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HOME Place Your Ad Today!! Walworth County Sunday Sunday, November 30, 2008 19A Cookie walks are tasty way to raise money Church groups preparing for popular Christmas-season bake sales It’s time for a walk — a cookie walk, to be exact. You don’t actually do that much walking, but it is a pleasant experience. Cookie walks are popular this time of year as fundraisers for churches. Typically, members are asked to make and donate baked cookies for the event. The smaller and more intricate cookies often sell the best. Margaret Voight’s apricot danties are popular at St. John’s Lutheran cookie walk in Beloit. “I can’t remember how long I’ve been baking them — 30 or 40 years at least,” Voight said. “I make a German chocolate macaroon filled with black raspberry jelly that is good, too.” Voight is one of dozens of bakers who bring the cookies in for the annual sale, held the first Saturday in December at the church (see related graphic). The first weekend in December is a popular time for cookie walks. They’re slated in Milton, Elkhorn, Honey Creek, Edgerton and Beloit that weekend. Take a bit of a breather, and then go back on Dec. 13 to the United Methodist Church’s cookie walk in Janesville. Elkhorn’s cookie walk celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Money raised funds four scholarships. The Women’s Fellowship organizes the event and will sell cookies for $6 a pound. “We figured, with the economy the way it is, we didn’t want to raise the price,” co-chairwoman Mary Kay Opitz said. Opitz works with Betty Gaiser to coordinate the popular event. “We start out with 100 trays of cookies and go from there,” Opitz said. The cookies are arranged on an array of tables. Meanwhile, cookie buyers line up outside the church and around the corner. When customers get in the door, they each take a box and put on a plastic glove. They walk down the row of cookies and pick out the ones they want. The cookies are weighed at the end of the line. Other cookie walks set the price by the dozen. Most cookie walks have a few standout cooks who bake above and beyond the call of duty. In Beloit, Beth Schultz fills that role. “She is just a dear soul that brings in boxes and boxes of cookies,” said Joyce Drost, a fellow church member and baker. In Elkhorn, Ann Serpe is among the busiest bakers. “Well, I’m a week and a half away (from the cookie walk), and so far I have about 90 dozen,” Serpe said. Serpe has always helped out, but once she retired, she had more time to bake. “I don’t think mine are the best, but they’re very good,” she said. “I make a pecan one with raspberry jelly and a rum/nutmeg stick. There’s a butter and cream cheese one that I roll out and wrap around chocolate chips.” Everyone seems to have their favorite cookie, but most like to sample a wide variety. “Sometimes they want this, LYNN YNN GREENE REENE LYNN’S PLACE and sometimes they want that,” said Joyce Schrader, one of the organizers of the Honey Creek cookie walk. The Honey Creek church asks members to donate cookies, and also has an organized cookie bake. “We get together the Sunday before (the walk) and decorate the church,” Schrader said. “Then we have our chili lunch when everyone brings in a pot, and we mix it all together and then we do the cookie baking. “It’s a joint effort to get our cookies mixed up, baked and frosted. It’s a fun thing to do every year.” My family always baked a dozen or more varieties of Christmas cookies. They were boxed up and given away as gifts, and arranged on trays for holiday gatherings. Everyone had their favorite. I still make the date pinwheels, and everyone knows it. My sister says they’re too fussy for her — can she have some please? And my dad reminds me how much my mom likes them. (I suppose he eats a few, too, don’t you think?) This same sister, on the other hand, makes the Danish sugar cookies that I remember so well. I shy away from those, because when I make them, they just don’t seem to be as good as the ones she gives me nicely boxed up. I suspect a lot of families have their own must-have Christmas cookies, but there’s always room for a new favorite, isn’t there? Here are a few suggestions: Date pinwheels Makes 4 dozen Cookie batter: 1 cup butter 2 cups brown sugar 2 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. baking soda 4 cups flour Filling: 1-1/2 cups dates, chopped 2/3 cup water 2/3 cup sugar 2/3 cup walnuts, finely chopped Cream together butter, sugar and eggs. Sift dry ingredients together and add. Stir by hand until well-blended. Divide dough into four balls and chill. In a heavy stockpot, combine the dates, water and sugar and cook over low heat about 30 to 45 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat and stir in nuts. Chill. Roll each ball of dough into a rectangle. Spread one-fourth of the filling on each rectangle and PHOTO SUBMITTED Estella Fena, a member of the Milton United Methodist Women, works on an original Christmas-card design. The painting is one of two that has been made into cards that are offered for sale during the Milton church’s cookie walk. roll up from the short side to make a log. Freeze until firm. Remove a cookie log from the freezer and slice into 1/4-inchthick circles. Bake on a paperlined cookie sheet in a pre-heated 325 F oven for about 10 to 15 minutes or until set and lightly browned. Pecan fingers Makes 10 dozen 1 cup butter 1/4 cup powdered sugar 1/4 tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla 1 Tbsp. water 2 cups flour 2 cups pecans, finely chopped extra powdered sugar for coating Cream together first five ingredients. Stir in flour a little at a time. Add pecans and mix. Taking one tablespoon of dough at a time, make a small log about 3/4 inch thick and 2 inches long. