ISO: ISO Miss Lola, who won the Christmas Eve cookie contest this year?!
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My husband and seventeen year old son won with an original
creation..they took gingerbread dough, baked it in a mini muffin pan, coated it in chocolate and then filled it with homemade peppermint ice cream and drizzled it with chocolate. Their presentation was hysterical complete with a recitation of a host of fictional awards the cookie had won (time magazine cookie of the year etc)complete with trophies and certificates. They won hands down, although the competition was fierce! I only got one vote for the chocolate mint cookies and that was from one of our dear friends that announced he was no dummy, he was voting for me since I host the party every year and make his favorite tenderloin! My twenty year old son tried to sell his vote, my best friend presented her coconut cookies singing "I have a lovely bunch of coconuts", one person went after the ohio state fans in the crowd by making Jim Tressel's favorite cookie (or so he said)..my mom tried to get the sympathy vote by playing up the fact that she was in her seventies, no one bought that in the least,she is tougher than the rest of us combined. I could go on and on. We ended up with twenty different kinds of cookies and they were all spectacular! My husband and son will be impossible to live with for the next year!! 2009 Christmas Eve contest will be for the best appetizer...game's on!
creation..they took gingerbread dough, baked it in a mini muffin pan, coated it in chocolate and then filled it with homemade peppermint ice cream and drizzled it with chocolate. Their presentation was hysterical complete with a recitation of a host of fictional awards the cookie had won (time magazine cookie of the year etc)complete with trophies and certificates. They won hands down, although the competition was fierce! I only got one vote for the chocolate mint cookies and that was from one of our dear friends that announced he was no dummy, he was voting for me since I host the party every year and make his favorite tenderloin! My twenty year old son tried to sell his vote, my best friend presented her coconut cookies singing "I have a lovely bunch of coconuts", one person went after the ohio state fans in the crowd by making Jim Tressel's favorite cookie (or so he said)..my mom tried to get the sympathy vote by playing up the fact that she was in her seventies, no one bought that in the least,she is tougher than the rest of us combined. I could go on and on. We ended up with twenty different kinds of cookies and they were all spectacular! My husband and son will be impossible to live with for the next year!! 2009 Christmas Eve contest will be for the best appetizer...game's on!
sandi-in-hawaii
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What fun! Sounds like the presentation is worth more as many points as the cookie!!
Love your tradition!
Love your tradition!
Absolutely, come on over, It is loads of fun, and the talking
back and forth as it gets closer to Christmas Eve is really, really funny. My favorite part of the whole thing is that it gets people who rarely step into a kitchen looking up recipes, and figuring out how to bake. The only rule is that it has to be a cookie. The presentations are a riot!
back and forth as it gets closer to Christmas Eve is really, really funny. My favorite part of the whole thing is that it gets people who rarely step into a kitchen looking up recipes, and figuring out how to bake. The only rule is that it has to be a cookie. The presentations are a riot!
