I would love to attend a cookie exchange but don't know how to go about it, I really don't have many friends and the ones I have are not into baking. I've searched online to see if there were any public events but didn't find any..... Any ideas are appreciated....
Thanks ladies for your responses, I don't mind hosting one if I had enough people to invite so that wouldn't work......most of my neighbors are seniors so that kind of wouldn't work either. My son is not in school yet maybe next year I'll see what happens.
I don't mind driving out to one as one of the ladies mentioned. Thanks and enjoy the holidays....
I wouldn't do a cookie exchange with anyone other than someone that I knew what their kitchen looked like.
I agree, do it with your neighbors You host it.
Serve wine and snacks.. Punch and coffee...
Have everyone bag up 6 cookies to a bag and to bring 3 dozen total cookies. We include the recipe if it is a new recipe.
Then what we do is give everyone a handled bag and they are allowed to take 6 bags, their choice of cookies. So they take home 3 dozen cookies!
I attend one every year.. It is great seeing everyone and I love trying all of the different cookies and candies. There are usually more than 20 people each year..
My family loves it too.
That sounds fun though never have done a cookie exchange just candy ones i used to do with a friend over in England :(
Why don't you just put some flyers up in your neighborhood? For something like this, you'll likely have to take initiative and host it. It doesn't have to be something where everyone attends at the same time; just buy some cute cheap tins or decorative Chinese cartons, have everyone interested in participating drop off a tin of their homemade cookies and label each tin with the baker's name and house number, and let people fill up their to-go tins/cartons to take home and/or sample there. Have some fun festive drinks around too in case anyone wants to stay awhile. Hot chocolate with peppermint sticks optional for the kids and hot chocolate, Christmas beer (like Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale) or red wine for the adults. :)
Our cookie exchange started with a group of Moms from school we reserved the community room at the local Panera and had the Mom's sign up via a message sent out via our school newsletter. Everone signed up and we determined that we had 12 interested Mom's and due to having a lot of entertaining everyone brought 12 dozen already wrapped, travelable. Packages and we swapped cookies and drank coffe and some had soup and sandwiches. We got to know each other well and now do the Mom' breakfast club once a month. We have left it open to other mom's as well but we still after 2 years only have the original group and now camp together and do family events and parents night out and share a couple of sitters so the kids have a playdate too.
If you want to come out to Naperville, I know of one. Let me know.
