Traditionally I've spent a day baking with my sister and Mom lots of Cookies and we always have the cut-out cookies ready for the kids to cut-out then decorate. I started doing this with my sister-in-law several years ago but our schedules got too busy to continue. Now I do something small with friends (who don't have the space) and I help my daughter's Girl Scout Troop. The Girl Scout Troop has a Cookie Camp-out every year. The girls submit a recipe and then bring the dry ingredients and over Friday evening and all day Saturday we bake those cookies. Each girl brings and empty decorated Tupperware/Rubbermaid style container and as the cookies cool we add them to each container. We highlight any girl with a food allergy so we know when to skip that box. Last year I spent all day Saturday in the kitchen helping the girls. Several of them had never baked before. It was so nice and I look forward to this years camp-out.

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