Faith Middleton's Food Schmooze: Best Bake Sale Cookbook
Best Bake Sale Cookbook: Cookies for Kids Cancer
Every cookie makes a difference!
In December 2007, Gretchen Holt-Witt set the lofty goal of baking and selling 96,000 cookies during the holidays, all in the name of funding research for pediatric cancer, the #1 disease killer of kids in the United States and the disease her young son was battling. Armed with the determination of a mom on a mission plus the knowledge that funds for research mean more treatment options, better survival rates, and hope for the future, Holt-Witt succeeded in selling all 96,000 cookies and raising over $400,000 for new pediatric cancer treatments.
Long after the ovens cooled, requests for more cookies along with offers to help poured in. Gretchen knew she was onto something. She and her husband Larry answered the call to action by starting Cookies for Kids' Cancer (cookiesforkidscancer.org), a national non-profit that inspires people to host bake sales of all sizes, from desktops and porches to entire corporations and communities, with some raising more than $30,000 in one day. Cookies for Kids' Cancer went on to partner with The Glad Products Company, inspiring thousands of individuals with Glad's promise to match funds raised at bake sales. The partnership has received attention from Martha Stewart, CNN, Parade, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Day, O The Oprah Magazine, the Today show, and more.
With experience, passion, heart, and great stories from bake sale hosts, this cookbook was created to inspire more bake sales as well as directly benefit this amazing charity. 100% of the author's proceeds and royalties will be donated to Cookies for Kids' Cancer for pediatric cancer research. The recipes include easy-to-prepare treats for cookies, brownies, bars, cupcakes, quick breads, and more. In addition, there are tips on starting your own bake sale and inspirational quotes and stories throughout the book.
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Please know that some of us wear size 12 because we are tall (almost six feet) and of medium build. I smiled to myself at the characterization that a size 12 is for "people with meat on their bones, larger people, fat people, people with weight on them." If I were less than a size 12, I would be skeletal. Fat? Hardly.
Cookies for Kids' Cancer website
Faith, thanks for this program, I'm listening now and my mouth is watering. I also went to Cookies for Kids Cancer website, and looked at "make a donation"...I started to cry, because I could direct my donation to a particular type of cancer, and there was a drop-down list. This caught me by surprise and made me cry because there are so many specific kids cancers on that list, how sad! Children and their parents shouldn't have to worry about these things, and yet there it is. Thank you again for a great show, and a GREATER cause!
Liz Harwood
Plantsville, CT
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