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Spider Cookie Sandwiches Recipe
source : http://www.womansday.com/Recipes/Spider-Cookie-Sandwiches-Recipe
These irresistibly soft—and spooky!—cookies are a cinch to make, using cocoa powder mixed into ready-made cookie dough, and cream cheese and marshmallow cream for a dreamy middle layer.
- Active Time: 24 minutes
- Total Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
Recipe Ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tube (16 oz) refrigerated cookie
Recipe Preparation
1. In a sturdy electric mixer with paddle attachment, stir cocoa into cookie dough. Or, knead cocoa into cookie dough in large bowl. Shape into an 8-in.-long log; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight until firm.2. Heat oven to 350ºF. Unwrap dough; cut into 1⁄4- in.-thick slices (you should have 24). Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until set. Let cool slightly on baking
3. Beat cream cheese with electric mixer until smooth. Add marshmallow cream; beat until fluffy. Remove 1⁄3 cup, tint orange, and spoon into quart-size ziptop bag; reserve. Spread a slightly rounded Tbsp frosting on half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies, pressing gently to sandwich together.
4. Snip a tiny corner off bag with orange frosting; pipe web design on top and down sides of cookies. Refrigerate until serving.
A Little Bit of The USA Stirs a Lot of Emotion Downunder.
Labels: ebay, ebay selling, global knives, kitchen aid mixer, kitchenaid artisan mixer, ktichenaid, pasta making, scanpan, sunbeam mixmaster
So what a ride it's been into the BMW of kitchen appliances. I kid you not this has been extraordinary.
How did I come to selling kitchenaid mixers on ebay ? Simply through the advice from my partners son, but wow the journey we have been on.
I've been a member of ebay for years and have had those middle of the morning brainstorms of how to come up with my own million pixel idea, alas it's not so easy. We certainly got away from the fly by night internet schemes and have now stuck with ebay for over twelve months starting with selling second hand text books.
My partner had investigated ebay at great lengths and we were keen to become drop shippers or at least be able to work with wholesale items, but this path in Australia doesn't seem to be as easy.
In fact yes we started with some major errors in selecting our first products.
Ignorance is not bliss as they say and can put you out of business before you start. Hence selecting guitars from DHgate....whoops not a good idea...great to give you a feel for a fast moving sale, but hold on there you may just get sued. Anyway learned the hard way with an ebay violation.
Back to books we go, but still looking for something of interest to others we could sell. Cooking or Art....well art's a really hard sell on ebay particularly if you trying to sell your own, so cooking, but what to sell. What I think is good about cooking items is they rarely have a seasonal down turn outside of the typical couple months a year when many sales slow down.
In searching for what sells on ebay you can use https://adwords.google.com as a guide, but firstly ask someone in the industry, they will quickly tell you about some of the high quality products cooks are after. Using the key word tool can refine your product choice. It is important also to look a popular TV programs whether that's Martha Stewart, Masterchef Australia, The Circle, Iron Chef, Food Safari, Ellen, Oprah..as these are the shows that people watch and come to ebay to try and find for a good price. Look also at popular magazines, newspapers and movies as they can also give you some ideas to search with google adwords. Remember this will guide you to refine what you sell along with review sites. Be careful however as some review sites can be rigged by competitors. Something I have found over the course of the past 2 weeks.
A Little Bit of The USA Stirs a Lot of Emotion Downunder.
In Australia the Sunbeam Mixmaster is our version of the Kitchenaid mixer. Also a great mixer and an appliance that was built to last, my mother's having now lasted 40 years. " They don't make em like that any more ". Now I can't speak as a pastry chef, but both these products certainly are solid and stir emotions of cooks world wide.
Kitchenaid mixers have the advantage of quality plus colour selection, which becomes a center point of any kitchen. The stir in Australia is the price at which these Kitchenaid mixers are sold for here.
In Australia they range from anywhere from $630 - $700+, depending on chosen colours. There is one Kitchenaid recognized official distributor Peter Mcinnes, but doesn't mean there aren't other suppliers with equal quality products on the Australian market. As sellers looking for a product to sell the kitchenaid mixer certainly appealed as there seemed to have quite a price variation. We just simply looked for an Australian distributor willing to give us a reasonable margin. This is where the can of worms seemed to open.
Many main suppliers here do not want to deal with ebay sellers, whether they see it as a stigma, I am not certain, but what happens with competition is that the ultimate price for the Australian buyer starts to become more reasonable, but then all of a sudden people seem to forget this is a product for making beautiful pastries and cakes as well as assorted attachments for pasta making, mincing, ice-cream making and more.
I know cake judging competitions become competitive as well and the sunbeam mixmaster or kitchenaid mixer will give you award winning creations every time, but as sellers in Australia I think we can start to be a little less greedy. With the Australian dollar matching the USD we can look forward to more choice for the Australian market.
Cook up a storm.
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