Host a Holiday Cookie Exchange

Last year I was invited to a cookie exchange. I had never heard of this before and didn’t really know what it was, but quickly found out how much fun it could be! The hostess had invited a handful of people and asked each to bring so many dozen of their favorite cookie. We all showed up and she had snacks while we visited. As we all left to go home, we got to exchange our cookies for a dozen each of the cookies each other lady had brought. Not only was it a lot of fun, but we all got to try a lot of different recipes, and we all ended up with a great variety of cookies that we didn’t have to bake ourselves!

If you want to plan a cookie exchange yourself, here are a few tips to get it going. Ideally, you’d be sending out invitations a couple of weeks before your event, but since it’s so close to the holiday already, we’ll have to speed it up a little! Send out your invites – probably best to do by phone or in person, and make sure to get a solid RSVP from your guests. As they RSVP, make sure that you don’t have people bringing the same types of cookie so you make sure to get a good variety.

Once you know how many people will be attending, decide how many cookies you want everyone to be able to take home – that will help you figure out how many cookies each person needs to bring. For example, if you’re having 5 people over (plus yourself makes 6) and you want everyone to take a dozen of each type of cookie home, you need them to bring six dozen of the cookies they are making.

Make sure everyone brings a container to take their cookies home in – although my hostess provided disposable Tupperware,that may get expensive. When everyone arrives, you can decide if you want to display the cookies on platters or if you will just leave them in the containers they were brought in for everyone to choose from.

It’s also nice to have your guests bring photocopies of the recipe they used to make the cookie in case theirs is one of the favorites!

Kraft Foods has a good article on planning an exchange - especially for when you have weeks to plan! Check it out for more details.

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