Katie Fisher Day

Every year on March 12 is Katie Fisher Day, where people all over the world pick someone they love and send them cookies. LEARN MORE »

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Welcome to Katie Fisher Day! If you’re new to the concept, Katie Fisher Day is a social media holiday for everyone on earth to bake for those they love. 

If you’d like to see what we’re up to, just search #katiefisherday on Facebook or Twitter to see all the folks who are whipping up cookies to surprise their loved ones. You’ll also find recipes, wild stories, and all sorts of other stuff. 

BAKE SOME COOKIES THIS WEEKEND AND SHOW US HOW THEY TURN OUT!

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Tips for Sending Cookies in the Mail

We are so excited that people are starting to bake for #KatieFisherDay! One question we’ve been getting is how best to send cookies in the mail? 

Great Question. 

We’ve been scouring the internet and found some helpful tips. 

Click: This step by step guide is great!! 

More tips: 

Tips for Mailing Cookies #1

Tips for Mailing Cookies #2 

Importantly, don’t send them out on a Thur or Friday. Early in the week is better so they don’t sit in mail storage over the weekend.

Please share your stories with us on social media using the hashtag #KatieFisherDay!

Happy baking!

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March 12th is almost here. Help Us Spread the Word!

Hey grassroots KFD team! Wanna know how to help?

We here at Katie Fisher Day headquarters are only a couple of people. We really rely on the power of ya’ll to spread the word about our holiday! Our goal is to get as many people participating as possible! Here is how you can help us out!

1. Update your Email signature! 

March 12 is ‪#‎KatieFisherDay‬: A day to send cookies to someone you love. Katiefisherday.org

2. Start sharing posts about Katie Fisher Day on social media!  Things to include!:

Official KFD Badges (find ‘em here)

The hashtag! #KatieFisherDay

The Date: March 12th

We are on twitter & facebook too! Hit us up and we’ll re-post!

3. Wanna go the extra mile? Change your profile photo to a KFD badge!

Wondering what the heck this holiday is all about? 

Step 1: Pick someone you love. Step 2: Bake (or buy) them cookies. Step 3: Send those cookies!

What more info? Here is the full scoop.

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KATIE FISHER DAY 2015 is in the books and it has been EPIC.

It has been such a blast to see so many new people slinging cookies around! Thanks obviously to Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls & Kind Bars for helping get the word out this year!

But thanks first and foremost to all the people who took part! The dirty little secret of Katie Fisher Day is that the folks with the mixing bowls make it all happen-- we’re really just here to facilitate. And to see the pictures of cookies given and received and hear the stories of the people who make our lives better every day-- that’s why we do this, and hopefully you get a charge out of it too. Take a peek at all that happened:

https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23katiefisherday

https://instagram.com/explore/tags/katiefisherday/

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/katiefisherday

Keep the good vibe going, keep the ones you love close this year, and we’ll see you in 2016!

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Katie Fisher Taft Scholarship

Hi Katie/Cookie/Love supporters!

Though it's not March 12th, and though this is less about the awesomeness of cookie sharing, it is still about love and honoring Katie.

If you have a chance, check out our fundraising efforts to start a memorial scholarship for Katie at Taft. Contribute if you can, share if you can, leave memories and messages if you can. All help is appreciated. Thanks!

http://igg.me/at/willandkatie/x/9285701

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We chose to send a care package filled with chocolate chip cookies and other goodies to our daughter's college roommate. Our daughter, Megan, passed away four weeks ago following a brief and devastating illness.  Grief is a journey that no young person should ever have to experience, especially when it involves a sibling, cousin or friend.  We hope that these cookies made with lots of love help to comfort Megan's roommate as she finishes her freshman year at DePauw University.

What a blessing it was to learn of Katie Fisher Day! 

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Hi all!

I am a small bake shop owner and, of course had to participate in this heartwarming event. At first blush, I thought I would make cookies for all my customers, but then common sense took hold. Instead, I held a drawing and gave away two batches of cookies to two lucky people - both were thrilled and said they never win anything - Yay, the right people won! Posting about this also encouraged others to bake themselves, so win-win.

Thanks for sharing,

Jib Liska 

My Sister's Bake Shop

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Go show the people you love that you care! Nothing else matters. My hardworking coworkers and my amazing cousin had a happy #KatieFisherDay & I hope you did too!

