Cookie exchange

Last year in november I got an email from a friend of mine with an invitation for a cookie exchange party at her place.
She explained that everybody should bring one kind of cookie and to make sure there wouldn’t be any of them twice she sent a list where you could enrol your name and the sort of cookie you would bring. To make it a little bit more attractive she decided to make a brunch – cocktail party where we share the cookies.
I thaught it would be an extremely smart idea to make cocosmacarones because the dough is so easy and I hurried up to put my name on the list before someone else had the great idea.
In the invitation was written, that everybody should bring fifteen pieces per person.

I prepared to start to bake, it was Saturday and at that point I have to explain that the buisness hours in Switzerland are a little bit different than in the US. On Saturdays the stores are open till five pm and on Sunday closed. I read the email again and thaught that 15 pieces seemed to me a little bit frugal and determined to make 30 because I felt so generous:-)
When I looked into the ovenwindow I decided to call a friend who also would come to that party. While we were talking she moaned about her cookies she made (translated pig’s ears) and that she hadn’t enough place for all these cookies in her kitchen. I laughed about her and asked how big those pig’s ears were and she answered: “Why big the amount is the problem!“ Even then I couldn’t understand what the problem was, so she told me 15 pieses for EVERY member of the group and there were 15 persons on the list. We couldn’t talk after she told me that because we were both laughing so much. I totally misunderstood the email and only made 30 pieces and only because I felt generous - that would make two per person!

So I looked on my watch and it was 4:40 and I had only twenty minutes to got in the next supermarket. I arrived two minutes before the store closes and they were so kind to let me in.
The whole evening I was baking and cursing my soooo extremely “smart“ idea to make cocosmacarones. The dough is easy but to bring them in form you need two little spoons and that takes a lot of time. I asked my husband to help me but he seemed to be totally unable to make proper macaronesballs so I made them by myself.
The next morning at the cookie exchange party my friend told everybody about my generous geste to bring THIRTY cookies to the party and again everybody was laughing about me. Since then I have avoided to bake or even to eat those freaking cocosmacarones!