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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">trotksi ash's pecan brown sugar biscuits </span></p>

This post is part of a week-long feature to help encourage fundraising for the charity Cookies for Kids Cancer. Read more in my previous post <a href="http://cravenmaven.com/2011/09/five-days-of-cookies-for-kids-with-cancer/">here</a>, and part one of the chronicles <a href="http://cravenmaven.com/2011/09/cookie-chronicles-part-i-the-vegan-chocolate-chip/">here</a>.
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The cookie story:</strong> Fact #1: I hate the nickname Brown Sugar. Fact #2: I have a very good friend who knows this and so insists on addressing me by this infernal moniker. Fact #3: I do however, LOVE brown sugar biscuits. 
One bitter cold blizzardy day I stumbled across the site <a href="http://www.trotski-ash.com/">Trotski-Ash.com</a> and fell in love. A plethora of recipes and stories fill it's pages, all penned by two gals in Australia who create for a living. This particular blizzard in question I came across <a href="http://www.trotski-ash.com/2009/07/recipes/brown-sugar-biscuits/">this recipe</a> for brown sugar biscuits. I like to make mine with a wee bit less flour than they suggest, in order for the cookies to be a little less dense.
The first batch I made was for a gathering at a friends house. One of the guests had a serious gluten intolerance and yet insisted on scarfing down a decent handful of said biscuits. At penalty of bad health! Yep, they are THAT good!
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Fundraising tip:</strong> Host a traditional bake sale! Okay, that may not be an <em>original</em> tip. But if you live in a big city and don't have a front yard - think of hosting your sale on your stoop. Maybe team up with some local kids who could concurrently run a lemonade stand, and allow patrons to sit on your stoop to enjoy the treats. Goodness know's city-dwellers love to sit, eat and wax lyrical!