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Campbell Shortbread

I wanted to share my great grandma's recipe for shortbread, straight from Scotland. I hope someone will see this and make it in honor of Katie!

Campbell Shortbread

9 oz butter, softened at room temperature

3 oz superfine sugar (aka caster sugar, baker's sugar)

10 oz all-purpose flour

2 oz corn starch (sometimes known as corn flour in Scotland, a fine white powder)

Pinch salt

Extra superfine sugar for dusting

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Combine sugar and butter in a bowl and mix with spoon or hands until well combined. Next add the flour, corn starch, and salt. Mix (best with hands) until a smooth, uniform dough forms. This may take several minutes. Spread and flatten dough into a non-stick 7x11 pan, smoothing it until it is a flat, uniform shape. Prick entire surface with a fork. Bake for 50-55 minutes, or until edges begin to brown just slightly. While still hot, dust entire surface with superfine sugar, to taste, and cut into squares. Let cool slightly and enjoy! It is best eaten the same day, but can be stored wrapped in tin foil for several days.

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Hi,

I am also named Katie Fisher and feel honored to share this day with all.Katie sounds like she was an incredible person , full of life and someone very special.

I have put Katie Fisher day signs all around my office and am promoting it every where I go.

While I wont have time to bake, I will be sending cookies all around to honor Katie.

its truly an honor to share her name.

Regards,

Katie Fisher

Babylon , N.y

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Much love

Made cookies yesterday for my brother ( who is away at college) and stumbled on your page via a friend today. Participating today in Katie Fisher day for the first time!

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Happy Katie Fisher Day!!!

There are great pictures and stories being shared on our Facebook & Twitter pages! Check them out! And basically search #katiefisherday any old place you can and see what happens! : )

https://www.facebook.com/KatieFisherDay

https://twitter.com/KatieFisherDay

Yeah!

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There was nothing boring about that entire story

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Candy Cane Meringue Cookies

  Candy Cane Meringues

  6 egg whites, separated and at room temperature

2 cups granulated sugar

½ teaspoon of cream of tartar

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Dash of salt

12 oz chopped bittersweet chocolate

1 teaspoon red food coloring

12 crushed candy canes (or starlight mints)

(sometimes I add peppermint flavoring, but it isn’t in the recipe)

    Preheat oven to 225 degrees.

  Place egg whites in a mixing bowl and add cream of tartar.  Whisk for 20 seconds.  Increase speed and slowly add the sugar.  Whip until stiff and glossy.  Add the food coloring and chopped chocolate chips.  Spoon onto a cookie sheet and sprinkle tops with crushed candy canes.  Bake 2 hours and shut off oven and let sit at least one hour in the oven before taking out.

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Katie Fisher Day is coming up! Start spreading the word!

This is our 3rd year celebrating our wonderful friend and as always, we want to make it even bigger than last year (check out the 2014 wrap up) - and get as many people to participate as we can across the world.  

WHAT CAN I DO?

We encourage anyone who wants to participate to bake cookies and send them to someone they love. It's as simple as that.

Start spreading the word! Use the official hashtag #KatieFisherDay

Use these sweet #KatieFisherDay badges on your social media. Available to download on Facebook, Pinterest, & Tumblr. (For those Broad City fans, Abbi Jacobson illustrated these for us. :) She rocks.)

Share your story on social media & upload your photos here. (If you choose to send cookies, feel free to use our Printable insert.)

Have friends w/ lots of followers/connections? Send this info to them please!

We love that this is a grass roots effort and the more people involved, the more love will get spread around. Thanks for reading and for spreading this around!  

Much love,

The KFD Team

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Clearer picture of Mickey Mouse and his Katie Fisher Day Cookie

http://tinypic.com/r/qxqao9/8

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The best chocolate chip cookie recipe!

I am on the faculty of Taft, as is my husband who also is a Taft grad.  However, in our time at Taft, we were not there when Katie was a student.  However, her spirit is so strong that we wanted to contribute.  My 10 year old and I made our special chocolate chip cookie recipe.  I take the regular Nestle recipe, but I use 1 cup of both brown and white sugar.  Make sure you bring the eggs and butter to room temperature and I sift the flour, salt and baking powder together.  I also line my pans with parchment paper.  Oh and I prefer Hershey chips to Nestle.  They are delicious!