The Best Cookie Recipes for Your Cookie Exchange Party
The best cookies for a cookie swap are those that can be either made a few days in advance or made several weeks in advance and frozen. It's also best to avoid cookies that need a lot of icing (too much work and too hard to transport) and those that are too delicate. Finally, you want recipes that can easily be doubled or tripled.
These are some of my favorite cookie exchange party recipes:
- Soft Sugar Cookies -- Simple, elegant and easy to make, these sugar cookies are perfect for a cookie exchange.
- Peanut Butter Blossoms -- The combination of chocolate and peanut butter can't be beat. These cookies are a classic for good reason: They taste amazing!
- Mexican Wedding Cookies -- These popular cookies are perfect for cookie swaps, because you can make them weeks in advance and freeze them. Defrost a day in advance and re-roll in powdered sugar. Yum!
- Chocolate Chip Cookies -- Soft and chewy, these chocolate chip cookies are easy to make and even easier to eat!
- Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies with Macadamia Nuts -- These cookies taste like the kind of gourmet cookies you'd find at a bakery, but they're a cinch to prepare.
- Oatmeal Raisin Cookies -- Who doesn't love a good oatmeal raisin cookie? Subtly spicy, these oatmeal raisin cookies taste like home.
- Snickerdoodles Recipe -- The soft texture and cinnamon-sugar flavor of these cookies make them a hit with everyone.
- Peanut Butter Cup Cookies -- Every time I make these cookies, they disappear before the end of the evening. Who can resist a miniature peanut butter cup inside a cookie?
- Chocolate Crackle Cookies -- A dusting of powdered sugar turns ordinary soft chocolate cookies into extraordinary crackle cookies with this easy recipe.
- Molasses Cookies -- These cookies smell like the holidays. Warmly spiced and soft, these molasses cookies are easy to make, and they travel well, too.
- Chocolate Shortbread -- Buttery and chocolatey, these festive cookies have added pizzazz from a dip in white chocolate and peppermint chips.
- Peanut Butter Cookies Drizzled with Chocolate -- A drizzle of melted chocolate takes classic peanut butter cookies to the next level.
