Cooking for Camp

Heather and Megan are going to church girls camp in June.  To help each girl raise money their youth group hosted a spaghetti dinner and dessert auction.  The money raised by the spaghetti dinner was divided evenly between all the girls; however, the money from the dessert auction was applied to whichever girl brought the item.

My girls spent the morning at Grandma's house baking.  Then we came home and did some more baking at our house.  It was SO MUCH FUN!  Their dad loves pecan pie but Grandma only makes it at Thanksgiving and Christmas.  The girls wanted to learn how to make it for dad and practiced by making two for the dessert auction.  Grandma was kind enough to have them make a third one for Dad.  He was appropriately excited!

We also made triple chocolate brownies, no bake cookies (Papa's favorite!), lemony lemon brownies (Heather wanted to try this new recipe), and Cookie Monster cupcakes.  Everyone was very generous and the girls earned all the money they needed for camp.  Megan was excited because the highest selling item was her Cookie Monster cupcakes.  She said next year she will make a whole bunch!

Megan made chocolate cupcakes.  The eyes are white chocolate melts and chocolate chips glued on with white frosting.  We bought a small bag of mini chocolate chip cookies and made blue frosting.  I piped the frosting onto the cupcakes and Megan added the cookies and eyes.  We used a special frosting tip -- Wilton 233.  The frosting took a while, but Megan was patient and SO excited about how cute they turned out.