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Bring these adventurous cookie recipes to your next cookie exchange and you'll be the talk of the party. Peanut butter bacon cookies anyone?
Try out your new recipes at a cookie exchange
“It is a nice way to try others’ baking,” said Jen Huttunen who brought glazed lemon and lemon snowflake cookies to a recent cookie exchange held by her friend Vanessa Munro. “I try to choose something I haven’t made or I think people haven’t tried before.”
This is the second year this particular group of ladies, all Vancouver moms who know each other through their children’s schools, have gotten together to share cookies and celebrate the start of the holiday season.
Each participant baked one dozen small cookies or half a dozen large cookies per guest and brought extra cookies for munching on at the event. Presentation is everything. The women scoured craft and dollar stores for beautiful holiday gift boxes, bags and labels to showcase their edible treats.
Exchange participant Joanne Forst picked up a set of candy cane striped gift boxes by Martha Stewart at Michaels for her cookies. Each box has a set of built in cookie separators, enough for six cookies.
When it came to selecting a cookie for the event, Forst searched the Internet for something gluten and dairy free. She chose peanut butter bacon cookies because they were unusual and very of the moment.
“I brought peanut butter bacon cookies because they are trendy and I wanted something that would be very Christmas 2012,” said Forst.
Organizer Vanessa Munro had the women e-mail her a recipe and photo of each cookie a week before the event. She then used a computer design program to create a recipe book for each participant. The recipes were printed on standard letter paper that she folded in half and stuck together with double-sided tape. The pages were then tucked inside a cover printed from card stock.
When it came to party time, Munro put out platters of extra cookies and served coffee and Mimosas. The packaged cookies were neatly stacked in a row across her dining table to form a temporary centrepiece.
Said Forst: “This event is the kick off to the holiday season. The infusion of candy in your house . . . it is like a light turns on and Christmas is here.”
From www.yummly.com
Ingredients
Instructions
Makes two dozen cookies.
From www.dinnerwithjulie.com
Makes about 8 dozen crackers.
From www.girlobsessions.com
Makes approximately 36-48 cookies, depending on how thin they are sliced.
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