menu for hope
Menu for Hope is an annual fundraiser put together by food bloggers around the globe to raise money for a world cause–this year, the U.N. World Food Programme, and will run from December 10 through the 24th. Food bloggers entice you to give through–what else?–food-related gifts. For each $10 you donate, you may choose to enter your name into a raffle for a specific prize. The full list of donated raffle prizes is here.
But really, all you want to know is: What is the Smitten Kitchen donating? And that would be two Cookie Care Packages.
Alex and I want to reward two donators with a box of homemade cookies from a recipe previously featured on smittenkitchen.com, shipped to your doorstep.
Options include Big Fat Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Molasses Spice Cookies, Homemade Oreos, Russian Tea Cakes, Poilâne Bakery in Paris’s Punition/Sable Cookies, the world-famous World Peace Cookies or Rugelach Pinwheels, just to get your appetite whetted. Should these not be your speed, additional cookie recipes will be coming in next week, so keep your eyes peeled for more buttery-sugary decadence.
The only caveat is that we can only ship these within the U.S. Cookies will not make it internationally without getting stale or broken, and would cost a prohibitive fortune. However, there are a fantastic number of prizes from the EU, all detailed on Foodbeam.
How do you enter your name into one of the Smitten Kitchen Cookie Care Package raffles?
Go to FirstGiving.com, which is managing the giving campaign. When it asks you to enter a “Personal Message” you enter code UE13 or UE14, either of which will sign you up for one of the two Smitten Kitchen Cookie Care Packages. Check the box that follows which says that you are “happy for the page owner to see my email address”–this will allow organizers to know which raffles you’d like to be entered in.
The winners of each raffle prize will be announced Wednesday January 9 on Chez Pim.
Was that confusing? I sure hope not. But to sum it up in the slimmest number of words to the very best of my reporterly abilities:
Over the course of the fourth Menu for Hope campaign, for every $10 you donate to the U.N. World Food Programme, you may opt for one chance at a raffle prize donated by a food blogger. Smitten Kitchen has entered two baked-to-order prizes; choose them through codes UE13 or UE14. Find out if you won January 9 at Chez Pim.
And thank you, in advance, for all of your generosity. I’d bake cookies for nice folks like you any old day.
Hmm, this sounds like a modern-day bake sale fundraiser – what a great idea! I’ll check-out the link, but in the meantime I was wondering about the cookies in the photo – which one are you selecting (in the Dec 9th post)? I checked all of links but couldn’t find one that looks like sugar-coated rectangles? Care to share that recipe, too?
Heheh. Two of those cookies are coming next week. The anticipation!
I have been reading you blog for th past few weeks, and I LOVE it. I have made a bunch of stuff already. Every year I make cookies to give out as gifts. Last year I figured that I made over 100 dozen cookies, about 11 different kinds. Each time I try to come up with a unique way to package them. Any ideas for this year?
Cant’ wait to see what new cookies you will have next week. I am includeing your oreos in my packages this year.
So happy you are participating in this event! I just got finished with my donation. A box of your cookies would be awesome!
So, slightly off topic, but what font do you use on the website and in that graphic for “order cookies from the smitten kitchen”?
Everything but the header is in generic Tahoma.
What kind of dip would you make to serve with the parmesan-black pepper biscotti? Am throwing a wine & cheese party this weekend…
This year I’m planning on doing boxes of cookies as gifts for co-workers. Do you have any recommendations of where to get cookie packing supplies?
See that box of cookies in the top photo? I slept with it on Saturday night. I know, I’m disgusting. Taking advantage of a nice box of cookies like that…. aha ha aha ha ha
Jessica — I think the biscotti are absolutely perfect as is. I really don’t think they need a dip/can’t imagine what would add to them.
Kristin — Not offhand, but I’ll be having my eye out in the coming month!
Jocelyn — I think you were just confused because they were in a Marc Jacobs box. Anyone could have made that mistake. [Insert you best 'need to stop selling/giving away my cookies on the street' joke here.]
Thanks Deb! And I’m based in NYC, so if you pass any stores that don’t have internet-ordering, I’m amenable to that as well.
hey deb, LOVE the prize you are donating!! certainly haf me drooling over the keyboard:) Just wondering…do you only ship the cookies within the US region?!
yum yum yum…a perfect prize for a cookie monster like me… perhaps you could make the box EDIBLE as well…you know, just in case ; ) I can sooo… imagine myself ‘SLEEPWALKIN’ into the kitchen UNCONSCIOUSLY eating up all the cookies in one night and waking up to find delectable buttery crumbs on the side of my mouth the next morning :) hehehehe…. mmmmmm….COOOOKIEESSSsss ….. *goobles*
I donated :) Can’t wait to see that cookie recipes either!
Hi Cecilia — Sadly, no, and I’ll update the gift profile accordingly. It already costs a fortune to mail within the U.S.–outside, it would be even something akin to a firstborn and the cookies are likely to arrive well past their prime, as the SK is preservative-free, naturally.
Chicken and biscuits falls outside my cultural food milieu, but I finally tasted it up at an Adirondack Resort where it is the RAVING favorite Saturday night meal 35 years running. The biscuits were heavy things and the gravy was just so-so. Your lighter version, with actual green in the dish, looks so lovely.
So yummy! I’m off to bid :-)
Wow! I just ate my second one, warm out of the oven. They’re crumbly and the melt in your mouth…I didn’t have any peanut butter chips or chocolate chips, but I did have some chocolate covered coffee beans. So I smashed those up and used about 3/4 of a cup. They’re really a treat. Thanks for the great recipe!
And I have to say, using something flat to press, rather than a fork, makes them look ultra modern; nothing like your mom’s peanut butter cookies. Thanks again.