Cookie Girl

When Stefan got the coaching job at CAL I knew right away I was going to want to make cookies for the team. When he started his two years at UofL I always made cookies for his O-Line, Wide Receivers, Running Backs and some of the Defensive players. I looked forward to it every week and loved doing it. I just wish I could have done it for the whole team. I would give each player 7 cookies and Stefan would get 17 good luck cookies. Every game. Stefan's were different from the other players because he was special. I would make him peanut butter ritz cookies dipped in chocolate. Don't worry, he never ate all of them by himself. He would share some with his roommate. The night before home and away games he would spend the night with the team at a hotel and that is when he would hand out the cookies. I am sure he enjoyed that ;)

When I decided to bake cookies for CAL's football team I knew that I couldn't pick just starters like I did in college. And I knew I couldn't give them each 7 cookies. 54 players x 7 cookies = one CRAZY cookie girl. So, I decided to bake cookies for all 54 guys but they would get 2 cookies each. Of course, I had to add the coaching staff, trainers and some of the people Stefan work with. So we are talking about hmmm 75 bags. Which means I bake about 180ish cookies because Stefan always gets a whole batch to himself in his cookie jar =)

We came up with a rule that the team will only get cookies when they WIN! Luke really LOVED this rule! On Mondays is when I work on the tags. Printing them out, punching them out and putting the RED string through the holes. Then, the first week I decided to try and make my batches of cookie dough a head of time. I made all of the dough and stuck it in the fridge over night. Practice on Wednesdays is cut short because of Church. So, Wednesdays are my bake nights while Lukella have fun one on one time with their Dad...which usually involves playing tackle! Thursdays is when Lukella hand the cookies out to the team after their practice.
In college I just bought the rolls of Pillsbury cookie dough and baked. The players LOVED them and would always ask me for my recipe...and I would just tell them it was a secret ;) Stefan is a huge fan of chocolate chip cookies. I mean HUGE! My cousin, Mignon, told me about the Nestle Toll House recipe. Baked them once and ever since then it has been that homemade chocolate chip recipe in the Le4s house! But I always add a ton more of chocolate chips then what it calls for....mmmm!

Here is a picture of my packaged cookies for week 1! The package looked the same for week 2! But I have a different saying on the tags each game:

Week 1: "WON'T BE BEAT! Phil. 4:13 Good Luck!"

After we beat LCA a Mom of a player came up to me and told me how her son just loved my cookies. She said she then asked him if they were good as his Momma's and all he could say was "Mom, hers were REALLY good!". Bless her heart. I should have just told her I use the recipe on the back of the Nestle Toll House bag ;))

Since they won week 1 I made cookies for week 2. Tag said:

"PROTECT THIS HOUSE! Good Luck! Isaiah 40:31"

For week two I did not make my dough ahead of time and I was up from around 5:30 until midnight baking. Might go back to my routine of week 1 ;)

Here is sweet Ella handing out the bags to all of the players. She is waiting outside of the Coaches office for the players. So cute!


Now it has been a few weeks since I have baked them some cookies. I miss it. We need a WIN this Saturday so I can get to baking again. We play Saturday at 1 in Indiana. Then Saturday night at 7 is the big UofL vs. UK game in Lexington. This will be a fun football day and night. We are all so happy Honey and Poppy are here with us right now. We are all having tons of fun and tomorrow we are headed to the Zoo! We can't wait!

Hope everyone has had a Wonderful Wednesday!

Lots of Love,
The Le4s