Cookie Bowl Results
September 7th, 2007Basically, I used Royal icing to ‘glue’ panels of cookie bars to a
cardboard hat box that was purchased at Hobby Lobby. Then I used
Betty Crocker icing to fill in the gaps. It might have been better
with chocolate decorators icing because it would have hardened.
Then, I baked 22 dozen cookies to fill it. Actually I baked 29 dozen, but they didn’t all fit in the bowl.
***If you want to know more than that, here is a detailed version.***
Here is a recipe for the cookie bar panels. I added 1/2 cup more flour to make sure they were stiff enough.
Anna’s Cookies (from Tina Jobe)
Ingredients
2 1/4 c All purpose flour
1 t Baking soda
1 t Baking powder
1 t Salt
1 1/4 sticks Butter
6 tablespoons Crisco can use the “trans-fat free” Crisco
3/4 c Sugar
3/4 c Brown sugar
1 t Vanilla
2 Eggs
2 c Semisweet chocolate morsels
Instructions
Cream butter, Crisco and sugars, add eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla. Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, Add gradually to creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips. Bake at 375° 10 to 12 minutes.
Bake them in a cookie sheet that has sides or a jelly roll pan. Bake until very well done. I think I used two batches to make 4 pans. I think this bowl had 6 panels. I cut each large pan into 2 smaller panels. The smaller panels were easier to manage than larger ones. I used wax paper as a pattern for seeing what size to cut the panels.
I recommend doing the following process slowly. After baking and cutting the panels (cut while warm) wait until the cookie panels are cool enough to shape around the hat box, but not so warm that they will slide down the icing. One panel did that and I couldn’t fix it. You smear Royal Icing on the hat box and then hold the panel on it until it sets. Do this for each piece.
After all the panels were set on the hat box, I let it dry out for 2 days. In those 2 days I made cookie dough into small balls, which I froze to bake on the day of the wedding. It was loosely covered in wax paper to keep it clean and still allow air in to dry it out.
On the day of the wedding, I set the cookie bowl on a tray big enough to hold it and added the decorator ruffles. You have to add the ruffle before you ice the final touches. After it was set in place (glued to t he tray with royal icing), I used 3-4 jars of Betty Crocker dark chocolate icing and piped it in all the spaces and all around the top.
Then, I put in the cookies that took many hours to bake. (I put a big white doily inside to make it look better for when the cookies became scarce.)
I hope I have not forgotten anything. I was learning how to do it as I went along using suggestions that I received from friends and family.
Thank you, MOMYS for all your help! Happy Baking!
Jody
On Tuesdays, my inlaws keep three of my kids so I can get some stuff done with the older kids. So, today, I took Elijah, Jeremiah and Londyn over to their house. I usually leave some schoolwork for them (well, for E & J who are 7 and 6) but today I was rushed and forgot it. But I happened to have my busy bag with me and it had their Awana books and one big (walmart type) math book that they could share. So I gave that to Memaw and Pepaw. This evening, after they got back home, Elijah (the 7 year old) brought a picture to me and said, “Look, mama.” I looked and then asked him who drew the picture he was showing me. He said, “I did.” I said, “did you trace it?” No, was his answer. I asked if someone helped him. No, again. I asked if he had something to look at to know how to draw it and he said yes, it was from his Awana book. It is a picture of a shepherd. He did an awesome job! I was so proud of him. I scanned it into the computer so I could email it to the other grandparents and then thought it would be neat to share it here as well. 
It is COLD here but our home is cozy with our trusty and faithful wood stove. 
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