Any suggestions for a cookie exchange party?  |
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 This year many of my friends are very hard up on money . . . and holiday gift giving makes it even more stressful for them (more and more each year it seems!).
So this year, I thought perhaps a cookie exchange party would relieve everyone of having to go holiday shopping . . . just bake some cookies, bring them to the party - and share! Just getting together like this would be the gift to all of us. I would provide the coffee, tea, hot chocolate, milk . . . and the plates/napkins of course. Maybe I'll get a cookie tin for each of the guests so we they can split and take home whatever we don't eat at the party.
Maybe I'll make it on a weekend afternoon - so it doesn't run into their other holiday plans. I'd want to keep it short and sweet. I'll be having a baby early December, so I can't make things too extravagant.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I could serve/do for this party?
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1.  ladym33 (5693) | 2 months ago |  Cookie exchanges are really fun, we used to do one at work every year and some friends and I used to do it too. It is a nice way to get a good variety of cookies with out having to bake a variety. Basically you need to get some people to do it with you. 6 people is a nice group to have and is not too overwhelming. Then you eac decide how many cookies you will bake for each person. We usually agreed on a dozer per person, so if there are 6 people in your group you will bake 6 dozen of the same cookies (one for your self) we would also bake one dozen to bring to the cookie exchange party in addition so that we could eat and enjoy the cookies together, and still be able to bring a dozen of each cookie home. We would always let each other know in advance what cookies we would be making so that we would not end up with duplicates. Each dozen cookies should be placed in seperate containers or individual paper plates wrapped with plastic wrap or foil. Some people got really elaborate with their cookie containers where others were more simple, that should be up to the individual but each dozen should be wrapped seperately before arival to the party. Friday evenings are a good time to have a cookie exchange as are weekend days. Personally now that I have kids I prefer Friday nights as it does not take up most of my weekend that way.
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| ladym33 (5693) | 1 month ago | Your welcome! If you want to make it really easy on yourself I recommend bar cookies. That way you can put everything in a baking pan or two or three depending on how many cookies you have to make then instead of sitting there spooning out 100 cookies you can just bake the bar cookies and then cut them. It will save you a lot of time. | |
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| 2. jillhill (11840) | 2 months ago |  It's been a long time since I attended one of these and it was so much fun! And a creative way to get a variety of cookies for the holidays! I think you are right though...keep it simple and make the fact that you all got together the center of the party!
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| 3. muscles4me (9187) | 2 months ago |  with groceries as expensive as they are it is costly to even bake a batch of coikies for some people. You could have an ornement exchange party and keep the price under $10, then play a game for the prizes so that each person ened up with one ornament.
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| much2say (722) | 2 months ago | I thought about that too . . . but the few that I'm inviting probably have most of the ingredients on hand as they cook and bake all the time. I already mentioned the idea of a cookie party instead of exchanging gifts, and they seemed to be going for the idea. There may be a couple people whom I suspect will end up buying cookies . . . as they don't cook or bake - and they're not particularly tight on money anyway even if they attempt to go in the kitchen. I do like the ornament exchange idea too . . . maybe we should do that in January so everyone can get ornaments on sale after Christmas - hee hee!! | |
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4.  arun2009 (3214) | 2 months ago |  Lol great idea, my wife knows how to make cakes and indian sweets, but when there is power failure or lack of time, she tells me to purchase from market, though it is costly, i will tell her to arrange a cookie, sweets exchange party...... Thank you so much for this posting here. I enjoyed responding to it keep sharing, cheers
Happy posting.
ARUN
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| much2say (722) | 1 month ago | I've never done a "food" exchange party like this, so it will be interesting! At least it can be enjoyable - who doesn't like good "sweets"? It's better than exchanging or spending money on useless gifts or spending money . . . we can all have a snack and share the company. Thanks arun2009 . . . cheers to you! | |
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