Give a gift of the heart this season: decorated cookies, donated to your local shelter, senior center, or food pantry. Here’s how:

• Our Drop In & Decorate Cookies for Donation Kit includes the key elements you need to host an afternoon of cookie-baking and decorating.
• Invite friends and family to your home to bake cookies, decorate, and deliver to the charity of your choice.
• Kit includes mixes for rollout sugar cookies and vanilla icing; three holiday cookie cutters; red, green, and blue colored sugars; and disposable pastry bags (plus reusable tips), for decorating.

WHY TO BUY: More and more people are looking for ways to give back to their community; and to do things with their families, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and worship groups that are not about spending money. Drop In and Decorate uses baking to connect individuals with each other and with their communities. King Arthur Flour offers this kit in conjunction with ninecooks.com, a group that grew out of the shared cooking experience of food writer and cookbook author Lydia Walshin and a group of eight friends in rural northwest Rhode Island. Together, we believe in the power of baking to strengthen communities.

Click here for ideas for hosting your own gathering: Drop In & Decorate