Cookie season is right here and we’re swapping the Dinner Social gathering for the AK COOKIE PARTY! It can nonetheless be a enjoyable month-long sequence the place we encourage you to cook dinner a recipe with us, besides this week it’s all about one in every of my favourite cookies. What higher strategy to rejoice the vacations than to do it alongside the AK crew and a whole bunch of different foodies?!
IMPORTANT: please scroll down and browse beneath for all the deets on this month’s recipe, key dates for the month, how you can enter the giveaway, and our charity of the month!
Should you haven’t but, enter your identify & e-mail beneath to get Cookie Social gathering updates all through the month and to be the primary in line to see subsequent month’s recipe.

December’s Cookie Social gathering recipe
We’re SO excited to share the recipe of our AK Cookie Social gathering sequence: Unbelievable Gingerbread Oatmeal Cream Pies! It’s the last word vacation cookie recipe for events, cookie swaps, and anytime you need a candy deal with.
We’ve got many alternative methods that you could customise these gingerbread oatmeal cream pies to actually make them your individual. Test them out beneath and, in fact, learn by the recipe weblog put up itself for all the suggestions you’ll want.
- Can I make them dairy free? Sure! Merely use vegan butter within the dough and within the cream pie filling.
- Can I make them gluten free? I haven’t examined a gluten free model of those cookies, so I can’t suggest a substitute however a gluten free all objective flour may go. Let me know in case you do within the feedback!
- How about vegan? A reader commented {that a} flax egg labored within the gingerbread oatmeal cookies, so be happy to present {that a} attempt! Then make sure to use vegan butter to maintain the cookie sandwiches vegan.
Right here’s how the Cookie Social gathering works
- The recipe: on the primary Wednesday of every month we’ll share a reader favourite Bold Kitchen recipe to make that month. You’ve the complete month to make the recipe!
- The giveaway: Whenever you make the recipe (anytime throughout the month!) you might have two alternative ways to enter to win a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer. We’ll randomly choose a winner on the finish of the month. See beneath for the 2 methods to share! USA & Canada solely.
Two methods to enter the giveaway
Whenever you make the recipe, there are two alternative ways to share your creation with us with a purpose to enter to win the Kitchenaid Stand Mixer (U.S. & Canada solely):
1. On the weblog: go away a remark and price the recipe right here with the hashtag #AKCookieParty, plus your identify and e-mail (so we all know you made it!) Scroll all the way in which previous the recipe itself within the weblog to the place it says “Depart a remark & a ranking.” Increase!
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2. On social media: Share a photograph of your recipe creation on social through Instagram (tales or in-feed), TikTok, or in our Fb Group by tagging @ambitiouskitchen and including the hashtag #AKCookieParty. *Please observe for Instagram your profile have to be public in order that we will see your posts.

Key dates
- Wednesday, December seventh: December’s recipe is right here! On this date, you can begin baking & sharing your recipe images on social and on the weblog.
- Sunday, January 1st: the final day to submit your recipe images on social and on the weblog.
- Monday, January 2nd: giveaway winner chosen, notified through e-mail, and shared on social.
- Wednesday, January 4th: January’s Dinner Social gathering recipe introduced!
Let’s give again
Every month we’ll choose a brand new group the place we’ll donate funds as a strategy to unfold the love and do some good. This month we’ll be donating to The Love Fridge — a Chicago-based group that gives 24/7 entry to meals in neighborhoods going through meals insecurity. Neighbors can donate and take what they want, at any time when they want it.
Should you’d like to hitch us in supporting The Love Fridge, be taught extra and donate right here!
Be a part of the social gathering
Prepared to hitch the social gathering and get baking? Should you haven’t but, enter your e-mail beneath and we’ll ship you the recipe as quickly because it drops at first of every month, reminders concerning the giveaway, announce the winners, and extra. Let’s do that!
Previous Dinner Events
- February: Candy & Spicy Sizzling Chili Rooster Noodles, donating to Digs with Dignity.
- March: Candy & Spicy Sesame Rooster Meatball Bowls, donating to Worldwide Rescue Committee.
- April: Vegan Pasta Primavera with Creamy Garlic Cashew Sauce, donating to FoodCorps.
- Might: Rattling Good Salmon Taco Bowls For Two, donating to Nationwide Abortion Federation Hotline Fund
- June: 30 Minute Brown Butter Goat Cheese Grilled Veggie Orzo, donating to the Nationwide Parks Basis
- July: Loopy Good Road Corn Rooster Tacos, donating to the Courageous House
- August: Pesto Rooster Stuffed Zucchini Boats, donating to the ACLU
- September: One Pan Thai-Impressed Coconut Yellow Curry Rooster & Rice, donating to Undertake a Classroom
- October: Spicy Black Bean Rooster Enchiladas with Pumpkin Bitter Cream Sauce, donating to Techos Pa Mi Gente
- November: Dad’s Creamy & Tacky Au Gratin Potatoes, donating to Free Root Operation.

