (she doesn't like to bake either) and I went to the churches cookie sale. We bought a few dozen of 3 different cookies, that we thought we could have made. On the cook-off morning we had fun just hanging out...when we were to be baking. Christmas eve, all cookies were brought out. Our church bought cookies looked so nice on the 'familiar' family Christmas plate. The rest of the family members were amazed that the non-bakers of the family had baked some cookies that were really good!....Of course, it wasn't long that we couldn't keep the secret . It was great fun 'baking' for everyone and bringing a good laugh to all.
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