Saturday the Friends of Richards Memorial Library held our first Appraisal Day fundraiser. I had to find something quick and easy to bake up late Friday night. I'd been craving Cranberries, so I went to Ocean Spray's website and tried their Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cheese Bars. The dry ingredients mixed together well but I did put the whole thing in the fridge to cool while the oven was warming up. I find it best to do this if the butter starts making the crumble texture turn to mush. (You can also catch a bit of my cherry apron in the background. It was my fist sewing project!) Next I mixed the wet ingredients together while the bottom crust was baking in the oven. You pour this over the hot crust and then spread the reserved crumble on top of the whole thing and put back in the oven. 
The result is a very heavy pan!I taste tested the next moring and was slightly disappointed that there was so much in them. I think maybe 1/2 a bag of choco chips would have been enough, or maybe it would have been better to have a larger cheese layer since it came out so thin. I wasn't thrilled and my husband didn't come back begging for seconds, but I put them on a platter and brought them anyway! Come on, you would have too. They were still pretty good!
Well, whatever reservations I had about bringing them disappeared when I saw people gobbling them up. There were several baked goods and these were gone within an hour! Fortunately we didn't run out of cookies/bars/bread - we had just enough!
Appraisal Day was our new idea for a spring fundraiser. An appraisal house in Boston (Skinner Inc - you may have seen them on Antiques Road Show) sent two appraisers for five hours. We sold out after 2 1/2 hours, so it was a very sucessful event. I saw SO many interesting items! There was a gumball machiene that looked and worked like a slot machiene, a ladder that collapsed into one long beam, and my favorite - a stunning crystal bowl that looked like it had sunflowers all around it. One woman had Barbie and Ken dolls from 1962 in their original boxes with the little booklets in the original plastic. They had never even been taken out of the boxes. Apparently Ken isn't worth that much but Barbie was worth quite a bit.
My mom got this Native American knife from her father. The appraiser told us it was used for skinning buffalo and is fairly rare. It's not worth the $20K I was hoping it would be, but it's still a very neat item to have. 
2 comments:
Just made the choc chip cranberry cheese bars. Hmmm. Verrry tasty. Good when slightly warm, too. Who would've thunk? Thanks for the tip! (come on over if you want to give them a 2nd chance. better hurry!)
-AndyMac (LeeeesaMac's husband)
Thanks for putting the link to your blog on the Ocean Spray review. That was very helpful! I am thinking of making a half batch of these, but am wondering if they'll be too rich. Then again, that's never stopped me! Thanks for the review. I guess I will have to try these.
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