Tasty success

[primsong]

With especial thanks to piplover for the site that led to the bbq brownies and to everloyal and starbells for their help in making them - here are the results of our dessert auction contributions -  I wanted to do a third item that either looked more creative or was sugar-free but kind of went into a funk on Saturday and didn't get it done. Oh well - maybe next year!

First up, the wonderful Earl Grey Tea Cookies, a butter shortbread with orange zest and lots of real Earl Grey - I packaged them on vintage plates I picked up at an estate sale and they raised $36.00 for the youth at the auction:



and then the less photogenic 'Barbeque' brownies that we took from the idea in pip's link - of course the magazine ones looked a heck of a lot better, but these were huge, soft and tasty.  They raised about $40 at the auction, again by being split up onto vintage plates.


Thank you for all the ideas, ((((flist))))- now to go nibble at what we came home with instead, a cream-cheese bread, a cherry cheesecake and a mini banana bread loaf. Yum yum. We have way too many good cooks there.

Comments

[shirebound]

Awesome fund raisers! Good for you.

And ohhhhh, what you brought home makes my mouth water. Enjoy!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

We tried for a marionberry pie but after it passed $35 we decided to save up for a shot at the cream-cheese bread instead. ;-) This is so much more fun than selling magazines or washing cars.

[estellye.livejournal.com]

Those Earl Grey cookies look lovely! I'll have to give those a try! I just googled the recipe and the photo looks similar to yours, so it's probably the right one. It sounds as the the dessert auction was a great success.

I made cookies this week, but it was just the standard oatmeal, chocolate chip with walnuts. I wanted to bribe the troops at work because we had to move everything off the floor for a carpet cleaning this weekend, lol.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

They're really rich shortbread but VERY tasty - and the auction was a success with some ladies getting into bidding wars over the pies and cheese-breads. (Yes, that loaf of bread DID just go for $55.00...) I love it when it's for a good cause and everyone is into overpaying just to raise the money.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, those look yummy! I'm glad that site was able to give you some ideas! And I have to look up that recipe for those Earl Grey Tea Cookies, they look sooooo good!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Give them a try! We had the dough in rolls in the fridge overnight and then just sliced and baked them. Mmmm.

[clocketpatch]

Mmmm! I think I've also got to give those Earl Grey Tea Cookies a spin. They just look so ridiculously scrumptious!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

They really are, and their freckles are cute too.

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

would love the recipe for the Earl Gray cookies ;) They sound and look great!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

There's a few variations out there, the one we used was pretty 'basic' for what it is, chosen and mixed up by everloyal (the only difference here is she added vanilla):

http://www.ztastylife.com/2010/05/earl-grey-tea-shortbread-cookies.html

I saw another one where they had the vanilla plus things like lime zest and an egg in there then rolled the log of dough in coarse sugar, very fancy.

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nentari.livejournal.com]

I love the look of the Earl Grey cookies. Yum!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I have to credit my daughter with the idea and mixing up the dough, but I'll definitely be keeping them in mind for a re-run - very tasty!