Bake Sale Bags

This week HWNSNBP asked me to help out and make something for a bake sale at work. His group was participating in a fund raising event for the month. So, I told him I would make some ginger snap cookies and put them in some cute packages. If you've been here before you may remember the bag in box(es) that I made for the 4th of July . This is the same pattern but I used Halloween DSP this time. They each contained a dozen ginger snaps (or spice cookies as I usually refer to them). Each bag sold for $5 and all told, they made over $300 that day.

Here is a recipe for you and this time it is for the cookies and not the paper craft:

1 c. sugar

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. ground ginger

1/2 tsp. ground cloves

3/4 c. shortening

1/4 c. molasses

1 egg

small bowl of sugar

Mix flour, sugar, salt, soda and spices. Cut in shortening. Stir in molassses and egg.

Shape into 1 inch balls (a melon baller works well for this), roll in bowl of sugar. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350º for 10-12 minutes. Let cookies cool on rack.

Makes approximately 5 dozen.

Don't overcook these as they will get hard. It's best to take them out right away so they remain a little soft.

Hope you enjoy!