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

[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.