Every year for the last seven, employees in the Betty Crocker Kitchens (and from other departments that work closely with us) get together for an afternoon to bake and decorate cookies—lots and lots of cookies! This year, there were 45 of us who made enough goodies to fill: 80 cookie tins, 127 bags of gingerbread people, 15 bags of Chocolate Chex® Caramel Crunch and 40 boxes of candy (Peppermint Bark and Peanut Brittle). These cookies are sold over a 2-day period (if they last that long) at the Courage Center in Golden Valley, Minnesota.
Laura, from the Courage Center, sent this note just minutes after the sale started, “We had a mad dash at 10:00am and more than half were sold by 10:30! It is going very well.
The talk of this year . . . one person went back to their desk and opened up the Chex® mix and came running back down and bought more and spread the word! The mix is a hit! People also like the small boxes.”
Following are some photos from our fun event:
Sally, our V.P., came up with the idea to bake cookies for a cause. She collects the tins, washes them and lines them with parchment paper. If you look past Sally and out the windows you will see that it is snowing—we got about five inches of snow on the afternoon of our baking, making it seem very wintery and also more festive.
Those who can (Maria and Julie in the photo below), "artistically" decorate Gingerbread Cutouts. They had a lot of help—at least five other staff members helped to decorate these cookies.
Could these gingerbread people be any cuter?
The Sugar Cookie Mittens are pretty cute too.
Peanut Blossoms are everone's favorite cookie!
Cindy and I are placing Bonbon Cookies in little paper cups.
Here is our Peppermint Bark, packed in little boxes.
These are called Chocolate Pretzel Buttons. We made them this year, for the first time.
This was the packing station for the Chocolate Chex® Caramel Crunch.
Julie, Kathy, Lori and Jeff, work at one of the packing assembly lines.
We pack the tins really full of beautiful and delicious cookies.
Happy Holidays Everyone!
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