A tasty tribute
Cookie university celebrates 250 years of sweet treats
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Cookie Table University, a celebration of cookies hosted by the Wedding Cookie Table Community, held its 11th annual event on Sunday at Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe, featuring 250 cookie recipes spanning the history of the sweet treat in honor of America无毛视频檚 250th anniversary.
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The cookies 无毛视频� thousands of them 无毛视频� were arranged on two 40-foot cookie tables, and attendees selected a dozen cookies to take home.
That, it turns out, was the hard part.
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About 180 bakers who volunteered for the event were assigned cookies that spanned U.S. history. The goal, said Laura Magone, founder of the Wedding Cookie Table Community, was to tell the country无毛视频檚 history, using cookies that represented important historical figures or events dating to 1776.
The variety of cookies was remarkable: the original 1913 recipe for Girl Scout cookies; an original Toll House cookie; a cookie made with Tang; and cookies enjoyed and/or baked by presidents and their spouses including the Eisenhowers, Laura Bush (cowboy cookies), and Barack Obama (crunchy cookies).
AnnMarie O无毛视频橰ourke of Grove City, a member of the Wedding Cookie Table Community, baked three varieties of cookies, including Betty Ford无毛视频檚 chocolate cookie and a Pope Leo XIV lofthouse-style cookie.
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For her part, Magone made a 无毛视频減oor man无毛视频檚 cookie无毛视频� from the Great Depression era, which she adapted, using whole milk Greek yogurt instead of shortening.
Other cookies: 1937 Hindenburg Kirsch cookies, Paul Revere mini-rum bar cakes, Mister Rogers rainbow cookies, Andy Warhol tomato soup sugar cookies, Susan B. Anthony peach cobbler cookies, women无毛视频檚 suffrage pfeffernusse cookies, World War I bacon fat soft molasses cookies, and Marlon Brando homemade mallobars.
More than 1,500 people attended the two sessions, with attendees lining up an hour before the first session started at 9 a.m.
Bakers and cookie lovers 无毛视频� many bedecked in red, white and blue 无毛视频� came from as far as Seattle, California, Michigan, and Iowa to pick out cookies, participate in Cookie Table University, which included vendors and activities, including cookie decorating classes.
Cyndi Eicholtz and Linda Kempski made the trek from Baltimore, Md., and brought along their husbands, Bob and Mike, who ended up having as much fun as their wives.
Eicholtz stumbled across the Wedding Cookie Table Community website 无毛视频� the group now has 406,000 members across the country and internationally 无毛视频� while she was researching wedding cookie tables, which she hadn无毛视频檛 heard of until a friend attended a wedding that included a large cookie spread.
She attended her first Cookie Table University last year and was excited to return for the America 250 event.
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The tables 无毛视频� one formal, one picnic-themed 无毛视频� featured Duncan & Miller glassware, and dozens of the cookies were displayed on the glassware. The glassware company produced some of the country无毛视频檚 most well-known and beautiful glassware at its Washington facility from 1893 until 1955.
Proceeds from Cookie Table University benefit the Monongahela Area Historical Society无毛视频檚 renovations of the Longwell House.
Magone said she was thrilled with the event and the efforts of all of the volunteers who worked for months to organize it. The event is sponsored by Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency.
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