Last weekend I hosted a cookie exchange at my house. It was quite fun, but requires a little planning. First of all, I researched it on different blogs. There are a lot of ways you can do it, but I selected the most basic. Each guest was asked to bring 4 dozen homemade Christmas cookies. Given that it was Christmas for a theme, chocolate chip cookies just didn’t cut it! Then for the tough part. We all had to find a sitter and leave the kids at home so there was plenty of time for girl talk! My kids went out hunting with their dad…gave them all plenty of bonding time! Plus, he could take them out for dinner at that happy meal place which they loved. I also asked them to bring recipes so that we could all make the cookies again if we loved them. I thought the girls who came did a great job with their holiday cookies and my family has definitely been enjoying all the food!
I had hot cocoa ready for everyone. Sadly enough, it was not my favorite recipe. Next time I’m going to try making Red Velvet Hot cocoa. Doesn’t it look much prettier?
Here are the cookies I made with their link to the appropriate blog. By the way, I LOVE blog hopping and trying new recipes! Thanks to pinterest, I can cut back a little on the 20 or so blogs delivered to my email every day!
Reindeer cookies were definitely a favorite of my family. The hardest part was finding the tiny little chocolate covered pretzels. Needless to say, I found them finally through keebler 100 calorie packs. I stocked up with enough to spare!
Spiral cookies were a little work, but definitely fun. I switched the strawberry flavoring out for a little peppermint extract to make it more festive and it turned out great!
Candy Cane Blossoms were definitely fun. I even made the colored sugar like she suggested and it turned out pretty good! I think this would even be fun with a plain kiss in the middle and different colors during other times of the year!
Obviously if you’ve seen our pictures in the past, you know that these pictures came from their respective websites. I’d like to thank those awesome bloggers for being much better with the camera than I am. Hopefully though someday I’ll get better. Until then, hope you got some great cookie ideas, and maybe next year you’ll invite me to your cookie exchange, or just come to mine! :)
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