I recently tried parchment and liked it but wasn’t necessarily impressed…until today. I can use the worst of my cookie sheets with no worries. The bottoms of my cookies are perfect—no rough edges, no scraping, no burning. Better yet, I don’t have to wash sheets between batches or types. And I can lift the cookies off the cookie sheet onto the cooling racks while still on the parchment, let them cool a bit, take the cookies off the parchment, then re-use the parchment! It’s working so far anyway. Last time I used the parchment with cookies that needed greased sheets; this time I’m using it with cookies that need ungreased sheets, and it’s worked for both.

Yes, I can see this getting quite costly, especially since I’ll be cooking or baking almost every week once we’re financially stable, but I don’t care. Beats buying 4 new cookie sheets every year and having messed up cookies. I’m sure there are cookies and such where parchment isn’t such a good idea, but I’ll discover them when I stumble upon them.

We’re doing our cookie baking today. It’s a little late, but this year, because of finances, it’s only for family. I hope everyone else is having a wonderful Christmas Eve and has a wonderful Christmas and holiday season.