Wednesday, October 15, 2008

New Website!!

We have a new website, designed to make ALL our lives easier!
Please visit www.bakinggals.com
From there, you will be able to find out all of our info, meet the Round 4 Hosts, and once you have registered, you can join a team with a click of a button!
Please come on by ...and register!!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Team Adrienne's House Round 3 Round Up!

Can you believe Round 3 is over already? Me neither! But I am ready for Round 4!
Here is a recap of what Team Adrienne’s House sent out to our soldier Sgt. Mark Martin:

Adrienne – Adrienne’s House – Peanut Butter M&M Rice Krispie Treats

Madame Zhou – Madame Chow’s KitchenChunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters

Denise Corradetti – Corradetti Clan - Chocolate Chip, Sugar Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies and Brownies and some single serve Iced tea mix, granola bars and a local favorite Butterscotch Taskykakes

Erin Garrard – Our Bread and Butter – Macadamia Coconut Bars and Popcorn Balls

Mary Ann Murray - Macadamia Cherry Lime Biscotti and Almond Biscotti.

Stacey Elizabeth Doniger - peanut butter cookies, Butterfinger Bars, Snickers Bar, candy, toiletriesletters from me and some pictures/letters from my 1st grade students

Brenda Watwood – Ranger Cookies and a savory cookie Pepper, Cheese, Cornmeal Nut cookies, and tossed in a big bag of gummy bears and some breath mints

Beverly Hittle - chocolate chip, scottie, oatmeal coconut cookies

Greg Johnson – Oatmeal Cookie Guy - oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and coffee cake cookies, and some Halloween candy--Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids

Beth Greenberg - Pumpkin Cookies with Chocolate Chips and Walnuts and Chocolate Chip Cookies in a Cookie and some gum and powdered drink mix.

Danielle Crane – Make No Little Meals and her friends Nikki, Lindsay and Robin – Made With Love - Choco. Rice Crispy Treats, Choco. Peanut Butter Biscotti, White Choco. Almond, Cranberry, Pecan Biscotti, Banana Walnut Bread, Choco. Softie Cookies With White Coco. Chips, Oatmeal Brownie Gems, Oatmeal Craisin Raisin Cookies And Pumpkin Culster Cookies, also included was couple bottle of Coffee Syrup.

HOLY COW! Are you as impressed as I am? This was an absolutely amazing Team. Hope to see everyone for Round 4!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Lots of Happenings...

All kinds of things going on!!
We are just wrapping up Round Three - a very successful round I must say!! We had the 10 posted teams you saw here on the site, plus 2 overflow teams that I hosted for "late bakers" and even a private team from Myrtle Beach!! What great idea by Chris from Legends In Concert of Myrtle Beach - she organized her staff, got a soldier related to the group and then baked and they shipped 25 packages to their troop! What an effort! Please take the time to visit their blog...they really did a great job!

Another great effort is in the works by Fran, one of our hosts from this round. She has decided to spin off a local chapter in Northern Ohio for bakers who don't blog like we do...so she is rounding cookies up in a whole new way. Check out her spin-off at http://ohbakes.blogspot.com
Good luck Fran!

There were also countless groups of bakers all over the country (and even abroad!! We're going global!) that banded together and baked in mass quantities this go-round...I jus hope all of you will join in again for Round 4! This will be a great round to get in on - Halloween ship dates! Think of how much fun you can send in a Halloween goody box!

We are working on getting a new, improved and user-friendly site up - but even if it isn't quite ready, I will hopefully have all of the teams announced by the end of the week so that you can sign on for a soldier. keep in mind, you MUST sign on EVERY month you want to bake...just because you baked one round doesn't mean we expect you to bake again...and each round offers up new soldiers into the mix. So please, sign on to a new team every round if you intend to bake.

Lastly, we have been in the news EVERYWHERE it seems over the past month...many places I didn't even know! So, if you saw us or heard us somewhere, please add it to the comments on this post - I would love to know! A big thanks to Morgan, one of our bakers for getting us some airtime in San Diego on KSON FMs Morning Show - I hope to have the soundclip up later - and also to Pam in Texas for getting us on the Tyler TX news with her fabulous baking!!

Email me if you would like info on how to get on your own local news or in the local paper - you deserve a lot of credit!!