Annual Inn-to-Inn Cookie Tour in the Mt. Washington Valley of
New Hampshire: Cookies, Gingerbread Houses, Christmas Trees and More!
By Marcia Passos Duffy
Take a Virtual Cookie Tour...Scroll Down to the End of Story to Begin
How often does a weekend getaway live up to its expectations (particularly a
getaway right before Christmas)? For me, I was hoping I could roll a whole
bunch of things into a long weekend: get some shopping done, spend time
with my teenage daughter, stay in a really beautiful inn surrounded by
mountains...and, while I was at it, get into the Christmas spirit by trudging
through some freshly-fallen snow, listen to some nice Christmas music, eat
really good food, sample holiday cookies, wake up in a room with an alpine
view, and tour magazine-quality decorated lodgings so I can get some ideas
for my own humble home.
Uh, setting the bar a little too high, you say?
Believe it or not, while I didn't consciously make out this laundry list of
delights, we experienced all of it during our weekend visit to the Mt.
Washington Valley of New Hampshire's Inn-to-Inn Cookie Tour -- an annual
event that takes place every second weekend in December, created by a group
of 17 inns in the region which are part of the Country Inns in the White
Mountains.
We shopped at the Settler's Green Outlet Village
in North Conway (best deal of the weekend was
the $9.99 field coat I got for our son, marked down
from $50), and in the afternoon visited luxury
inns, sampled their cookies, inspected their
gingerbread house creations, and toured the
rooms. "This is like trick-or-treating," commented
my daughter when we reached the 5th inn.
Yes, and without the trouble of dressing in
a silly costume. Touring the inns was also
a little like the thrill of house-hunting
(without the stress of an impeding mortgage
payment!) At the end of the day, we relaxed at the Snowvillage Inn, which
lived up to its name with a several inches of fluffy snow already on the ground.
Join us now on a virtual cookie tour, where you'll sample our favorite cookie
recipes, and get a "taste" of some of the inns we visited. (My 14 year old
daughter took many of the photographs)...
Click here to start your inn-to-inn virtual cookie tour...
Or, if you prefer, click on the cookie recipes below...they were all wonderful,
but the ones in bold were our favorites:
Ginger Froggers (Notchland Inn)
Mud-Slide Cookies (Snowvillage Inn)
Exotic Double Chocolate Chippers (Inn at Ellis River)**
Walnut Toffee Triangles (Covered Bridge House)**
Nana's Snow Capped Brownies (The Bartlett Inn)
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies (Inn at Jackson)
Truffle Decadence Cookie (Glen Oaks Inn)
Holiday Rosettes (1785 Inn)**
Meringue Kisses (Wildflowers Inn)**
Window Fudge Cookies (Old Red Inn & Cottages)**
Cheese Straws (Eastman Inn)
Traditional Maine Needhams (Admiral Peary House)**
Scotch Cookies (Inn at Crystal Lake)
Christmas Almond Cran-Raisin Cookie (Darby Field Inn)
Walnut Crescents (Lake View Cottage Bed & Breakfast)
Key Lime Coconut Macaroons (Tamworth Inn)**
Mexican Wedding Cookies (Riverbend B&B)
Want to go on the next inn-to-inn cookie tour?
The tour stretched from Harts Location, to Tamworth, NH and over to
Fryeburg, ME. No inn was more than fifteen minutes from the next, with
many much closer. Tickets are $25 for the two day tour. Each participating
inn will offer two tickets (a $50 value) with their cookie tour package,
including a two-night stay, and breakfast for two each day. Some inns have
added dinners and cookie baking classes to their packages. Tour tickets are
available in advance by reserving a lodging packages from participating inns
or select inns on the day of the tour. Those interested in booking the Inn to
Inn Holiday Cookie & Candy Tour package may call 800-626-5855 for
reservations. To learn more about the tour and the inns’ lodging packages,
visit www.countryinnsinthewhitemountains.com.
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