Baking cookies for charity? Yes. Charity that benefits kids with cancer? Double yes.
I’ve actually promoted this charity in the past, but hey you can never have too much awareness about really great charities. Signing up for this great campaign by OXO of the awesome kitchen tools means that they are donating $100 on my behalf to this charity for writing about this campaign. Honestly, it’s a win-win-win… the third win is because I don’t care for sweets and am giving away all the cookies to whomever I see during this time.
I received the OXO cookie press (affiliate link) and had fun playing around with their included recipes — I’ve talked my face blue about how I’m not a strong baker, but practice makes me more comfortable with baking and working with dough, plus I’ve generally had positive results with cookie recipes. After some initial trouble figuring out how to work the press so that the cookie dough would come out neatly, I figured it out (it was a cookie sheet malfunction) and was consistently pressing out uniform cookies with no trouble whatsoever.
LOVE. I’m a little obsessed with my cookie press right now and have been Googling up recipes like mad, plus baked another 3 batches from the initial batch. I’m about ready to pick up the autumn set of cookie plates because they are that easy to use! The only downside is that I don’t like decorating cookies and these seem to need a little extra something-something to make them truly shine, but we’ll see…
The two recipes I used are from the booklet, linked here – I made both the butter cookies (which are decorated and visible in the pictures; I just added a dollop of plum ginger apricot jam before baking and they baked up sticky chewy yummy) and the cream cheese spritz cookies, except I subbed in almond extract for vanilla since I um, couldn’t open my vanilla extract bottle. Haha. I highly recommend the cream cheese spritz recipe, but I’m going to keep looking for another butter cookie recipe and welcome any suggestions! Also, if anyone has a great recipe for a lemon icing to ice these with… I’d be ever so grateful!!!
Now, you may wonder: what can you do to help? I AM GLAD YOU ASKED!!! Direct from OXO:
For every stickered item sold, OXO will donate 25 cents in support of pediatric cancer research as part of its $100,000* pledge to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Look for specially marked OXO products at participating retailers in September.
Here is a guide of all the baking products that are specially marked at participating retailers this month:
http://www.oxo.com/c-626-bake-
And here’s a Store Locator to find the nearest OXO retailer:
http://www.oxo.com/
For every item marked with the above sticker sold, OXO will donate 25 cents in support of pediatric cancer research as part of its $100,000 pledge to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. (Look for specially marked OXO products at participating retailers.)
So guys… run to your nearest store and pick up all the items you can find that have that nifty little sticker on it! You can bake lots of cookies and do what I did: pack them into mason jars and give them away!
Love it!
**Please note that I did not receive any compensation for this post, but a donation was made in my name to the Cookies for Kids’ Cancer charity. I received items from OXO to help me make the cookies but was under no obligation to post positively about them! Great charity with a great cause… please do what you can!
Ttrockwood says
I love that oxo is doing this! I totally love their kitchen tools too.
And you know there are a ton of recipes for savory “cookies” using the same press….? These are always a big hit at parties:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/rosemary-cheese-spritz-cookies-recipe.html
Feisty Foodie says
Ooh, I didn’t know that. Thanks so much, Tracy – I will definitely put that into the to-make pile!!
van says
I really need to look into that cream cheese recipe. I haven’t seen that before. But I have no idea where my cookie press is. I guess I need to look for that before anything else.
Feisty Foodie says
Haha, yeah that probably helps. The recipe can also be found here:
http://www.oxo.com/recipes.aspx
click on “cream cheese spritz cookies” 🙂 Hope that helps! They were pretty tasty, huge hit with my coworkers.