Thompson: Our search is on for sweet success
Got noseprints on your oven window?
Then read on.
This is your invitation to submit dessert recipes to our Holiday Sweets Recipe Search.
Three delicious dishes will be chosen to appear in all their glorious scrumptiousness (most likely with fabulous color photography and accompanying overwrought prose about their heavenly yumminess) in Dec. 2’s Savor section.
We’re calling for cookies, pies, cakes, puddings, candies, muffins, etc., that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling ... and then a sugar high.
Important point: Items do not have to be of the baked variety.
It could be a clever new take on an old classic.
It might by your proudest delicacy passed down through generations that you think everyone should know about. Or it could be your second-proudest delicacy because you’re keeping the big guns for yourself.
Or maybe that sister-in-law with her awe-inspiring sparkler-studded Boxing Day plum pudding flambé needs to be shown up this year. Didn’t they have to call the fire department last year?
Let ’er have it.
All we ask is that the recipes be original or adapted. Send in a recipe from the Northwest Herald’s Savor section, and you will be busted. I design and edit that section.
Oh, and it has to be sweet.
And it has to be received by Nov. 18.
And it has to have measurements (cups, teaspoons, pinches, gallons, Dumpsters) and oven temperatures and reasonably straightforward directions.
And it has to be legible. And it has to have your phone number on it in case it is illegible and we have to ask questions. (Don’t worry, we won’t print your phone number.)
But that’s all we ask.
Please e-mail recipes to jthompson@nwherald.com or mail them to Holiday Sweets Recipe Search, Northwest Herald, P.O. Box 250, Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250.
We had some really delicious ones last year.
Nutty, buttery Frosted Cashew Cookies from Mari Ann Contos of Crystal Lake were made even better by a dollop of her Golden Butter Frosting.
Swedish Delights from Cathy Wise of Crystal Lake were a light, citrusy summer breeze in the dead of winter.
And Ruthie Granger of Cary submitted Chubbies, a pairing of chocolate and peanut butter like no other.
I know people might feel a little shy about their cooking and baking skills and set impossibly high standards for their patisseries and confections. But keep in mind that those impeccably frosted and perfectly square TV cakes are probably made from car batteries with mashed potatoes sprayed on by a robot.
In other words, this isn’t a beauty pageant or a popularity contest.
So fear not.
Yum’s the word.
• Jana Thompson can be reached at jthompson@nwherald.com.
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