by Noella Noelophile®
Scents of gingerbread. The taste of warm chocolate chips. Glistening sugar atop snowy meringues.
Tempting? Either for eating or creating?
If you’re asking, “WHEN? WHERE?”, the answer is, “tomorrow, in Long Beach”. And the “what” is Justin Rudd’s nonprofit Community Action Team’s “Christmas Cookie Contest”!
And you still have time to bake and enter, if you’d like.
Tomorrow afternoon, December 9th, local bakers are invited to deliver a platter of their best homemade specialties to Bay Shore Church’s Fellowship Hall between 4 and 5 pm. Private judging happens for the next 90 minutes. Then, at 6:45, the winners are announced.
If you’re one of the top five winners, not only do you get “bragging rights” (and rumor has it that Santa’s one of the judges, so he’s not easy to impress!), but your favorite local charity, church or school receives a $50 donation! Here’s the link to the contest rules.
Meanwhile, there’ll be a cooky-tasting reception, at 6:45, for which you and your guests can pay $5 and see just what led to the judges’ decisions as prizes are awarded! (Community Action Team offers a fantastic free 24-piece brass and percussion Christmas concert you can attend in the interim, but it always “sells out”. This year is, unfortunately, no exception–though there’s still a link to the waitlist.)
Happy baking and/or eating!
Community Action Team’s “Long Beach Christmas Cookie Contest” happens Sunday, December 9th, at Bay Shore Church, 5100 East The Toledo, southeast of Livingston Drive, in Long Beach. Participants can register online or on site, and entry is free. Bakers receive free admission to the cookie-tasting reception at 6:45. For everyone else, admission is $5.