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake in a preheated 325 F oven for about 15 minutes until just lightly browned on the bottom. Cool completely on wire racks. Roll each cookie in the extra powdered sugar and store in a tightly covered container. Chocolate snowswirl fudge 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 can Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk 4 Tbsps. butter 1-1/2 tsps. vanilla extract dash salt 1 cup chopped nuts 2 cups miniature marshmallows Melt chips with 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 2 Tablespoons butter, vanilla and salt. Remove from heat; stir in nuts. Spread evenly into foillined 8- or 9-inch square pan. Melt marshmallows with remaining 2 Tablespoons butter. Spread on top of fudge. With table knife or metal spatula, swirl through top of fudge. Chill at least two hours or until firm. Turn fudge onto cutting board; peel off foil and cut into squares. Store covered. Lemon crumb bars 1 pkg. (18-1/4-oz size) lemon or yellow cake mix 1/2 cup butter 1 egg 3 egg yolks 2 cups finely crushed Saltine crackers ( 1 can Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk 1/2 cup lemon juice Preheat oven to 350 F. In large bowl, beat cake mix, margarine and 1 egg with mixer until crumbly. Stir in Saltine crumbs. Reserving 2 cups crumb mixture, press remaining crumbs on bottom of greased 9- by 13-inch baking pan. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden. With mixer or wire whisk, beat three egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice together. Spread over prepared crust. Top with reserved crumb mixture. Bake 25 minutes longer or until set and top is golden. Cool. Refrigerate within two hours. Cut into bars. Store covered in refrigerator. Ginger cookies 1-1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup molasses 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 2 large eggs 4-1/2 cups flour 4 tsps. baking soda 1 tsp. ginger 2 tsps. cinnamon 1 tsp. cloves 1 tsp. nutmeg additional sugar in small bowl Cream together the butter, molasses, sugars, and eggs. Sift together dry ingredients and stir in until well incorporated. Form into small balls about an inch in diameter. Roll each ball in sugar, flatten slightly and set about 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Freeze until ready to use. Bake at 350 F COOKIE WALKS ■ 15th annual cookie walk 10 a.m. Dec. 6 at First Congregational United Church of Christ Women’s Fellowship, 76 S. Wisconsin St., Elkhorn. Contact Mary Kay Opitz at (262) 723- 3246. ■ Mrs. Santa’s Pantry cookie walk 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Honey Creek Community Baptist Church, 35512 Washington Ave., (Highway D), Honey Creek. Includes a bake sale, crafts and lunch. (262) 534- 2244. ■ United Methodist Church cookie walk 9 a.m. Dec. 6 at the church, 112 Albion St., Edgerton. (608) 884-6931. ■ Milton United Methodist Women’s cookie walk 8 a.m. Dec. 6 at the Milton United Methodist Church, 241 Northside Drive. Christmas cards created from original paintings by Estella Fena will be available. (608) 868- 3585. ■ Taste of Christmas cookie walk 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Dec. 6 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1000 Bluff St., Beloit. Use Merrill Street entrance. (608) 365-7838. ■ Cookie walk, craft and bake sale 9 a.m. Dec. 13, New Horizon United Methodist Church, 1726 S. Murphy Road, Janesville. (608) 876-6256. for about 10 minutes. Rum balls Makes 6 dozen 4 cups vanilla wafers, crushed 2 cups pecans, finely ground 2 cups powdered sugar 4 Tbsp. cocoa powder 4 Tbsp. maple syrup or dark Karo syrup 2/3 cup dark rum Extra 2 cups powdered sugar In bowl, combine crushed vanilla wafers, pecans, powdered sugar and cocoa. Stir in maple syrup and dark rum to form a sticky mixture. Using a teaspoon, form 1-inch balls and roll them in the extra powdered sugar to coat. Store in a tightly sealed container for at least one week to develop flavor. Baking tips Because eggs vary in size, figure how many eggs you need by measure — 1 egg should equal 1/4 cup. Chill cookie sheets before using to prevent the cookies from spreading too much. Mix cookies by hand; electric mixers can make the dough tough. Cool cookies on a wire rack. This allows the moisture to escape and prevents the cookies from getting soggy. Lynn Greene is senior editor for CSI Media, which publishes Walworth County Sunday. Contact her at lgreene @communityshoppers.com.
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