Cookie exchange recipes and ideas for the holiday season. This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NestleHolidayBaking #CollectiveBias
Hosting a Christmas Cookie Exchange party is a fun way to get your family and friends together to celebrate the holiday season. I love our annual Christmas cookie party and I’ve learned a few tricks over the years to make it easy to pull together and fun for all. I’ll share with you my tips and tricks and show you how to recreate this lovely Christmas Cookie party yourself.
First, you need to send out an invitation inviting people to come to your Christmas Cookie Exchange. Be sure to note the date, time, rsvp by, contact info, how many cookies to bring and to bring printed copies of the cookie recipe to share. The number, by dozen, you’ll decide by number of guests you expect. Allow for each person to take 3 cookies. So if you expect 10 guests, thats 30 cookies, so you’ll want to note on the invitation to bring 3 dozen cookies.
Now, you’ll need to do some shopping. I love shopping at Walmart, they have everything I need from groceries to gifts and party decorations. I grabbed some of the items on my list from the baking aisle, cookie dough from the refrigerator aisle, a few Christmas decorations, some clear treat bags, festive red and green ribbon and some mason jars. Seriously, how convenient to find ALL those things in one place. Here’s my Walmart shopping list for the party in case you want a cheat sheet to go off 🙂
-  NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
- NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Red and Green Morsels
- NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk, 1 can
- Christmas cookie sprinkles
- Red and green ribbon
- Clear treat bags
- Mason jars
- All purpose flour
- Baking Powder
- Unsalted Butter, sticks
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla Extract
- Powdered Sugar
- Christmas wrapping paper
Time to bake up a few batches of my favorite cookie to share. Here’s a recipe for some OMG! amazing Sugar Cookie Bars you’ll die over, they are that good! Seriously though, you might want to make extra, taking into account how many of these you may eat yourself before the Cookie Exchange even kicks off.
The Best Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars Ever
Here’s my list in case you want to go off that:
For the bars:
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ cup or 1 stick of unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
For the frosting:
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 4 tbsp. NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup of NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Red and Green Morsels
- Add in food coloring if you want
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These sound absolutly amazing! Even though its not christmas anymore my kids will still have fun making them 🙂
A good friend hosts a recipe exchange and it’s something I look forward to all year long. Not only are the cookies wonderful, but I love catching up on how everyone’s year went. My favorite cookies to take are Spritz, although maybe next time I’ll try your sugar cookie bars. They look so good! x