The Yum Yum Factor

It's that time again, time for   Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap    ! Do you have any idea how much pressure it is to bake cookies for three other food bloggers? When you are baking for your kid's teacher, your mom, your neighbour's and your mailman, you can make simple, delicious cookies. You can whip up ginger snaps, shortbread and sugar cookies and everyone is thrilled. You can't send a delicious, simple shortbread to three other food bloggers though because they can do that themselves. That would be like making strawberry freezer jam for Martha Stewart. It is certainly tasty but it just won't do.  I spent the week thinking I was going to make Cardamom spiced palmiers until I realized that those are not the best cookies to be mailing out. They really are best eaten in the first couple of days so what would happen if the package was lost or delayed? What if the palmiers showed up all stale and horrible? I am already in trouble over the whole Marcella Haza...