Recently myself and my fellow Better Food Lovers bloggers participated in a cookie exchange. It was the first time I had done an exchange, what a great was to start the holidays!
So, the kids and browsed the cookie recipes found on Inspired.ca website and decided that we would bake Classic Cookie Dough cookies. Using simple ingredients we had dough in no time. Keep in mind that if you are one to sneak a taste of batter, this ones for you! Ummm, not that I tried or anything…
The girls helped cut the cookies into holiday-themed shapes and when done baking, we all had a hand in decorating. I wanted to do a few different colors of icing, and I think the girls loved this part best. Mixing food coloring into icing – it was like a kitchen science experiment of learning which colors when mixed made others.
Packed up in a tin with a seasonal greeting card, we then mailed the package to our exchange partner, Kathryn.
Then, the really fun part came when the cookies arrived from Kathryn and her kids. Eating!! She used the same recipe I did, but made thumbprint cookies with 3 different kinds of topping! Chocolate, candy cane and sprinkle, my girls were in heaven when they opened that container!
It was really fun making, sending and then receiving cookies as part of an exchange. Goes to show that one recipe can produce such a variety of cookies, just add your own personal touch!
Have a wonderful Christmas Kathryn, thank you!! Nom, nom, Nom.
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[email protected] says
11/15/2012 at 1:39 pmA cookie exchange sounds like fun. Whats a thumbprint cookie?
We have been traveling for 2012. Good to get back to having decent internet.
Tammi says
11/15/2012 at 1:43 pmThat’s what I call not using a cookie cutter but making a ball and pushing it down flatter with your thumbs!
😉
brenda says
11/15/2012 at 2:08 pmlove your new page!
Tammi says
11/15/2012 at 9:08 pmThanks Brenda!! 😉
Andrea B. says
11/15/2012 at 4:05 pmLove those cookies! They look wonderful! Baking is my thing at Christmas time, so this sounds right up my alley!
Rebecca says
11/16/2012 at 7:29 amlove this, what did you use for the icing?
Tammi says
11/16/2012 at 2:19 pmJust a basic Icing with icing sugar, milk and corn syrup!
🙂
Patti J. says
11/16/2012 at 8:14 amCookie exchange sounds like a great idea and the one’s that you and your daughter’s baked and decorated look awesome!
Jan says
11/16/2012 at 11:45 amDoing an exchange of any sort is a great tradition. When I was a child we did the same each year with my grandfather who lived in the ‘old country’ (no homemade cookies though) and it was just as much fun deciding what to put in as it was opening the box we received.
Tammi says
11/17/2012 at 10:17 amThats awesome Jan, great memories!
Rosey says
11/17/2012 at 5:44 amYour little taste tester doesn’t look too upset with having to help out. 🙂
Glad you had a cookie exchange, those are fun!
Tara says
11/17/2012 at 9:16 pmI can’t wait to start baking for Christmas!!
Erika E says
11/17/2012 at 9:43 pmI’ve never participated in a cookie exchange. What a great idea, especially this time of year.
Jenny says
11/17/2012 at 10:18 pmThat sounds like a great idea. I love baking and to see other kinds of goodies other people made is just a lot of fun!
SueSueper says
11/18/2012 at 5:30 amI love cookies and Christmas! Awesome to exchange to try different cookies!
Nice page update! 🙂
Christina Ferguson says
11/18/2012 at 9:13 amI love cookie exchanges. It is getting harder to find friends who want to participate. Everyone seems too busy. Part of the fun of cookie exchanges to hunting for cool tins to put the cookies in. I look through thrift stores and find the neatest tins. 🙂
angela m says
11/21/2012 at 7:29 amI love Thumb print cookies with strawberry jam in the middle
Amy Dell (@mimishumblepie) says
12/15/2012 at 11:08 amthose cookies are pretty enough to sell! i have cookie envy