It’s time for 12 Days of Cookies, FoodNetwork.com’s annual cookie swap. Each day visit us here on the Dish for a peek at new holiday cookies, party-planning tips and top techniques for rolling, spooning, slicing, baking and decorating delicious sweet treats to give – or keep – from favorite Food Network chefs. Then visit Cooking Channel’s blog for great takes on holiday baking from Cooking Channel chefs and Food People alike – cookies by the dozen to celebrate all season.
Turn ready-made sugar cookie dough into a dessert fit for anybody who graces your doorstep this season. Just add raspberry jam, lemon extract and chopped pecans, and voila — Sandra Lee’s Raspberry Cake Bars! Personally I think they’d be just as good for breakfast — especially if I can snag the corner piece.
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It was announced today that Food Network has 10 nominations in the 2009 Daytime Emmy Awards!!
Check out the categories our guys and gals are up for:
Outstanding Culinary Program
Barefoot Contessa – Food Network
Giada at Home – Food Network
Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie – PBS
Grill It! With Bobby Flay – Food Network
Simply Ming – PBS
Outstanding Lifestyle/ Culinary Host
30 Minute Meals – Food Network
Barefoot Contessa – Food Network
Grill It! With Bobby Flay – Food Network
Peter Perfect – The Style Network
Simply Ming – PBS
Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary Program
Giada at Home – Food Network
Guy’s Big Bite – Food Network
The Martha Stewart Show – Syndicated
The Old House – PBS
Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling
Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee – Food Network
The Bonnie Hunt Show – Syndicated
The Ellen Degeneres Show – Syndicated
The Tyra Banks Show – Syndicated
The View – ABC
Outstanding Achievement in Makeup
Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee – Food Network
The Bonnie Hunt Show – Syndicated
The Price is Right – CBS
The Tyra Banks Show – Syndicated
The View – ABC
“The show will be telecast on the CW Television Network on Sunday, August 30th, 2009 from the historic Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.”
Whats better than George Washington on your dollar bill? Sandra Lee! Take a lookey-loo at what the SC got her hands on:
Ms. Lee was just in the FN offices talking biz. That’s how I got my mitts on this green. The word from the top, “she is very smart and very charming!” And I got the Sandra Lee dollar – whoo-hoo!
Now if only I could get her to sign this bill….
Until then….Heres to eating well!
Secretary Confidential
As the season of giving (thanks and otherwise) approaches, it feels like a good time to revisit an important Food Network friend and ally.
Share Our Strength, FN’s official charity partner, tackles a vitally critical, yet simple mission. They work to ensure that no child in America grows up hungry.
Chef Duff (Ace of Cakes) and Sandra Lee (Semi-Homemade) 
did their part at The Great American Bake Sale earlier this year. Want to do your part? Get your notification for the 2009 Great American Bake Sale.
Read more about Share Our Strength and their partnership with Food Network or watch a quick video. It’s just another way the entire Food Network family gets involved behind the scenes.
FN’ers love their holidays but no one does Halloween like Semi-Homemade star, Sandra Lee. Aside from coming up with some of the most inventive tricks, treats, cocktails and tablescapes of this spooky season, Sandra knows costumes.
We aren’t talking about bedsheet ghosts and rubber masks. Sandra could literally step onto movie sets with the costumes she discovers.
We caught her between takes, wardrobe changes and a million other things as she shot her AMAZING Halloween Queens episode which aired earlier this week. Imagine cooking, hosting and finishing a long day of shooting — all while balancing a huge, top-heavy wig on your head.
What’s Halloween without tricky costumes?
If you missed Halloween Queens, fear not. Another great Sandra-fied Halloween episode airs today at 4pm ET / PT. Sandra…or should we say Marilyn, or Liz, or Vivien, serves up spicy bat wings and sweet & sour eyeballs, to name a few.
Can’t wait? Check out Sandra’s Greatest Halloween Hits:
12 Sandras in 60 Seconds
Want more Sandra Lee Halloween ideas? Check out her Halloween Sock Hop!
