December 10, 2012

Day 1: OXO Cookies for Kids’ Cancer & OXO Baking Giveaway {Naptime Chef Cooking Show}

Today I am thrilled to kick-off my holiday gift week chatting about one of my favorite causes,  Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. I know cancer isn’t necessarily a fun topic, but making cookies and selling them to support pediatric cancer research is definitely a fun thing to do. For me there are fewer things that feel better or more worthwhile than putting my baking skills to good use during the holiday season. This month I have joined several of my food blogging buddies to create and promote a great Holiday Recipe Video series featuring our favorite holiday cookies to support Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. I’ll admit, I am feeling rather large these days and didn’t necessarily want to film myself, but I’ll do anything for this organization. (Don’t worry, I plan to bring back The Naptime Chef Cooking Show this spring post-baby – most likely to make lighter food as I lose the baby weight!)

I hope you’ll take the time to support Cookies for Kids’ Cancer this holiday season. There are many things you can do to show your support. You could host a bake sale, set up a giving page, or even order cookies from their website and send them to friends as a holiday gift that also gives back. How easy is that?!

Crescent Cookies and OXO Giveaway via The Naptime Chef

Today on the cooking show I am making classic crescent cookies. There are one of my favorite holiday cookies. They taste like a more delicate version of the popular Pecan Snowball, and I love their pretty half moon shape. They would be great for a holiday bake sale or just for giving to friends. As you’ll see here, I like to package them in tins with festive holiday paper before handing them out to friends and loved ones.

OXO Baking Boss Giveaway via The Naptime Chef

To cap off our Cookies for Kids’ Cancer Support today OXO is generously giving away one of their Baking Boss gift sets to one lucky winner. The set includes:

To enter to win this giveaway:

1) Leave a comment sharing your favorite baked good to sell or buy at a charity bake sale

2) Subscribe to The Naptime Chef newsletter (upper right hand corner)

3) Subscribe to Kelsey Banfield on Facebook

4) The contest runs from December 10th at 7:00am ET through December 17th at 7:00am ET. Winner will be announced in the Friday December 21st newsletter. The winner has 48 hours to claim the prize before it is awarded to someone else.

Recipe

Classic Crescent Cookies

makes 3 dozen cookies

Ingredients

1 cup finely ground walnuts
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour, sifted
½ cup confectioners’ sugar, plus more for dusting
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

2. Place the walnuts and butter in the mixer and stir to incorporate. Then add in the flour, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla extract and beat everything together, starting on low speed and increasing to high as the flour gets incorporated. Once the dough forms stop the mixer.

3. Pinch off pieces of dough and form them into balls about 1 ½-inches round. Then form them into little crescent shapes. Line them up on lined baking sheets about 1-inch apart.

4. Bake them for about 25 minutes, or until the bottoms are golden brown and the tops are lightly golden. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely on a wire rack. Once they are completely cool dust the cookies with confectioners’ sugar and serve.

Naptime Notes

Naptime Recipe Serving ideas

These delicious cookies are fantastic any time of year but are really my favorite to serve around the holidays. They are also delicious made with ground pecans!

Naptime Stopwatch

20 minutes prep time, 25 minutes bake time

Naptime Reviews

These delicious cookies are perfect for the holidays and would be great to sell at a bake sale!

 

 

105 Responses to “Day 1: OXO Cookies for Kids’ Cancer & OXO Baking Giveaway {Naptime Chef Cooking Show}”

  1. I like fudge cause I never get to make it my self

  2. Heather Hicks says:

    I love to buy cake balls at a bake sale!

  3. Cristen says:

    Rice Krispie treats… still the best 🙂

  4. AH says:

    Classic brownies are my favorite bake sale treat!

  5. I love chewy ginger cookies.

  6. I subscribe to Kelsey Banfield Facebook feed.

  7. Laura Scott says:

    Any type of shortbread!

  8. I like making scotch shortbread or sugar cookie bars… easy to put together and then just cut up instead of shaping individual cookies.

  9. Charlsey says:

    I LOVE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES! Always my go to for any bake sale 🙂

  10. laurie says:

    Brownies. Love them.

  11. Kathleen Conner says:

    Banana bread!

  12. Alex says:

    Brownies or chocolate chip cookies. The classics are almost always a success

  13. Kris says:

    Brownies!

  14. vaishali says:

    Red velvet cake balls..:)

  15. Julie J says:

    Iced sugar cookies!

  16. Jennifer says:

    Rice Crispie Treats. I never make them for our family, but we always buy them at a bake sale! They’re classic, cheap, and easily packaged for bake sales.

  17. sara says:

    I love classic chocolate chip cookies with quality ingredients and a sprinkle of sea salt.

  18. Marjory Lynn says:

    Chocolate kisses, they are classic.

