FLB - The Official Light Tour Cookie Baker

I've read your blogs and about your baking for Christmas. This is a small part of my baking for the week. I'm the Official Light Tour Cookie Baker for our local newspaper. One of the columnists in our newspaper, The Morning Call, puts together routes so you can drive around and see the best Christmas lights in the surrounding three counties. He also raises money for the local food bank by taking bids from people to drive around with him during Christmas week. People get very generous. Last year he raised about $12,000 plus many of the people with spectacular displays put out boxes to collect canned goods. The people with winning bids also get boxes of my cookies. This week I've made about 50 pounds of cookies but still have several more to make. Fortunately my joy is in making them, not eating them. I also send boxes to family and friends all over the country. They expect them.

Here's a pointer to yesterday's column on the Light Tour. http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/all-bill-white-xmas-lights-2009,0,2578017.story Take a look around. The photo on this page is not the very best lights. That honor belongs to a house on Sunset Drive in Bethlehem. The house looks like "National Lampoon does Christmas". Take a look at these photos. http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/holidays/billwhite/all-lighttour-121609-pictures,0,695827.photogallery

And here's an article about Bill White, the columnist, asking for bids -- http://www.mcall.com/news/all-bw_5food-bill-white-christmas-lights.7102261de,0,5023466.column