We're going to have a Cookie Walk at the Tea Party this week. You can find the teapot for this week by clicking here or visiting my blog.
Here's how it works:
Everyone picks their favorite cookie recipe and bakes a batch of cookies. Six dozen will do. Then we'll need a big table to put our trays on (I'll see if we can borrow the conference table from school). Make sure you have an empty container with you to put all your new cookies in.
Once everyone has their cookies on the table we can start. We'll rotate to the left - singing is optional - and pick up three cookies from each tray as we circle the table. No nibbling allowed until we're all done!
We'll keep circling the table until all the trays are empty and our containers are full. Then we'll sit down and have some peppermint tea as we taste all those delightful morsels of sugary goodness.
Oh, and don't forget to bring your recipe to share with everyone. Extra bonus points if your recipe has some kind of candy in it.
So go and find your recipe and let it inspire you this week. Maybe your favorite is gingerbread, or chocolate chip, or simple sugar cookies decorated in red and green. And if you don't celebrate Christmas, I bet you still like cookies or like to bake, or just let the teapot inspire you like I did.
Here's my cookie recipe:
Cinnamon Caramel Delights
12-14 graham crackers
1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup coconut
1 cup slivered almonds or nuts of your choice
Line a 15 x 10 x 1 pan with the graham crackers. Sprinkle the marshmallows over the crackers and set aside.
In a saucepan combine the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla on low heat - stirring constantly for about 4 or 5 minutes.
Pour mixture evenly over the crackers and marshmallows - don't forget the edges.
Sprinkle coconut and then almonds over the top.
Bake at 350º for 8-10 minutes. Let cool slightly and then slice into squares.
Check out all the Teapot Cards for this week. MMTPT72
Date: Monday, December 14, 2009 GMT Views: 803
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Mon, Dec 14, 2009 @ 11:04 PM
OMGosh, your card is gorgeous! So bright and colorful. WOW! That recipe makes my mouth water. I love new recipes. What a very fun time this is going to be! Thanks for hosting this week. Looking forward to a good time. TFS :0)
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 @ 3:11 AM
Thanks for hosting the teapot, I love your layout and prety flowers, looks kind of Sweedish this design, maybe the colours. Oooh, I love cookies (said in a Cookie Monster voice). LOL Beautiful card, I love the bright colours. WOW Lorraine, you are not kidding about the recipe. Will have to share my favourite recipe now...I have alot. LOL
So fun that we are going to taste everybody's cookies too. Maybe we should find a recipe to cure our indegestions after all that butter and sugar. Whooowheee, this sounds like fun.
Forgot to say, I am caseing your recipe during the holidays. LOL
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 @ 3:42 AM
Oooh, this is a cute, cute card. such a wonderful interpretation of the teapot. And I so love the theme this week...I love to bake and am gonna have to try this yummy sounding recipes...
Oooh gooody goody goody.....yummies for my tummy....(insert high pitched childish giggle here) heeheeeheheeeeheeee......yumm yummm yummmyyyy yumm yummmm....it's gonna be a sugary fun time in the kitchen tonight....
Oh dear, sorry about that, the cookie recipe and talk of baking woke up that other person that lives in my body. the one with all the childish notions and no willpower to control them......better go get her locked up safe or she will trash the party sneaking cookies off all the trays ahead of time, and forget about not sampling until we are all seated nice with our tea.
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 @ 10:02 AM
Love your wonderful inspired card! The cookies sound awesome, if only I could figure out a way to make them gluten free!!
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 @ 11:54 PM
Coming back to pop this into my favourites. Looking at it, it reminds me of some of the colour plates in my grandmother's old copy of Mrs Beeton, with the amazingly decorative way the Victorians used to decorate their trifles and puddings. I am thinking of red cherries and angelica, looking at this.