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

[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!