Like a Good Preschool Mother, I have offered my services for an upcoming bake sale.
Hmmm. What do I make? I would totally do the pumpkin brownie thing, but I don’t think the consistency will hold up well. (They want the items in plastic bags tied up with ribbons.)
Do you have an absolutely fantastic recipe for cookies, brownies or bars? Please help, as I desperately want the school moms and teachers to liiiiiiiike meeeeeeeee.
(Especially since Wito had a little accident involving poop remnants at school yesterday. Which was beyond mortifying. THE SITUATION IS DIRE, YO.)
Becky
October 8, 2009 at 6:52 pmI made these cookies this week and I can’t stop eating them. Seriously, so good. (I substituted Trader Joe’s mini choc-pb cups in place of chopped up reese’s). I’m warning you, wrap them up immediately and place them far, far out of your sight.
http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/peanut-butter-cup-cookies-00000000021356/index.html
Michelle
October 9, 2009 at 1:55 pmI am SHOCKED that with 60 replies that no one has mentioned the absolute best bakesale item ever. Hello Dollies or Magic Bars {Not THOSE kind of magic bars!} They are truly the most amazing delish dessert ever. Then a few days ago I was over on the Picky Palate site and she added pumpkin to hers! Holy mother of all things good. I promise you if you make those they will FLY off the table.
.-= Michelle´s last blog ..Kiddie crack. Er… um educational TV watching for kids. =-.
Deidre
October 9, 2009 at 6:08 pmI’d recommend chocolate chip cookie bars. you make the recipe for chocolate chip cookies but instead of cookies put them in a brownie pan. Delish!
Pamela Wright
October 10, 2009 at 8:44 pmOmg, you’ve already had 62 comments. But if you haven’t decided yet, this is THE recipe. Ok, have you ever had a Girl Scout cookie, either a thin mint or a tagalong? This is the easiest thing and the biggest hit, I promise. Go to Michaels craft store, if you have one. Or go to a cake shop and buy a bag of dark chocolate and/or dark chocolate mint wafers that you melt down to make candy. Then buy a bag of Ritz crackers. If you want to make the mint thins, heat the chocolate in the micro, dip the crackers into it with a fork and then put them on a baking rack (God no, not tin foil!, learn from my mistakes!). If you want the tagalong, do the same, except use the dark chocolate and put peanut butter on the cracker before dipping. I’m not kidding, they will give Wito free tuition after tasting these cookies. And you can give me free hair products if you insist. Email me for more info. if you are interested.
Betty Crocker AKA Sarc. Journalist
October 11, 2009 at 3:30 pmRemember– most preschoolers will thumb noses at pumpkin anything. Look on a Rice Krispie box, make the Krispies and add in MNMs. You will be the hero of the bake sale.
I personally am a huge cupcake fan– but they don’t hold up very well in nice bags, do they??
PS. I have a desperate hair question. Need pic for hair Thursday! Except! I’m sick! And my hair is sick, too!
Shelley
October 15, 2009 at 3:31 amThese 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!
S
October 19, 2009 at 10:41 amI 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!