Girls Night Out=Many Yummy Cookies

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/

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/Community/CookieExchange/HostingACookieExchange.htm

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.

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Wordless Wednesday

Naughty or Nice?

Now There is Cooking & Baking & Cleaning & Shopping.......

I feel as if I am naming off Santa's Reindeer and there is no end.

With my oldest daughter off from college yesterday and off from work...we decided to finally get the tree up. They did it all with a little directions ( unwanted as it may be ) from mom.

They did an awesome job. The tree was loaned to us from a dear, sweet, friend from church and it is the most beautiful tree I have ever had in my house. It looks so real....It is really big and we moved the room around to make it fit....Only problem is, if anyone comes to the front door....we can't get it open....OH NO!

We don't have a chimney either...how will Santa get in....OH MY! Another dilema!

While the girls put up the tree, I was off to the kitchen to make up a batch of sugar cookie dough to use in our homeschool party. We baked and decorated the sugar cookies of all shapes and then we split up and delivered them to many deserving folks in our community...I hope they all have health insurance...lol

It was a fun day and as soon as we got home the bad weather came in and we were safe and sound and snug in our home....It was a good time.

Today, we have ice everywhere and I am going to do some more baking while there girls clean. My youngest is finishing up her school work for the day first and nursing a cold she woke up with...yuck.

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I hope your day is fruitful and you are warm and snug in your home. God Bless!