  19. ilona t says:

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  20. Mom24 says:

    Old fashioned brownies always are a big hit!

  21. Kathy Schoenherr says:

    I love to sell rice krispie treats.

  22. Kathy Schoenherr says:

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  23. John Billiris says:

    I like brownies

  24. John Billiris says:

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  25. John Billiris says:

    like on FB

  26. karen says:

    I love to bake blondies for bake sales
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  27. My favorite, Date Nut Pinwheels!!

  28. Khanh says:

    I love brownies! Baking them, buying them, eating them!!!

  29. Khanh says:

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  30. Khanh says:

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  31. Emilee says:

    I like to buy decorated sugar cookies! I’m not very good at decorating, so I think it’s fun buy cookies that someone else has made pretty!

  32. Christine says:

    I am your friend on facebook

  33. Kathleen Conner says:

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  34. Kathleen Conner says:

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  35. Erin Cochrane says:

    Love anything at a bake sale with peanut butter and LOTS of chocolate 🙂

  36. Erin Cochrane says:

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  37. Calli says:

    Can’t go wrong with chocolate chip cookies!

  38. susitravl says:

    I like to buy any kind of cookie.

  39. susitravl says:

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  40. Valerie Suhanosky says:

    like to buy the special cookie made by the seller,especially if it’s an old family recipe.

  41. Sarah H.P. says:

    I love to make brownies for bake sales!

  42. I always love purchasing homemade breads. You know the person who went to the trouble of making a homemade bread definitely has a good recipe!

  43. Aibrean Ros says:

    I make chocolate chip cookies!

  44. Aibrean Ros says:

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  45. Aibrean Ros says:

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  46. Chocolate crinkles are my fave to buy at bake sales!

  47. I love to buy cookies at bake sales–any kind.

  48. Alice Mizer says:

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  50. Alice Mizer says:

    my fave item to bake for a bake sale is salted caramel peanut butter thumbprint cookies! 🙂 they are amazing!!

  51. fromajolie says:

    I’m a fan of gingersnaps.

  52. fromajolie says:

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  53. fromajolie says:

    A fan on FB.

  54. Clare O Bruen says:

    Subscribed on FB

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  56. Clare O Bruen says:

    Favourite bake would be an Almond Slice mmmm,

  57. Joanne B says:

    Email newsletter subscriber.

  58. Joanne B says:

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  59. Joanne B says:

    Love to bake or buy anything with chocolate at a bake sale!

  60. Megan says:

    My favorite is Rice Krispie treats – easy and always a favorite!

  61. Megan says:

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  63. Jacqui says:

    I love selling cupcakes! Any flavor 🙂

  64. Jacqui says:

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  65. Jacqui says:

    I am a fan of you on Facebook as well

  66. Greg Allbee says:

    Can’t go wrong with a good brownie!

  67. Marcia says:

    For sure my favorite thing to buy at a bake sale is brownies.

  68. Marcia says:

    I am already a FB fan

  69. Marcia says:

    I’m already an email subscriber

  70. Jules Smith says:

    my favorite thing is my snowballs.

  71. Jules Smith says:

    I am an email subscriber already

  72. Jules Smith says:

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  73. Schmidty says:

    thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies

  74. Schmidty says:

    I am one of your email subscribers.

  75. Schmidty says:

    I follow you on facebook as Rust Hawk.

  76. Pat says:

    I’d make cookies (like bags of mini chocolate chip cookies) or cupcakes for a charity bake sale.

  77. Karen Lynch says:

    I love to buy bar cookies at bake sales.

  78. Karen Lynch says:

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  79. Christina C says:

    gluten free brownies!

  80. Christina C says:

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  81. Christina C says:

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  82. Anj Shan says:

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  83. Anj Shan says:

    My favorite baked good to sell or buy at a charity bake sale brownies

  84. Kimberly Porter says:

    I like to buy brownies at bake sales. They stay moist and fresh longer than most things I’ve purchased.

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  87. Robin says:

    We like to buy brownies with nuts at bake sales. When I make them I don’t use nuts because the kids don’t like them :(.

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  89. Robin says:

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  90. Miranda says:

    I like bringing brownies

  91. Miranda says:

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  93. Rochelle says:

    I love to buy a good old-fashioned chocolate cake at a bake sale. I bring chocolate chip cookies to sell. Thanks!

  94. Rochelle says:

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  96. Noreen says:

    Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies or a good brownie

  97. Annie Ripp says:

    I make the chocolate chip oatmeal cookies from the cookies for kids with cancer cookbook for the monthly PTO bake sale. They are very popular, I’ve shared the recipe many times this year 🙂

  98. I like to make cupcakes for bake sales.

  99. Valene says:

    Can never go wrong with a good old fashioned brownie at a bake sale.

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