Ana's school is having a bake sale Thursday to coincide with Parent-Teacher Night.

[conuly]

I'm baking!

But what am I baking?

I was going to bake mint chocolate brownies, so as to irritate Lizziey when I posted about it (yes, I'm a mean Connie), but they didn't have what I needed at the store. Now I am the one irritated. I'd blame karma, but I didn't even do anything yet, and it's just not fair!

So my current list includes:

Double chocolate chip cookies (definitely - must buy more chocolate chips probably)

Possibilities:

Pepper cookies (maybe. depends on how willing I am to shell out for almond paste or, alternatively, crack and grind my own almonds)
Lavender cookies? (A half batch if I do.)
Cinnamon refrigerator cookies? (Fridge smell is a worry)
Oatmeal cookies? (They always scream "healthy", though, and who wants healthy?_
Blondies? Those'd be for me!
Garlic cookies? (No, probably not, but I love mentioning them. If you forget that they're insane, they're not half bad.)
Carrot cupcakes? (Mmm... I was gonna make them with ricotta, but I forget to get, and the buffalo milk ricotta guy isn't back at Union Square until FRIDAY, so I'd have to use cream cheese, and while that *is* more for me - that is, the school - it doesn't exactly scream fair, now does it?)
Gingerbread letters (if I have all my letter cookie cutters, otherwise it'd be gingerbread something elses)

And I'm getting my friend Kimberly to make marshmallows. If they make it to the school, it'll be a miracle. Those things are delicious. (I'm working hard to convince her to send her kids to the school next year and the year after. I have to call her and remind her that pre-k registration has a due date.)

Clearly I'm not making four different types of cookies. That would be absurd. And barely do-able. (Okay, it's not so clear, because left to my own devices I'd probably drown the school in cookies!) Which ones should I make, though? Does anybody have any other ideas? I'm making the chocolate chip cookies to sell, and the other one more for fun, so it doesn't matter if it's a little weird because, dammit, I'm gonna enjoy myself! (If I really want to enjoy myself, I'd better get a second bag of chocolate chips. *sigh* I'll run out later tonight, get some freezer bags as well.)

[Poll #1366087]

Edit: I'm a dolt. When answering the poll, the second question? DO NOT PICK CHOCOLATE CHIP. They're a given. I'm too lazy to do a new poll, so just avoid that answer.

Comments

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I submit a specific type of oatmeal cookie my mother frequently made: Swedish Oatmeal cookies (http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/ubbs/archive/ETHNIC_misc/Swedish_Oatmeal_Cookies.html).

The only difference between my mother's recipe and that is the topping. She only sprinkled powdered sugar on top, and that was enough to tell my small-child-brain "DELICIOUS COOKIE" instead of "yeck, healthy thing."

...Also, her recipe makes 75 or so, but that's okay. They freeze fantastically well, and are a wonderful crunchychewy when cold.

[conuly]

Well, 75 for parent teacher night sounds just fine. There's 24 students in Ana's class. Assuming the other classes are similar, and half the parents show up, and it's only one kid per parent...

Yeah, 75 would be fine.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Then if you double that recipe, you'd be set!

We also found we got a slightly better texture on the cookie if we stuck the dough in the fridge for 20~30 minutes before baking it, but that's totally optional.

[conuly]

Other people are bringing baked goods as well. Trying to make a cookie per person is absurd, and I'm not doing it. 75 would be fine.

[conuly]

I could even make the cookies a little smaller, and get more that way, rather than doubling the recipe :)

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

That works, too! :)

I only mentioned doubling the recipe because the one I linked only makes about 40 cookies, but if you're making small cookies, that doesn't matter, does it? XD

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Where did we get the idea that healthy=yuck anyway? Nobody ever has to be urged to "eat your chocolate, it's full of antioxidants", do they?

Maybe if we did that more often (pointing out the "healthy" aspect of foods kids like), they wouldn't automatically reject out of hand foods billed as healthy.

[conuly]

Actually, they do. Mostly because they have a guilt complex about chocolate.

However, with that said, oatmeal cookies aren't delicious enough to stand on their own. They just taste wholesome. Not yummy. Just healthy. Not yucky either, mind, but plain healthy.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Um, well, actually, *I* think they do. (At least, the version on the quaker oats box lid.) They're rich with butter and brown sugar and moist with fat raisins (substitute fruit of your choice, I've had wonderful oatmeal cookies made with snipped dried apricots), and then there's just a trace of cinnamon.

