During the Memorial Day weekend activities, the Ladies Auxiliary to the Boalsburg Fire Company has a bake sale in the fire hall. The small carnival is held in the parking lot behind the fire hall and the firemen sell barbequed chicken. The fire hall room is available with tables and restrooms during those activities. What a perfect time for an assortment of baked goods to be available for sale in that room!
Over the last few days, my goal was to crank out some cookies for the sale. Of course, I don’t bake cookies very often…that seems to be Bert’s specialty at Christmas…but certainly I could produce something! Cookies for this bake sale needed to be sturdy enough to last in a zip bag that will get shuffled around for 5 days. I chose two recipes…oatmeal raisin cookies and snickerdoodles. You can use any favorite recipe you like!
It was quite obvious I don’t bake cookies very often. They were too big (who knew they would spread out so much!). I can see if I did this more often, I’d figure it out. I’m sure Bert would recommend more flour, chilled dough and smaller scoops of dough. I may try again today, but for now let me share how it went.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Here is the recipe:
Wet ingredients, dry ingredients and raisins ready to assemble. The mixer did all the work!
Of course, I don’t have a 2-Tablespoon scoop so my cookies look a little ragged! It’s on order so next time…
Of course, only two cookies fit in a sandwich bag. At least they look homemade!
Snickerdoodles
Here is the recipe I used:
Once again, the mixer did the work but when it came time to roll the dough into balls, I misjudged and they got too big! When was the last time I had a whole walnut sitting around to help me visualize the right size!
Oh well, I rolled the dough in cinnamon and sugar and put them on the cookie sheet.
Once again…too big! Oh well, they sure did taste good!
What Did I Learn?
Consider adding more flour to the oatmeal raisin cookies.
Chill the dough before baking.
Use a dough scoop to get better shaped cookies. (mine is on order!)
For bake sale cookies, make smaller, more consistent-sized cookies that will fit better in a zip sandwich bag.
If you are asked to make cookies for a bake sale, any contribution will be appreciated! Choose your favorite recipe and make a dozen or two.
Enjoy!