I'm a machine.

A baking machine.

This weekend, I never even left the house. My baking marathon actually began on Thursday. When I got home from work, I baked a cake to make cupcake bites, and also made sugar cookie dough. All before heading out the door to kickboxing!

I continued after work on Friday. Baked another cake for cupcake bites, made royal icing for sugar cookies, then made and coated all of my cupcake bites.

Saturday, we started off the morning making a meat sauce for lasagna. We put it on early so it could simmer all day.

Then I rolled out and baked sugar cookies, colored all of my icing, then spent a long chunk of time decorating. I had to stop around 4:30 p.m. because we were expecting my in-laws for dinner and the house was still a mess and I hadn't even showered. Oh, and we still had to put together the lasagna!

Once my in-laws arrived, I did get a little reprieve from all of the work. We entertained and enjoyed the company. (Tessa did, too. She was particularly fond of my father-in-law.)

This morning, I was up and at 'em again. Peanut butter cup cookies, macaroons, and a bit more decorating. Packaging, wrapping, tying ribbon. I pretty much worked nonstop until 8:00 p.m. tonight.

Whoa. It's been a lot of baking. A lot of work.

I'll be posting more of my work and another recipe or two over the next couple of days. But for now... this is the cookie platter that my husband is taking with him to work for a potluck lunch tomorrow. Sugar cookie cutouts, macaroons, the peanut butter cup cookies, and cupcake bites. Quite the variety.

P.S. The lighting for all of my photos is just a crying shame. Unfortunately, I didn't get everything done until after dark and couldn't wait until morning to pack everything up. So, oh well. But I do apologize for such crappy photos.