Happy Holidays Cookie Exchange!!!

Happy Holidays to everyone who reads this blog. We hope you are having a good holiday season. Last month we  gave you some advice on the holiday dinner. This month we are going to suggest a good old fashion cookie exchange.  This is a great party to have with your friends for a cold winter day.  You spend time with your friends and bake cookies and exchange recipes. Then you eat what you made while watching some holiday movies.

We have some suggestions for cookies that you can bake. Crisco has the best home made Chocolate Chip Cookies and Sugar Cookies recipes.  Sugar Cookies are fun because you get to decorate them how ever you want them.

Here are the recipes:

http://www.crisco.com/recipes/ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookies-2102

http://advicefromroseandlyssamarie.blogspot.com/p/crisco-ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookies.html

http://www.crisco.com/recipes/ultimate-sugar-cookies-2099

http://advicefromroseandlyssamarie.blogspot.com/p/crisco-ultimate-sugar-cookies.html

If you have someone, who is diabetic here is a great Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies.  We got this recipe from the American Diabetic Association.

http://www.diabetes.org/mfa-recipes/recipes/2013-11-cranberry-oatmeal-cookies.html

If you have some friends, who can’t eat gluten here is a recipe from Betty Crocker for Sugar Cookies.

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/gluten-free-christmas-sugar-cookies/d3ab2026-54a3-4ff5-9c81-3f38b30acd89

If you have friends who are Vegans, here is Betty Crocker’s Vegan Sugar Cookie recipe.

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/vegan-sugar-cookies/45ab6889-511a-4345-9391-9ea5c00c8d4a

If you don’t want to make from scratch but still want to bake that is where Pillsbury Ready Made Cookies come in handy. 

http://www.pillsbury.com/products/cookies

If you and your friends aren’t good at baking at all but still want homemade, type cookies, you could always get fresh cookies from your favorite bakery.  It is just as good as if you made them yourself.

What goes better with cookies on a cold winter day is hot chocolate.  To make it a little more special you should just melt some chocolate peppermint candy in it.

http://advicefromroseandlyssamarie.blogspot.com/p/peppermint-hot-chocolate.html

If you have any left over cookies, you should get some Tupperware or Rubbermaid containers for your friends to take some home.  When you store the leftover cookies you should place a slice of white bread in the container.  This helps keeps the cookies from getting hard and stale.  The cookies will absorb moisture from the bread, keeping them soft longer.

http://www.tupperware.com/

http://www.rubbermaid.com/

The goal is just to have fun with your friends.


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