Comments on: Wanted: Bake Sale Recipes

By: Because you are on the edge of your seats… : whoorl

Because you are on the edge of your seats… : whoorl — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:59:10 +0000

[...] Did I mention that when it comes to bake sale recipes, I’m set for the next 60 years? Thanks to you and you and you, next time I need to bake something, I am going to use random.org to pick the next recipe from your comments. [...]

By: S

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:41:37 +0000

I think I’m pass the cut-off here, but I’ve got two recipes that will make you THE HIT of any bake sale, Sour Cream Brownies and Coconut Macaroons.

Macaroons are the easiest, they have two ingredients: coconut and sweetened condensed milk.

14 oz unsweetened shredded coconut
2 cans sweetened condensed milk
Semi-sweet chips for garnish, if so desired

Mix together and using a cookie scoop, plonk onto cookie sheets lined with parchment paper (a must!). Bake @ 350 until lightly browned on the outside, about 15 – 20 min. They will be a little splodgy in the middle, but that’s what you want. Allow to cool completely. If you want to chocolate them up, nuke some chocolate chips until nice & melty (but not scorchy) and dip cookies into the chocolate. Let set back on the parchment.

Easy and good. I had a Sous Chef that COULD NOT control himself when these were around.

Easiest damn brownies: Sour Cream Brownies

12 oz butter (3 sticks unsalted)
1 C Cocoa powder — the darker the better

3 eggs
2.5 C sugar
1 TBSP vanilla extract

2/3 C sour cream

1 C AP Flour
1/2 tsp salt

Get out your trusty 9 x 13 pan. Line with heavy foil and spray with pan spray. Melt your butter and stir in the cocoa. Set aside. In a standing mixer, throw in the eggs, sugar and vanilla. Using the whip attachment, whip the crap out of it, or at least until it’s light in colour. Add the butter/cocoa mixture. Whip. Add sour cream. Whip. Throw in flour and salt and mix mix mix. Dump into pan and smooth out. Bake @ 350 for 30 – 40 min or until a toothpick stuck in the middle comes out clean.

They’re fab and can be adjusted to your flavour whims. Want orange? Add the zest of two oranges to your butter. Mexican? Add cinnamon, allspice and cayenne to the flour. Mint? Chop up a handful of mint and throw it in. Extra chocolaty? A handful of chopped bittersweet chocolate added at the end is divine.

Good luck and happy baking!

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:31:48 +0000

These are my mother-in-law’s Aunt Margaret’s Molasses Crinkle Cookies, and they are DIVINE! Soft and chewy on the inside with a sugar coated outside, they are dark and rich and sweet, and, a bonus for a bake sale, have no nuts or chocolate! Plus, they are extremely easy and quick to put together. My boys, ages 9, 7, and 5, can’t get enough of them!

Ingredients:
3/4 c. butter, softened
1 c. brown sugar
1/4 molasses
1 egg
2 1/4 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
Granulated sugar for rolling

Cream the butter, brown sugar, molasses, and egg. Combine all the dry ingredients and then add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and mix together. Roll into balls the size of a ping pong ball and then roll into the sugar. Plop onto a parchment paper covered baking sheet and flatten slightly. (These will spread a bit when baking) Bake in a 325 degree oven for 8 minutes only, as I am told that this is the key to the soft and chewy insides. Let cool a minute or two on the pan, then shovel carefully onto a paper sack or paper towels to cool completely. Enjoy!

Best of luck with the bake sale! I am sure that whatever you decide will turn out wonderfully!! If you can turn out those amazing pumpkin brownies, then a bake sale item will be a piece of cake. Possibly literally. Mwahaha!