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Bake Cookies, Help Kids

May 13, 2013

Baking, for many of us, is cathartic. The measuring, mixing, and waiting heals us and comforts us. We feel better after the cookies come out of the oven than we did before. Plus, there are cookies.

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After her young son's cancer diagnosis in 2007, Gretchen Witt responded the only way she knew how: she began baking cookies. A lot of cookies. To raise funds for pediatric cancer research, she baked 96,000 cookies for a weeks-long bake sale that raised over $400,000. And so Cookies for Kids' Cancer was born.

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Since then, Cookies for Kids' Cancer has inspired an army of cookie lovers to host bake sales across the country. And now, Gretchen has published All The Good Cookies, a cookbook that includes some of her favorite recipes. In honor of its publication, we've rounded up some of our favorite cookie recipes. We hope that they will inspire you to host a bake sale of your own -- or that you'll pick up a copy of Gretchen's new book (all royalties go to charity!). You can also donate directly on their website. Because children should be given a chance to grow and live, and cookies should be baked in abundance.

Two-Bite Buckeye Cookies from Midge

Buckeye

 

Greek Honey-Spice Cookies from Kristy Mucci

Greek

 

Elsa's Rye Cookies from amanda

Rye

 

Sweet Tea Cookies from TheRunawaySpoon

Sweet Tea

 

Cardamom Currant Snickerdoodles from fiveandspice

Best

  

Magical Marvelous Memorable Cookies from drbabs

Magical

 

Crispy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies from merrill 

 

Merrill

 

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies from amanda

Choc

 

DIY Brussels Cookies from Lara

Bruss

  

Peanut Butter Cookies from merrill

PB

 

Cardamom, Orange, and Chocolate Ribbon Cookies from sdebrango

Orange

Still want more cookies? Grab a copy of All the Good Cookies -- your money will go to a good cause, and you'll have a few more cookie recipes up your sleeve. You should probably use them to host a bake sale of your own.

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