Christmas Cookie Letterbox

Christmas Cookie Contest

Poor Sugarcane Suzie…she is a wash-out at the annual neighborhood Christmas Cookie-off. Every year, she diligently baked her offering, only to come in LAST place every time. She’s tried recipes for ginger snap, snickerdoodle, lebkuchen, brown butter spritz, spingerle, divinity, snowballs, Florentines, peanut butter cup, biscotti, ansac, pfeffernuesse and thumbprints—what she now calls the unlucky baker’s dozen.

This year, she was determined to do better—in fact her dream was to beat Perfect Polly, so she got a little help from a local establishment dedicated to the culinary arts. So determined was our Suzie, that she entered cookies in every category – all 19 of them! Luckily for Suzie (and everyone’s tastebuds), she had better luck this year, finishing in the following ways:

Cookie (Placement)

Pepparakor 10

Mexican Wedding 4

Gingerbread 4

Shortbread 2

Zimsterne 5

Snowball 1

Pinwheels 2

Checkerboards 12

Oatmeal 5

Linzer Cookies 1

Macaroon 2

Rum Raisin Balls 1

Meringue Kisses 6

Hermits 2

Lemon Bars 3

Tuiles 2

Chocolate Chip 6

Stained Glass 2

Blondies 6

She didn’t beat Perfect Polly in every category, but Suzie was greatly pleased with the results…and we hope you will be too.

Notes:

• This is a limited time box. Probably to be pulled mid-January.
• This is an urban box. As such, it requires you to be sneaky and aware of your surroundings. Your prize is under a large piece of concrete. I suggest that you return to your car to stamp in (you will probably want to park in the far west parking space). This is not a great one to do with a large group. If looking confident while retrieving the box is not something you’re comfortable with, I’d suggest selecting a different box to attempt.