Fun With the Grandkids

Yesterday Blaubeere and her kids came over for a visit.  That's always nice.  Life for our two families has been so hectic that they haven't been over for several weeks so it was especially nice that we were finally able to get together again.

Anyway, the scout troop that our church sponsors was having a fund raiser and had asked for donations so we decided to make some cookies to donate.  That was fun.  And as it turned out, a very profitable idea for the scouts, too.  But we'll get to that in a minute.

So Braumbeere found a cool recipe online that we decided to give a try.  After all, it did seem very appropriate for the season, this being Halloween season and all. So we went shopping to make sure we had every thing we needed and were ready to get down to business.  After all, malted chocolate candy and chocolate covered raisins are not something we normally keep around the house - had to go get some.

The cookies are essentially peanut butter cookies that are decorated special so we decided to just use the cookie recipe for the basic cookies.  That turned out to not the best decision because the peanut butter cookie recipe we normally use turned out to be way better than this one.  But it was okay anyway, it didn't seem to affect how well the cookies did in the auction at the fundraiser.

So Braumbeere made the cookies and cooked them up and all.  Then the grandkids helped with the decorating.  Or the grandkid, mostly.  One was too hooked on the Wii to come play in the cookies.  But Hero had a good time and did a real good job, as well.

So Grandma made the cookies and Hero put some of the decorations on. One on the cookie, one in the mouth.  No, not really.  He was real good about staying on task and getting his part of the decorations done.

Then, after Hero had done his part, Maulbeere put the finishing touches on with the frosting.  Very focused on her work; careful, steady hands and the end product turned out to look really good.  Even a lot like the pictures!

So we took seven plates of five cookies per plate to the fundraiser and they were auctioned off.  One of the scouts was auctioneer and didn't do too bad a job, especially after he got into it and got his rhythm going. As it turned out each plate sold for between $6 and $8 per plate.  Over a dollar per cookie - that was amazing.  I was a little surprised.  All totaled, the scouts did real well for their fundraiser.  Probably the best they've done since we moved in and got involved with this troop.  Certainly better than back when we were doing brat frys in front of the local grocery stores. That was a lot of work for a small return.

So almost all the cookies we made went to the fundraiser, there were only a couple left that went to "reward" those that helped make them.  It was a fun afternoon.