Sales around town, a cookbook and a fun idea
Cookie lovers who don’t have time or inclination to bake themselves can still enjoy platters full of home-baked holiday cookies, thanks to cookie sales held across town by churches, schools and other groups. ❚ Here are a few cookie sales still to come:
Wednesday, Dec. 6
Children’s Community Center: Christmas Cookie Sale, 7:30 a.m., N88W17550 Christman Road, Menomonee Falls. $3 per dozen. (262) 251-1212.
Saturday, Dec. 9
Faith Community Church: Cookie Walk, 8 a.m. to noon, 7700 W. Faith Drive, Franklin. Cookies sold by the pound.
Grace Lutheran Church: 17th Annual Cookies by Pound Sale, 9 to 11 a.m., 8537 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Oak Creek. $9 per pound.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish: Cookie and Craft Sale, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to noon Sunday, Dec. 10, 1212 S. 117th St., West Allis, church hall off parking lot. Assorted
homemade cookies, 1-pound boxes $8, plus arts and crafts.
Jerusalem Presbyterian Church: Christmas Cookie Sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., 207 W. Main St., Wales. Homemade cookies sold by the dozen; chili and hot dogs available. (262) 968-3408.
Redeemer United Church of Christ: Community Christmas Cookie Sale, noon to 4 p.m., W220 N4915 Townline Road, Sussex (use Menomonee Falls for GPS). Homemade Christmas cookies sold by the dozen. Join us for a fun afternoon of cookies, candy, gluten-free treats, Santa, crafts for kids, face painting, hot cider and more.
St. Augustine Parish: Homemade Christmas Cookie Sale plus gifts and decorations, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday; 8:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday, 6762 W. Rogers St., West Allis. Cookies sold by the pound. Free coffee.
St. Mary and St. Antonius Coptic Orthodox Church: Traditional Egyptian Christmas cookies and baklava, homemade Egyptian hot food and spiced coffee, plus Egyptian-made crafts and souvenirs, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10. Also church tours and free photos of children with St. Nick from noon to 3 p.m. both days. 1521 W. Drexel Ave., Oak Creek; (414) 764-5944; wiscopts.net.
St. Therese Parish: Homemade Christmas Cookie Sale & Craft Raffle, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Heck Hall, 9525 W. Blue Mound Road. Packaged boxes of cookies sold from 10:15 a.m. to noon Dec. 10. $9 per pound; 3 pounds, $25. (414) 7712500.
United Church of Christ Oconomowoc: Christmas Cookie Sale, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., 815 S. Concord Road, Oconomowoc. Cookies sold by the pound.
Saturday, Dec. 16
Adoration Lutheran Church: Christmas cookie sale and decoration resale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 3840 W. Edgerton Ave., Greenfield; (414) 281-0414. Homemade cookies, fudge and more; cookies
sold by the pound.
Cookie cookbook for sale
Mount Carmel Lutheran Church is marking the holiday season not with a cookie sale but with a 75th anniversary cookie cookbook, “Mount Carmel’s Cookie Jar.”
The 80-page spiral-bound book, with 116 recipes, comes 40 years after the first “Cookie Jar” book was published by the congregation at 8424 W. Center St., where cookies are a tradition.
For Lutherans, the introduction explains, “coffee is a staple between services on Sunday, and an array of homebaked cookies is part of the picture.”
In addition to submissions from church members, the book features recipes from that earlier book (marked with a star) plus cookie favorites from James Beard Award-winning chefs Sandy D’Amato, Justin Aprahamian (Sanford) and Adam Siegel (Lake Park Bistro), pastry chefs Matt Haase (Ardent) and Ellen Cummings Hyde (Quad Graphics), as well as Milwaukee magazine dining critic Ann Christensen and Journal Sentinel food editor Nancy Stohs.
Cookbooks sell for $10 (plus $3 shipping); mailing a check to the church at 8424 W. Center St., Milwaukee, WI 53222 with your name and mailing address; phone (414) 771-1270.
Cookie potluck idea
For cookie fun at the workplace, you could do what 20 members of the pulmonary department at St. Luke’s Hospital did. Each participant baked a different cookie from this year’s We Energies’ Cookie Book.
On Monday, they spread the cookies out in the department conference room for sampling. The discerning cookie eaters rated the cookies according to which they themselves would make and which they liked best.