Hosting a Christmas Cookie Swap is a wonderful way to "kick off" your celebration of Christmas. A Christmas Cookie Swap provides the opportunity to take a break from the holiday rush to share the Christmas spirit with old and new friends.
My friends and I hosted a Christmas Brunch for the occasion of our Christmas Cookie Swap. We scheduled it around the second week of December so that everyone could go home with a variety of scrumptious Christmas cookies to serve throughout the holidays. Each year we rotate the home and the hostesses where the brunch is held.
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In order to have a successful Christmas Cookie Swap, we offer the following guidelines: (which were included in the invitation)
1. All cookies are to be "homemade," baked and main ingredient is to be flour. No "no-bake" cookies, meringues or bars. Fudge or pralines are ok.
2. It's great to make cookies that freeze well.
3. Please bring 80 total cookies, divided into 40 Ziploc bags of 2 cookies each.
4. The theme is "Christmas Cookies"-no chocolate chip cookies, please.
5. Arrange bags of cookies in a basket or on a platter (be creative).
6. Bring 40 copies of the recipe printed on 8 ½" X 11" (to make individual recipe books.)
7. RSVP as soon as possible to let us know what type of cookies you are planning to bring. We'll try not to duplicate recipes.
8. If you cannot attend but would like to swap cookies, you may deliver your cookies to the host house the day before the brunch. We'll swap them for you.
9. *If you don't have time to bake, or have ruined your recipe, but still want to attend, you can bring cookies from a "real" bakery.
In preparation for the brunch, the hostess prepares brunch food, a bag in which each participant can put her cookies, and a cover and back sheet for the Christmas Cookie Swap Recipe Book. During the brunch, one of the hostesses assembles the recipe books so they are ready to pass out at the end of the activities.
The hostesses also prepare activities for the guests before the cookies are distributed. One activity that all seem to enjoy is for each guest to tell why they chose their cookie recipe to prepare, especially if the recipe has a special meaning, e.g. it was grandmother's favorite sugar cookie recipe.
Christmas Cookie Swap
And...everyone is encouraged to wear Christmas attire (especially a ChristmasTee) to the Brunch.
ChristmasTees http://www.tees-4christmas.com is a website that provides ladies the opportunity to own a fashionable, festive shirt, with rhinestone appliques, to enhance their celebration of the Christmas season. Shirts may also be designed and purchased to use as Christmas gifts for friends and family.
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