Cookies!!!
I'll probably still make oatmeal raisin cookies because I have such a gooooood recipe for them and my husband LOVES them, but what other kinds of cookies are good to make for this kind of endeavor (feeding lots of people in the hopes that the sugar overload will addle their thinking so they fork over big bucks)?
Suggestions greatly appreciated!
They come out super thin and while they are still hot you can put in a filling (like dates or mince) and flip them in half.
Also, you canjust leave them until they cool and layer them with jelly.
how about coconut macaroons? they are so incredibly easy but whenever I make them people are always really impressed like I did something amazing :)
There is a great recipe on the food network site, its either from Paula Deen or the Barefoot Contessa, I can't remember.
My husband looked at me as if I'd grown three heads and sprouted horns when I mentioned putting diced apples or butterscotch morsels (oatmeal scotties!) in oatmeal cookies instead of raisins. He didn't say anything; he just stared at me, stared, stared, stared, until I finally broke the silence with something about raisins. He was very good about saying, "Well, of COURSE oatmeal cookies have to have raisins, and only raisins, in them!," without uttering a word. (Gee, I like chocolate chips in mine; this is an abomination, according to him!!)
I set out early this morning to make pumpkin bread, but after mixing the dry ingredients, discovered I was out of pumpkin. I also didn't have enough rolled oats to make oatmeal cookies, and I really wanted to get SOMEthing baked right away.
So I found this recipe and made it with about half a teaspoon of vanilla and one teaspoon of almond extract, as one of the recipe reviewers suggested. OMG, are these goooooooooood!
Since the team colors are lime green and black, I dyed some sugar lime green and black and dipped the top of each dough ball into both sugars. It's too bad the lime green is so pale once it's on the cookie, and the black comes out kind of a dark purple after baking. At least the cookies taste good!
Since making the sugar cookies (OMG, are these gooooooooooood!!), I've been to the store which accounts for the bazillion or so oatmeal raisin cookies that have been or are being baked. Also the pumpkin bread.
Coconut macaroons .... I'll have to look for the recipe, but making them will be a dangerous endeavor, considering how much I like them!
santonacci, do you have a snickerdoodle recipe you like? I've never make snickerdoodles.
Lemon cookies are a good idea, too (though those are another type of cookie that, alas, I like entirely too well!) and I'm intrigued by the sour cream cookie idea. Spoiled_candy, might you have a recipe for them? I don't know that I'd make them for the fundraiser, but they sound like just the thing for my husband's birthday!
Original Post by athena_tavener:
santonacci, do you have a snickerdoodle recipe you like? I've never make snickerdoodles.
I've never met a snickerdoodle recipe I didn't like. There's a bunch in the CC database:
http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/search.php?s earch_type=recipes&searchpro=snickerdoodl e&x=58&y=17
And I got good results from this one:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/cookierecipe s/r/30408c.htm
On edit: Wow - your husband is a traditionalist, huh? He's never heart of Oatmeal Scotchies? Reminds me of my hubby who considers anything done to a plain cheesecake - addition of fruit or toppings, different flavors or swirls of any kind - to be a destruction of a perfectly good cheesecake. Which reminds me:
http://bakingsheet.blogspot.com/2006/01/chewy -cheesecake-cookies.html
These chocolate cookies are so good they are almost evil. I have had to give copies of the recipe out every time I make these.
http://caloriecount.about.com/recipe/73351.ht ml
They are easy to make (I ALWAYS double the recipe, because you might as well) but take a bit of time. The dough needs to chill in the fridge for a couple hours before you form it into logs and then it needs to sit in the freezer for at least a few hours (or as long as you want) before you slice and bake. I make a big batch, and keep logs in the freezer during the holidays. You slice and bake and you can have fresh cookies in 10 minutes.
Don't over bake them! They will not look quite done when they are ready to come out. They will have just lost their glossy sheen. You can also experiment with different nuts and I have had friends leave out the nuts altogether.
Good luck with all your baking!
Thanks, all, for the recipes; I've gained 10 pounds just reading them! :-D
I ended up making 11 dozen or so cookies in addition to pumpkin bread. I'm glad I made the oatmeal raisin cookies, as the other oatmeal cookies there were just that: oatmeal cookies, no raisins.
We had TONS of food, so much so that the team will be well-fed this weekend (they are working today and Monday), AND we fed the school's custodial staff and pep band, AND we went downstairs, sat outside the auditorium and sold food during the school musical's intermission after the fundraiser. ("Five cookies for a buck! Five cookies, one dollar! Two sandwiches for one dollar! Fifty cents a soda!") And we STILL had food left over! (It was good, too; Panera bread sandwiches and salads.) As much fun as this last part -- selling stuff at intermission -- was (it was wild!), unless someone makes a big donation in the coming days, the team lost money on the fundraiser, alas!
But the cookies were GREAT!!!
I've suggested that the team sell cookies and drinks at all school play intermissions. I think that will be one way they can raise money pretty easily.
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