Foodathon: Shopping

It's done...ish.  Tomorrow we're going to the huge discount liquor store, to get rum for the kahlua and rumballs, but otherwise, we *seem* to be done.  I have to say seem, because you know, it's never accurate.  Inevitably, I will have forgotten some piddly thing, or miscalculated.

The final list of stuff going into buckets:
Chocolate chip M&M cookies
Triple Ginger Molasses cookies
*Soft lemon sugar cookies
Rum balls
*Cappuccino fudge
Cookies and Cream fudge

Homemade Kahlua to a lucky few

*new recipes for this year.  The lemon cookies are standing in for the snickerdoodles, and the cappuccino fudge is standing in for the amaretto and rocky road.

I wanted to also include coconut macaroons, dipped in chocolate, but Irv is hesitant, he thinks lots of people hate coconut.  He's silly.  I'm making one batch anyway, even if I eat them all myself.

So, the shopping haul looks like this:

15 lbs of flour
10 lbs of sugar
12 cans condensed milk
16 lbs of chocolate chips
6 lbs of white chocolate
6 lbs brown sugar
6 jars of molasses
3 lbs of lemons
3 lbs confectioner's sugar
6 boxes of vanilla wafers
4 lbs holiday colored m&ms
4 lbs butter (I know we're gonna run out. I really just know it)
36 eggs
1 gallon of rum
3 lbs raw sugar
misc. amounts of various extracts, powdered ginger, fresh ginger, candied ginger, dark cocoa, espresso powder, regular instant coffee, nutmeg, cinnamon, corn syrup

Also:  27 large and small tins and buckets
500 sheets of white tissue paper
2 rolls of parchment
6 cookie sheets
6 cooling racks
miles and miles of plastic wrap

Should be fun.

Tomorrow, if luck and all that shit is on my side, I will start making doughs.  Tomorrow night is one batch of each dough, just to make sure everything's going well.  I might make up the rum balls all together tomorrow, if time permits.  They need to hang out for a week to mellow.  If time *really* permits, I'll do all the chocolate chip cookies tomorrow.

Jasper's all like "get your shit out of my bed, this sucks"

That was a quick picture, of all of it gathered together in the living room. You don't see most of it, because it's hidden in the bags alongside the cube.  Irv brought more stuff in after I took the pic.