Spent a couple hours this a.m. making Rice Krispie Treat hearts to tuck into CARE packages being sent to B.A. students away at college. Hand-cut 36+ just-right sized hearts, with lashings of white & dark chocolate, each individually packaged in a cellophane bag. So loverly when something looks just the way I hoped they would!
Making them took me back to the first time I can remember making something for a crowd. It was 7th grade, our class Christmas party, and I made my first batch of Krazy Krunch. Popped corn covered with a caramelly concoction made from butter, sugar & clear corn syrup. It disappeared FAST and I was hooked on making goodies.
By my freshman year in high school, I was churning out cookies & other goodies for the girls dorm. It wasn't until my senior year that the girls dorm had a kitchen, so anything homemade was incredibly appreciated & to have it home-baked by someone who sort of reminds you of your younger sister, way back home ~ I was a hit on every level!
It built from there, lots of wonderful stories over 40+ years, culminating in last year's Bryn Athyn Bounty's farm market & doing DYI cupcakes with dozens of smiling kids, cooling down a passle of boys with Mango Mango ice pops.
50 years ago, it was Krazy Krunch. Today, it was Gilded RKT Hearts for away students. Tomorrow, it will be cupcakes for the 02/09 reception at Artists' Gallery & Sunday's "Gold Bar" bake sale at Cairnwood. Next up - ??
Join me in celebrating food as a connector, a community builder, a relationship cementer. And the source of so many wonderful stories & memories!
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