How the cookie crumbles: Sales of Girl Scout goodies hurting as ... From Foster's Daily Democrat 12 boxes of cookies each to the middle school Tuesday and hoped to sell all of them before the election polls closed at 7 p.m. Cusack said they hoped to sell $1,000 of Girl Scout cookies this year, but she was not sure if they would reach that goal. Last year, the 14,000 Girl Scouts in New Hampshire and Eastern Vermont who make up the Swift Water Council sold more than 1.25 million boxes of cookies, she said. Donations of Girl Scout cookies to Operation Cookie, a program where New Hampshire...

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The Brownies of Disappointment From sarahockler.com (2 beat-up old camping chairs and a blanket) 1, and said, "Remember that time like a few months ago when I said, I think I want brownies,' and then I rummaged through the pantry and made a whole bunch from scratch, and they were, like, the best effing brownies ever?" Do you want to know the really sad, sad, sad, pathetic part?

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Celtic culinary creativity From Bangor Daily News Thus our good God gave us Bailey's Irish Cream. Eventually, Bailey's stumbled from the barroom into the bakery, and with a rare spark of Celtic culinary creativity, Bailey's Irish Brownies were born. Imagine how eyes were smiling after a taste of this decadent chocolate confection spiked with a few shots of whiskey and cream. Because if brownies are good, Bailey's Irish Brownies are even better. Beat sugar and eggs together in a large bowl, gradually adding in cooled chocolate mixture and...

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cosmic brownies From paperbubbles.wordpress.com Kinda' a weird thought to follow hematite, but if you look at it artistically maybe not, there is a similarity. Since one of the photos on the link (unfortunately hard to see) got me thinking about cosmic brownies, I mention them because few would think of these the kind of brownies that are folklore sprites or faeries (that are somewhat mischievous) thought to do helpful work at night. One of those blogs where you need to go back a few entries in order to connect some of the anagrams,...

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After school or anytime, cookies please From SouthCoastToday.com The image of warm, homemade cookies and milk greeting a youngster after school probably is trapped, like a fly in amber, in the Beaver Cleaver era. Beacon Hill cookies, a delicate kind of chocolate-walnut meringue, and Aunt Frances' date-nut bars were special-occasion sweets, whipped up for holiday parties or wedding showers. Now and then, Mom would make the old-fashioned bar cookies called hermits, mostly because Dad favored them, I believe. Hermits Makes 36 small squares or about 60 cookies.

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