One of the best ways to celebrate the holidays is to find fun ways to gather friends and family. One idea to do just that is to host a cookie exchange. It's a wonderful and rewarding way to bring together everyone you know who has a (potentially unrequited) interest in creative baking.
Cookies, at their core, are the simplest little creations: delicious, portable sweets with so many varieties that everyone can find something to love. A cookie exchange is simply a party which celebrates the fun behind cookies!
Cookie exchanges can be as simple or complex as you want. My favorite way to host a cookie exchange is to set it up around a coffee morning. In this scenario, the host provides coffee, tea and cookie-display space. Then she or he invites friends and family to bring a couple dozen of their best, most creative cookies to share. This is when everyone’s hidden baking talents come alive.
Every person invited brings a dozen (or more) cookies which they have baked, bought or decorated and when you have a room full of people and their cookie creations, everyone takes turns filling empty boxes with different kinds of cookies. As a guest, you arrive with a dozen of the same kind of cookies and leave with a pile of variety.
It doesn’t have to be a formal affair. In fact, the more casual and comfortable, the better the cookies taste!
Cookies exchanges give us a way to reconnect with special people and as a bonus, everyone leaves with a variety of delicious treats and in some cases new recipes to try.
For ideas you can always check out Pinterest or one of a dozen other blogs dedicated to the topic.
Happy holidays!
Written by Stephanie Sandoval. Stephanie is FOCUS' Magazine Editor.
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