A great way to have a girls night out and not feel guilty about doing it is to have a Cookie Exchange. This is great fun...you get to spend time with you friends and come home with a load of different beautiful cookies...This is a time saver.
Here's how to have a Cookie Exchange with your friends, family, neighbors, church or community group!* Invite 8 friends
* Everyone make 8 dozen cookies to exchange.
* 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!
* 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! Thas What Works For Me!
Here are two really great sites that have loads of information and helps for pulling off a successful Cookie Exchange.http://www.bettycrocker.com/Entertaining/CookieExchange/
Cookie Exchange Video from Taste of Home
Below are a few demonstration Videos on making cookies.
Santa Cookie Demonstration Video from Taste of Home
How to Ship your homemade cookies Video from Taste of Home
This is such a wonderful way to spend time with friends, get new recipies and come home with a variety of baked goodies.
That's what works for me! For more ideas, visit Rocks in my Dryer.
2 comments:
Sounds like fun! We did a wrapping party last week! We had 6-8 ladies come and we all wrapped our Christmas gifts together. It was great!
Oh I do love cookie exchanges! A girlfriend and I used to cohost one every year, and we'd also have people bring materials to make (and teach) a quick ornament. Just stuff like putting a ribbon around a walnut and hanging it from the tree, or origami stars. It was so much fun! Once she moved away the tradition kind of died, but your post reminded me of how much fun it was.
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