Life is sweet in Hot Springs Village, but do you know what would make it even sweeter?
Update: Butter Braid bread and cookie sales have been extended a week. The last day to order is now March 28.
Altrusa International of Hot Springs Village just happens to have the answer: Cookies or Butter Braid pastry stocked in your freezer, treats so delicious your family and friends will think they came from a bakery.
Villagers already know how Butter Braid pastry bread can elevate a plain breakfast of scrambled eggs or provide the perfect accompaniment to a hot cup of coffee or tea. The Four Cheese and Herb version of Butter Braid adds a little pizzazz to dinner with friends.
This year’s semi-annual Altrusa fundraiser also offers melt-in-your-mouth cookies from Wooden Spoon frozen cookie dough, great for an after-school snack or adult indulgence. Bake just a few if you have no willpower, and the rest will wait in the freezer for another time. But if you believe “life is short, eat dessert first,” put all 40 from the package in the oven.
Both treats arrive frozen and can stay in your freezer until the time is right; then you thaw them overnight and pop them in the oven. The bread sits covered on a counter and rises perfectly in eight hours every time; the cookies thaw in the refrigerator overnight or in about 15 minutes outside the fridge.
Butter Braid pastries filled with a sweet center come in these varieties: Apple, Cinnamon, Cream Cheese, Blueberry and Cream Cheese, Strawberry and Cream Cheese, and Bavarian Cream with Chocolate Icing; each is $15. The Four Cheese and Herb bread and Caramel Rolls with Caramel Glaze are $16.50 each. Add a scoop of ice cream to those Caramel Rolls and guests will demand your recipe. A package of 40 squares of cookie dough costs $17 and comes in these varieties: Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Cranberry White Chunk, Peanut Butter, and Snickerdoodle. For $1 more, you probably need White Chunk Macadamia Nut, too.
Place your order with any Altrusan by March 20 or email AltrusaHSV.org. Altrusans will deliver orders to your home in April.
Proceeds from the fundraiser go to Altrusa International Foundation of Hot Springs Village, a 501 (C)(3) nonprofit organization. The funds will pay for Altrusa’s many service projects, which include scholarships to seniors at area high schools who maintain a 4.0 average for all four years of high school; scholarships for nontraditional nursing students at National Park College; Comfort Kits containing clothing for victims of sexual assault, whose clothing is taken as evidence; free hearing screenings for the community; Birthday Books for students at Mountain Pine Elementary School and many other community projects. Altrusa of HSV is part of Altrusa International, a worldwide service organization founded in 1917. The HSV chapter has served the community since 2004. Find information about the club at Facebook.com/AltrusaHSV or districteight.altrusa.org/hot-springs-village. To learn more or attend a meeting, contact Membership Chair Mary Kramer at 215-740-0678 or email mqdelp@gmail.com.
Featured image: Altrusans Karen Brines (left) and Rebecca Elliott distribute Butter Braid pastry in 2023. This year, the club also has cookies.
Submitted by Altrusa International of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
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