Kids Cuisine

Last week, I went to a new kind of party for me — a cookie swap! If your family enjoys a lot of variety in goodies, you need to try cookie swapping. Here’s how it works.

• Invite a group of people (parents, kids, or families) to the cookie swap.
• Have each person or group make enough cookies so that there would be 3-12 per attendee (for example, at my cookie swap we had 28 people, so each person made 84 cookies and there were 3 per person). If your group is small, you may want to exchange whole dozens of cookies.
• Collect the recipes for the cookies before the event and gather them into a recipe sheet or book for attendees.
• Party time! When guests arrive, line up their cookies on a table or counter. Provide or ask guests to bring extra containers.
• Start swapping — each person will go through the line and take a predetermined number of cookies from each offering.
• Enjoy your bounty — a great variety of cookies and a festive good time!

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