Lopez Senior Center has plates and plates of delicious confections lovingly baked at home, perfect for holiday gifts or your own personal dessert. Their Third Annual Christmas Cookie Sale is coming to Woodmen Hall on Saturday, December 14, from 10 a.m. -2 p.m.

It’s such a neat event, because a lot of the community participates,” says Organizer Karin Gandini. Over 50 people bring in home-baked cookies, which are then sold at six dollars per pound, and can be mixed and matched to create tempting samplers. Cakes and pies are also on sale, priced according to size and ingredients. If the community is lucky, Joan Congdon’s rum cake will make a repeat appearance, and folks should be on the lookout for Kay Berg’s truffles.

Proceeds from the sale help pay for the utilities at Woodmen Hall. Karin explains that, while the Friends of Woodmen Hall raised money for the big expenditures of insulation and painting, ongoing utilities payments are just as vital. Additional funds are brought in through renting the Hall, but never enough to cover all the Senior Center’s needs. “The heat, the phone, the propane for cooking, says Mary O’Bryant, Senior Services Coordinator, “those ongoing expenses never go away.”

More than a bake sale, the Christmas Cookie Sale is a social event. Tea and coffee are served, and, with cookie samples available for a dollar, people can sit at a table with friends and enjoy the café atmosphere while strategizing their sweet purchases.

It’s perfectly okay to come to the sale, graze a little, and retire with a few frosted treats to get you through the chilly week. But if you want to gift your neighbor with a gorgeous sampler of delectables, pretending they all came from your own kitchen—the Seniors’ lips are sealed.