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Estes Park Cookie Madness

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Greetings from Estes Park!

It has become a tradition around our house (OK, it's MY tradition) to bake white chocolate chip/sun dried cranberry cookies for the holidays and pass them out to those near and dear to us. It started at the boys' elementary school the first year. Everyone loved them and requested them again. The list became a little longer the next year to include a few business friends, both Flash Electric and The Yellow Mailbox Real Estate. A few more cookies were needed the next year for helpers for my Good Samaritan Santa Party, then more customers, then relatives...

We are up to 100 dozen a year... 50 lbs of flour, 25 lbs of brown sugar, a case of eggs...a little elbow grease and a lot of love! Here's the recipe:

THE YELLOW MAILBOX CHRISTMAS COOKIES: 1 LB. BUTTER, 2C BROWN SUGAR, 1C WHITE SUGAR, 1 TSP SALT, 1 TSP BAKING SODA, 4 EGGS, 6C FLOUR, 2C WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS, 2C CRAISINS. MAKES 3 DOZEN. ROLL INTO 2 OZ BALLS, BAKE AT 325 DEGREES FOR 12 MINUTES. (IF YOU ARE AT 8000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL...)

Merry Christmas from Lisa at The Yellow Mailbox Real Estate Services in Estes Park!Estes Park Cookie Madness

Susan Brown
Keller Williams NE, Kingwood Texas (Humble & Atascocita too) - Kingwood, TX

Lisa - What a project!  The cookies look beautiful and I'll just be they taste as good as they look.  Thanks for sharing the recipe.  And for the reminder of baking at your altitude - since we are at sea level here.

Dec 21, 2009 03:20 PM
Tony & Darcy Cannon
Aubrey and Associates Realty - Layton, UT
The C Team

Lisa, that is a lot of cookies!  When do you start baking?  They look great!

Dec 21, 2009 04:39 PM
Graig Ponthier
Homes & Land of Greater San Antonio - San Antonio, TX

thats a bunch of cookies!!

Dec 21, 2009 05:02 PM
Mary Douglas
United Country Ponderosa Realty, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado - Red Feather Lakes, CO
REALTOR, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Good Grief Lisa, you should open a bakery! LOL!  They sound delicious, and I'm sure your customers/clients appreciate them.  I like this recipe because I know it's "high altitude"- thank you!

Dec 21, 2009 05:28 PM
Diane Daley
Caron's Gateway Real Estate - Northumberland, NH

Looks like you were having fun baking cookies... I have not even started yet... Tomorrow night for me...

Dec 22, 2009 08:20 AM