[conuly]

You and I will simply have to disagree, then.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I often wonder that myself. I know that as a kid I loved peas (which are pretty healthy!) and i never associated them with "healthy" until I went to a friend's place, and her mother reminded us to eat our peas "they're good for you." Somehow, that made peas magically "yuck" and i refused to eat them for a long time.

I half wonder if a lot of the healthy = yuck association comes from a certain sense of rebellion. (It often did for me.)

[masterflare421.livejournal.com]

Garlic cookies actually sound pretty interesting. Maybe more cracker-ish than sweet though. Depends on what goes into them. But anyway, I pick blondies as the food you should go with just because I rarely see them for sale. In fact have never eaten one, as much as I might like to try one. Maybe I am the one who should make some instead. :P

[conuly]

No, not crackerish. They're definitely a sweet cookie, you can barely taste the garlic.

YOU HAVE NEVER EATEN A BLONDIE????? OMG! YOU MUST REMEDY THAT RIGHT NOW! GO! HIE YOURSELF TO THE STORE! THEN TO THE KITCHEN! BAKE BLONDIES! LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED UPON IT!!!!!!!!

True story: When my sister and I were kids, and went to skating once a week, we'd stop and pick up a treat on the way. She generally got blondies, and I got brownies to be "fair" to the baked goods, and also to match it up with hair color, as she was blond and my hair was brown.

But I liked (and still like) blondies better. So I'd offer to trade bites. And she'd agree. She would take a normal sized bite of mine, and then I'd turn around and take this HUGE-ASS BITE out of hers. EVERY TIME.

And she'd get annoyed, but she never did seem to catch on!

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

If you're only going to make one kind, I'd suggest either the garlic cookies, the carrot cupcakes, or the pepper cookies, along with a joke. Something to say that eating vegetables doesn't HAVE to be bad, or maybe vampire jokes for the garlic cookies.

[conuly]

I'm making two kinds, minimum: Chocolate chip, and something else.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I was going to bake mint chocolate brownies, so as to irritate Lizziey when I posted about it (yes, I'm a mean Connie)


*mumbles about people who only ate a couple slices of their from scratch chocolate mint birthday cake*

Also: *sips half chocolate/half shamrock shake from McD's*


SO THERE.

*thinks of the marshmallow chocolate ice cream in the fridge...*

[conuly]

Lizziey! ANSWER THE POLL!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

*answered*

Seriously, I think Pear Ginger Muffins sound interesting enough to get people to buy them without scaring them off a la Lavender Cookies or Garlic or Pepper.

[conuly]

Pear Ginger Muffins are delish, and I must share the recipe with you one day.

Only thing is the recipe doesn't make that many, and isn't a friend to doubling. Hm...

I wonder though... maybe I can modify the recipe to make pear ginger *bread* and just slice it up?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

That sounds like it would work.


And yes, plz2b sharing recipe!

[marveen.livejournal.com]

If the oatmeal cookies are made as per the recipe given out by that old quaker, they have so much butter in them that they can't possibly be healthy.

Although I think the whole raisin d'etre* of oatmeal cookies is as a vehicle for plump, tangy raisins.

Also, the fridge odor shouldn't affect your refrigerator cookies if you wrap the dough tightly enough.

*Badumpbump.

[conuly]

1. BAD PUN! BAD! NO COOKIES FOR YOU!

2. I loathe raisins in cookies. LOATHE, I say. LOATHE.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I submit a specific type of oatmeal cookie my mother frequently made: Swedish Oatmeal cookies (http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/ubbs/archive/ETHNIC_misc/Swedish_Oatmeal_Cookies.html).

The only difference between my mother's recipe and that is the topping. She only sprinkled powdered sugar on top, and that was enough to tell my small-child-brain "DELICIOUS COOKIE" instead of "yeck, healthy thing."

...Also, her recipe makes 75 or so, but that's okay. They freeze fantastically well, and are a wonderful crunchychewy when cold.

[conuly]

Well, 75 for parent teacher night sounds just fine. There's 24 students in Ana's class. Assuming the other classes are similar, and half the parents show up, and it's only one kid per parent...

Yeah, 75 would be fine.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Then if you double that recipe, you'd be set!

We also found we got a slightly better texture on the cookie if we stuck the dough in the fridge for 20~30 minutes before baking it, but that's totally optional.

[conuly]

Other people are bringing baked goods as well. Trying to make a cookie per person is absurd, and I'm not doing it. 75 would be fine.

