Alright, let's cut to the chase. Don't even bother trying to deny it, you and I both know that when you're making Christmas cookies (or any cookies for that matter), you lick the bowl when you're done. Or if not that than the spoon or the mixers. Or if not that than all of the above. Raw cookie dough is just so amazing to eat and despite numerous health warnings telling us how bad raw eggs and such are for you, we all do it. I like to look at it this way: in the original Rocky movie, when Rocky is training he drinks a cup of raw eggs. A cup! Of raw eggs! Although he did (SPOILER ALERT) lose the match at the end to Apollo, so maybe eggs were to blame for that. But eating raw eggs sure didn't kill him, as evidenced by him going on to make five more movies.
Where am I going with all of this? Well, assuming that you're not planning on fighting Apollo Creed anytime soon, I don't see what the big deal is in eating cookie dough with raw eggs in it. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that raw cookie dough is almost better than baked cookies. I mean, which is more popular, cookie dough ice cream or cookie ice cream?
So Green Tip #59 is this: Don't Bake Your Christmas Cookies. As amazing as cookie dough is, I'm sure that nobody will complain when you serve them lumps of cold cookie dough shaped into snowmen and Christmas trees (or the Presidential Seal if you want to continue with yesterday's fantasy). Not only will this save you the time it takes to bake all of your cookies, this will cut down on the amount of gas or electricity that it takes you to run your oven.
So think about Mother Nature this year before you stick those cookies into the oven. Hm, actually that gives me an idea. What if Rocky opens a bakery in the seventh Rocky movie? I'll have to talk to MGM about that....
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