2021 bakingpalooza with gottacatchemall was a success!

severely cut back this year and it was a great choice

that said, we did add in cranberry orange shortbread which came out amazing, which is extra shocking because we made them gluten free and vegan, and the recipe is meant to be neither of those things

we also made some sugar cookies sugar free, meaning we had four kinds of sugar cookie dough alone to work with, but we think they came out pretty well too!

the only "mishap" was that the margarine for the pfeffernusse was a little warmer than room temperature, which we believe was the main reason that we've now created our very own "flaternusse" cookies, but I've been told they're also yummy so that's not a complete loss then, really

idk what our final cookie count was but we made 13 platters with four (I think?) dietary restrictions to balance, so we had a lot going on lol

we also finished today at like 715 or something, which is probably at least 5 hours earlier than we ever have, so that's the real winner right there

(the real winner was Princess who was beyond elated to have tim over for the weekend)

wooooo cookie!