Hosting a cookie exchange party is fun and almost effortless. I recently hosted my very first party and all I can say is Wowza! I piled enough cookies in my cookie barrel to eat, share and freeze for later.
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Can you imagine an assortment of scratch baked yummy homemade cookies right at your fingertips without having to set up tent in your kitchen? That’s what a cookie exchange party will yield.
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The rules are easy but the math formula is where I fall short. See, the whole idea is to bring a certain amount of cookies and leave with the same amount. This all depends on how many participants are in the party so I solicited my engineering friend, Natalie to help with this math assignment and everyone was all smiles and cookie pleased.
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Rules For Hosting:
1. Invite a few friends. Six is a good number and the more the merrier.
2. Have each guest to bring three dozen homemade cookies from the same recipe on a platter.
3. Bring copies of their cookie recipe to share. (the host provides the number of copies needed once the final headcount is determined).
4. Bake three dozen cookies. I baked Cranberry-Orange Cookies.
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5. Provide refreshments. Keep it simple with wine and a non-alcoholic beverage, cheese, crackers, fresh berries and great appetizers that are already pre-packaged and ready to pop in the oven.
Tip– Provide a take home container for your guest to store their cookies. I purchased these from Dollar Tree and scribbled a different holiday depiction on each lid. #noartskillsneeded
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Turn on the Christmas music and have fun.

Until next time,
Enjoy!

Yields 3 dozen

Cranberry Orange Cookies

15 minPrep Time

PT12-14MCook Time

27 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 tsp. grated orange peel
  • 2 tbs. orange juice
  • 1 egg
  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup coarsely chopped craisens(or fresh cranberries)
  • ½ cup chopped pecans
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • Directions:
  • Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix sugars, butter, orange peel, orange juice and egg in a large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients except the Orange Glaze. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 12-14 minutes or until light brown. Remove from cookies from sheet and let cool completely. Prepare Orange Glaze and drizzle over cookies
  • Orange Glaze
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2-3 tablespoons orange juice
  • ½ tsp. grated orange peel
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