Cookies and Cake Balls Oh My

I'm just a wife & mom who likes to bake & cook (hate to clean up tho but no one else is going to do it that's for sure)
I started posting everything I was making on Facebook and an old friend asked me to bake for her daughters baby shower! I was thrilled but it was one of the most stressful things! You know how you can make something a hundred times but soon as you have to you just know something will go wrong! Baking isn't something you can do in advance so I just planned out my week and went with it on a wing & a prayer! I wanted everything to be as fresh as possible of course. Some of it I could freeze, some I knew stayed fresh longer than others etc so I had a plan! Oh I should mention what I was making ~ 100 cake balls, 100 "thin mints", 100 M&M cookies and 200 oatmeal cookies with filling!
This was back in January before this little blog idea entered my empty head I have pictures but they aren't great ... sorry about that!

 

This is 200 oatmeal cookies!!

I only bake 12 cookies at a time ... I need to get over that if I'm ever going to do this again!

 

 

This is one of the little cuties with pink filling put together

 

 

These are my version of cake balls ... not round and not on a stick ... can I still call them cake balls? Oh well, that's what I call them! These are better, they won't roll around and no need to find a place for the stick when your done!!

They are my cake version of chocolate covered cherries! YUM!

 

 

 

These are my super simple "thin mints" ~ the plan was to drop the heart in the center of each one but of course I dropped the first one and it landed on the side like this and I thought it actually looked a lot better so I went with it!

 

The last cookie I didn't get a picture of but it was just a M&M cookie

using pink & white M&M's ...

Thank goodness Valentine's day was coming up.

 

 

 

 

The cookies for the baby shower were given out like this ... I just boxed everything up for her but was happy she shared what she did!!

 ~OH and her daughter did have a baby girl and

 she is beautiful!!

 

I will post these recipes soon!! Oh and the other day I had another friend ask me to bake cookies for her! She is having a combination birthday party & graduation party for her two son's! That order is for about 600 cookies!

Bring it on ...