This is my last December as the Music Librarian at Furman University (I'm still working in the library but we hired a new music librarian to start in January) and this year I made some of my old favorites for all the student workers who cycle through shifts in the music library between 8 am and midnight. I always try to have snack bags put together by Study Day, that brief gap between classes and final exams. I rediscovered the holiday-themed takeout boxes I'd bought last year on post-holiday super-clearance sales at World Market, and decided they would be perfect for Study Day Treats.
All in all, 17 students cycle through the music library on a regular basis, and I had 15 boxes. I decided to give the two students who consistently take the 8 am shifts bigger containers with more treats. 8 am is rough! (Don't tell the others.)
Should we take a look inside? I tried for one piece of fudge and two of each cookie. My original plan of course included more, but at this point of the evening I had been making cookies for four hours and decided to call it good!
I posted this teaser picture to Instagram, knowing a few of my student workers follow me there. This is the peppermint fudge, which I made by making the usual fudge recipe but substituting peppermint oil for vanilla and using the peppermint morsels instead of the chocolate. In the end that meant half the chips were white chocolate, making the fudge milder in chocolate flavor than I would have liked, but it seemed to get better as it aged a bit. Luckily I had made this a few days in advance.
The cookies inside included:
By the way, we found out that the ginger cookies are just as good with chocolate chips added, but that variety was not included in the boxes.
LOVELY!
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