[conuly]

I could even make the cookies a little smaller, and get more that way, rather than doubling the recipe :)

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

That works, too! :)

I only mentioned doubling the recipe because the one I linked only makes about 40 cookies, but if you're making small cookies, that doesn't matter, does it? XD

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Where did we get the idea that healthy=yuck anyway? Nobody ever has to be urged to "eat your chocolate, it's full of antioxidants", do they?

Maybe if we did that more often (pointing out the "healthy" aspect of foods kids like), they wouldn't automatically reject out of hand foods billed as healthy.

[conuly]

Actually, they do. Mostly because they have a guilt complex about chocolate.

However, with that said, oatmeal cookies aren't delicious enough to stand on their own. They just taste wholesome. Not yummy. Just healthy. Not yucky either, mind, but plain healthy.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Um, well, actually, *I* think they do. (At least, the version on the quaker oats box lid.) They're rich with butter and brown sugar and moist with fat raisins (substitute fruit of your choice, I've had wonderful oatmeal cookies made with snipped dried apricots), and then there's just a trace of cinnamon.

[conuly]

You and I will simply have to disagree, then.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I often wonder that myself. I know that as a kid I loved peas (which are pretty healthy!) and i never associated them with "healthy" until I went to a friend's place, and her mother reminded us to eat our peas "they're good for you." Somehow, that made peas magically "yuck" and i refused to eat them for a long time.

I half wonder if a lot of the healthy = yuck association comes from a certain sense of rebellion. (It often did for me.)

[masterflare421.livejournal.com]

Garlic cookies actually sound pretty interesting. Maybe more cracker-ish than sweet though. Depends on what goes into them. But anyway, I pick blondies as the food you should go with just because I rarely see them for sale. In fact have never eaten one, as much as I might like to try one. Maybe I am the one who should make some instead. :P

[conuly]

No, not crackerish. They're definitely a sweet cookie, you can barely taste the garlic.

YOU HAVE NEVER EATEN A BLONDIE????? OMG! YOU MUST REMEDY THAT RIGHT NOW! GO! HIE YOURSELF TO THE STORE! THEN TO THE KITCHEN! BAKE BLONDIES! LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED UPON IT!!!!!!!!

True story: When my sister and I were kids, and went to skating once a week, we'd stop and pick up a treat on the way. She generally got blondies, and I got brownies to be "fair" to the baked goods, and also to match it up with hair color, as she was blond and my hair was brown.

But I liked (and still like) blondies better. So I'd offer to trade bites. And she'd agree. She would take a normal sized bite of mine, and then I'd turn around and take this HUGE-ASS BITE out of hers. EVERY TIME.

And she'd get annoyed, but she never did seem to catch on!

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

If you're only going to make one kind, I'd suggest either the garlic cookies, the carrot cupcakes, or the pepper cookies, along with a joke. Something to say that eating vegetables doesn't HAVE to be bad, or maybe vampire jokes for the garlic cookies.

[conuly]

I'm making two kinds, minimum: Chocolate chip, and something else.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I was going to bake mint chocolate brownies, so as to irritate Lizziey when I posted about it (yes, I'm a mean Connie)


*mumbles about people who only ate a couple slices of their from scratch chocolate mint birthday cake*

Also: *sips half chocolate/half shamrock shake from McD's*


SO THERE.

*thinks of the marshmallow chocolate ice cream in the fridge...*

[conuly]

Lizziey! ANSWER THE POLL!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

*answered*

Seriously, I think Pear Ginger Muffins sound interesting enough to get people to buy them without scaring them off a la Lavender Cookies or Garlic or Pepper.

[conuly]

Pear Ginger Muffins are delish, and I must share the recipe with you one day.

Only thing is the recipe doesn't make that many, and isn't a friend to doubling. Hm...

I wonder though... maybe I can modify the recipe to make pear ginger *bread* and just slice it up?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

That sounds like it would work.


And yes, plz2b sharing recipe!

[marveen.livejournal.com]

If the oatmeal cookies are made as per the recipe given out by that old quaker, they have so much butter in them that they can't possibly be healthy.

Although I think the whole raisin d'etre* of oatmeal cookies is as a vehicle for plump, tangy raisins.

Also, the fridge odor shouldn't affect your refrigerator cookies if you wrap the dough tightly enough.

*Badumpbump.

[conuly]

1. BAD PUN! BAD! NO COOKIES FOR YOU!

2. I loathe raisins in cookies. LOATHE, I say. LOATHE.