Baking Gals- Round 7

Round 7 for Baking Gals has begun!! I signed up for Team Heather Drive again.

Heather has a ton of info about the process and stuff on her blog- check it out.

I encourage you to go sign up for a team & get baking!

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Operation Baking Gals

On Thursday night I baked and Friday I was finally able to send out my Baking Gals box! It is currently en route to Afghanistan, complete with the following:

Chocolate Cake cookie sandwiches


Brownie Bites
And sugar cookies with buttercream. I just realized that I don't have a picture of them! I put some blue sprinkles on them.. as they are the only non-holiday sprinkles that I have, other than the rainbows that I already used on the cookie sandwiches.

In addition to the baked goods, I included:

The makings for s'mores

And a can of Spaghetti-O's and a microwaveable meal of some sort (beef, not pork!).


A close up of my cookie packaging. The Baking Gals website has an FAQ that explains how to best package the cookies. I layered the cookies and put some apple peel in the paper towels. Hopefully they make it!!

You can kind of see the sugar cookies on the top left corner.

I also included in the box a little note with info about me/my job, etc. Not too exciting, but I figured that the cookies would be the exciting part of the package anyway :)

I loved doing this- I will take any excuse to bake, but I love knowing that this will make someone(s) happy and feel a bit more connected to home.

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Operation Baking Gals

Man, I'm on a roll tonight.

I just signed up to take part in Round 6 of Operation Baking Gals. I am on one of the two Heather Drive teams.

Operation Baking Gals sends the homemade cookies, etc to soldiers stationed overseas. I'm super looking forward to having an excuse to bake and to make someone happy at the same time.

If you think you would like to sign up also, check out Heather's blog and click around to sign up!

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