How to Have a Successful Cookie Exchange or Cookie Swap from the Editor of Cookie Club Recipes

How to Have a Successful Cookie Swap or Exchange

Here's the SCOOP on how to have a delightful Cookie Swap or Cookie Exchange with your friends, family, neighbors, church or community group!

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* Decide how many guests you're going to invite and pick a non-weekend day or evening to have your Cookie Exchange - so it won't interfere with family weekends or office parties. Choose a location that will be decorated for the holidays if possible.

* Confirm how many people will be able to attend and let everyone know how many cookies they need to make. Everyone will need to bring one dozen cookies to share at the Exchange and another dozen cookies for each person attending. For example, if 8 people will be attending each person will need to bring 9 dozen cookies. (That's 9 dozen cookies from one recipe.)

* Ask everyone to bake their family's favorite cookie and try to make sure there will be no duplicated recipes for the Cookie Exchange. The more variety you have the more fun it will be! If you have a lot of people who are interested in participating in a Cookie Exchange (say, more than 8-10), you might consider holding two or three events instead of one to keep the groups small.

* Cookies to be exchanged should be wrapped well; placed either on plastic plates with saran wrap or in inexpensive disposable containers that are airtight.

* Attaching a copy of the cookie recipe with each dozen is always a nice touch, be sure everyone includes their name and any information about where the recipe is from, how it originated or at least a few words about how much their family enjoys the cookies.

* During the Cookie Exchange serve warm beverages such as coffee, hot cocoa, hot apple cider or herbal teas in pretty cups.

And most of all, enjoy this fun time with your friends!

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