It turns out I lied. There aren’t 114 kinds. I miscounted. There are only 106 kinds. Dammit. For some reason, though that’s still a mountain of cookies, this error makes the whole project feel so much less significant. Maybe I’ll round it out with the recipes in her December magazine as well… there’s a chocolate-candy cane cookie in there that looks awesome.

Anyways, this weekend, for those who care (and you all do, right?), I hit number 63. Since there’s only 106 kinds, I have 43 to go. That’s nothin’.

To recap, the Chocolate Cherry Crumb Bars are effin’ fantastic. The Raspberry Cream Sandwiches were a huge hit at my cookie party. My sister thinks they taste like Trix and Captain Crunch mixed together. She’s right. The chocolate cookies in the Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies are a little too cakey for my liking, but the Lemon Squares were really, really great. More tart than most, which I like. The Spice Stars are hard as rocks (I think I cut ‘em too thick), but if you dip ‘em in tea, they’re really good. And the Chocolate Pistachio Cookies were a pain in the ass to make. As for how they taste, well, I can’t say. I haven’t tried one. But they were described as “intense.” My friend Patty ate two.