So…I have this friend. Her name is Amy, and she’s incredibly funny and sweet and giving and totally awesome. She’s pretty much one of my most favorite people on the planet. She always makes me laugh and she’s someone whose opinion I truly value. The weird thing is that I’ve never met her.

She’s the blogger behind Very Culinary, one of my most favorite food blogs. Amy always “keeps it real” and she never pulls punches. She’s funny and honest and always sincere, and I love and admire her for that.

I mention her because she’s my inspiration for this post. Never one to turn down an opportunity to help someone, Amy has been involved with Cookies for Kids Cancer for the past couple of years. Every time I read her words and see the delicious cookies she bakes, I always think “I should do that, too”. But by the time the holidays roll around again, I’ve forgotten about my plans. Thankfully, GLAD reminded me this year! GLAD reached out to bloggers (through the Foodbuzz Tastemaker program) asking us to participate. They covered the cost of all the cookie ingredients and sent bags, aprons, stickers and other things we needed to host our own bake sale. All we had to do was donate our time. Who could possibly say no to such a proposition? Especially when the beneficiaries are sweet children who are terribly ill?

We made about twenty dozen of these Lemon Shortbread Cookies as well as another 8 dozen of these Fresh Cranberry, Chocolate & Oatmeal cookies. We asked friends and family to buy some of our goodies and we were sold out in no time! One bachelor friend bought half of them himself to give to co-workers (isn’t that a great idea?!). But we’re not quite finished: we’ve gotten a few more orders as word spread so we’ll be fulfilling those in the next couple of weeks (and you can be sure that I’ll post the delicious results of our work ;)

You can help, too, and there’s no baking or buying required. All you have to do is exchange a virtual cookie with a friend and GLAD will donate up to $1.00 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer for each cookie sold, exchanged or given through the end of December – up to $100,000! C’mon – be a good cookie and help!

And if all you want to do is just make these yummy cookies, that’s fine, too. These lemony, buttery cookies are perfect for the holidays! They mix together in a snap, then all you have to do is form two cylinders from the dough and refrigerate. Once the dough is nice and firm, just slice them up and bake. Drizzle on a glaze made from lemon juice and powdered sugar and you’ll be in shortbread heaven!

I have partnered with The Glad Products Company through DailyBuzz to help promote their Food Storage products. I have been compensated for my time commitment to work with this product. However, my opinions are entirely my own and I have not been paid to publish positive comments. Thank you GLAD!