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[Prime] COOKIE BRIGADE - $13,161 for Prime 2012!!
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Splenda is good, I even think they have recipes on their website.
I've got one that uses sugar and almond flour and rice flour and a ton of butter. Unhealthy in pretty much every other way, but crispy and not grainy. I'll have to make sure to make some, and maybe I'll put the recipe up on our site for other people to try.
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So I've been really busy and haven't had any time to read the CB website. (And, as predicted upthread, we stand an 80% chance of moving a week or two before pax.)
Since I'm just baking, can I escape with a few easy steps that are: 1) Bake a bunch of cookies (with my new oven, so trying not to burn them) 2) Bag them into individual servings 3) Give them to you at Pre-PAX gaming. Thus, I'd never get around to the CB website (I may try, but nothing is certain!)
That's about the long and the wide of it, yes. If you get a chance, definitely try to get onto the site for just a few minutes to check out the baking and packaging tips. There's some good detailed information there that isn't really appropriate for this thread.
Sign up for the Brigade at www.cookie-brigade.com or for you existing Brigadiers, check the thread and see if you'd be interested in helping with Supply, Distribution or anything else that tickles your fancy.
I'm excited this year for PAX and this is such a good cause! Free cookies given put by people accepting donations!
Do you have a favorite recipe or online resource for good recipes?
I'm planning on making some Vegan cookies this year (even bought a new cookbook for it!). They'll probably be chocolate chip unless I find something that sounds yummier in the book.
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Awesome I hope to find you all then!
I'm doing Rice Krispie Treats again this year; new ideas for delicious toppings are welcome! Um... I also have like 50 lbs of white chocolate and only like 5 lbs of dark chocolate, so...
Last year we had
Dark Chocolate +
---- Milk Duds + Smoked Salt
---- Oreos
---- Dirt (Crushed Oreos, Peanut Butter, and Gummy Worms)
---- Fritos and Jalapenos (I know, but they were crazy good)
---- Nutter Butters
---- Mini Reeses Cups
---- Triple Mint (Crushed candy canes, Andes mints, York Patties)
---- Smokehouse Almonds
---- Bacon + Smoked Almonds + Toffee + Cinnamon
---- Salty Bar Mix + Pretzels
White Chocolate +
---- Good n' Plentys
---- Pop Rocks
---- Nerds
---- Mints
---- Reeses Pieces
---- Cinnamon Candy
---- Gummy Bears
---- Fruit Loops
I feel inadequate now.......
(Yep, still haven't logged into the site. The House deal is supposed to close on the 7th, we'd move on the 9th or so, my wife will be out of town on business the 15-18th or August. Hopefully I can slip baking in there somewhere.)
And you don't have to bake. There are plenty of other ways to support the Brigade at PAX that don't require preplanning.
Go check it out.
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Don't worry, I have to break in a brand new oven, and the only way to accomplish that is the incredible abuse of an all day (or multiday) baking session. (Plus I can never sleep before I travel anyway, so I can either stay up and surf the internet or bake and load bags of cookies.)
I wasn't planning on being started yet anyway. I'm making Chocoalte Chip and Oatmeal Scotchies (and maybe those Peanut Butter balls with Hershey's kisses on top.) You can't exactly start those a month in advance
I figure if I can get about somewhere between 6-8 dozen packs of cookies (likely 2/pack) I'll have contributed about what I wanted to. And although I'm a bit out of practice (due to the apartment kitchen I've had for the last 2 years being...tiny) that's really not all that much considering the past holiday backing I've done. I'm probably going to just take a moving box (and left over bubble wrap) and check that as my second bag to get the cookies to PAX.
The Cookie Brigade does not sell cookies. We give cookies away for free.
Donations are entirely voluntary and greatly appreciated. All proceeds (every penny) goes directly to Child's Play.
I just submitted an application to the Cookie Brigade website, so I hope that it isn't too late to apply!
This is a true statement, I have made cookies after midnight before just to satisfy a craving.
While appearing at every PAX since 2008 and raising thousands of dollars for Child's Play, the Cookie Brigade does have opperating costs. Donate to help us cover these costs so we can continue to bring you buttons, cards, and bingo prizes in addition to delicious cookies.
If you want to donate or just pass on the link, it's here: https://www.wepay.com/donations/cookie-brigade-prime-2012
(Actually, more like Snickerdoodles and Setting-Up-The-New-Computer-And-Installing-SKYRIM, but you get the idea.)