We are down to less than a week until the Queen City Mischief and Magic Festival, and the line-up of speakers rocks this year, starting with our own Headmaster. I am going to be crazy busy this year, but I hope it will all be worth it. I look forward to hosting John and hopefully impressing him with both Mary Baldwin University and Anthony and Cleopatra at the Blackfriars.
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I like to bake special cookies for special occasions, and QCMM is no exception. I usually do several batches of treats to hand out for trivia prizes and give as thank-you’s to our wonderful volunteers. I spent most of yesterday with my rolling pin and Harry Potter cookie cutters, baking up some specialty treats. My personal favorite is the Sorting Hat, made with an apple-cinnamon dough that is the perfect color. A bonus: no decorating needed!
Even better, my cookie-cutter collection is extensive enough that I can create some Potter-themed goodies with other cutters. A Christmas reindeer becomes Prongs, a dog (in my favorite chocolate dough) makes a great Padfoot and I turned a train into the Hogwarts Express. My newest edition is a fawn I ran across at Michael’s, which has become my Silver Doe.
I’m still looking for a cute frog cookie cutter for Chocolate Frog cookies, but in the meantime I’ll settle for my molds. In addition to the Chocolate Frogs, I crushed up some candy mints and made some white Peppermint Toads.
If any of our regular Hogpro readers are coming to the festival, stop by the talks at MBU at the Wharf, next to Pufferbellies Toys (which is another place you don’t want to miss!) I’ll try to slip you a cookie, or possibly one of my Cauldron Cake Pops, from the speakers’ stash.
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