Has anyone hosted a cookie swap?

[Allie322]

I would like to host a cookie swap this holiday season but I don't know the first thing about how to do so! I've never even been to one but I've heard about them and it sounds like it would be a fun Ladies Night Out! So how do I go about this....how many cookies does everyone bring...how do you make sure that everyone doesn't bring the same type of cookie....how does everyone carry their goodies home...
Any info you all can provide me is greatly appreciated!

 

[Crankyshank]

My Mom does it every year.
She invites 10 people. They each have to bring 20 dozen cookies
The cookies are all on an individual platter in the kitchen and everyone takes 2 dozen of each cookie home. When they RSVP the person has to put what type of cookie they are bringing.

They take the cookies home in a large tupperware container that each person provides for themselves.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

My friend usually has one every year. Each person is to make 1/2 dozen per person who is coming along with extra for the tray. We usually come to the party with the cookies in baggies (usually the xmas ziplocs) and just put them in a pile on the table.

On the way out...each guest will grab a baggie from each pile. It works out pretty good. She never has requested what kind of cookie each person is going to make...and I don't think we have every had "duplicates"

 

[disneymom3]

I have participated in this with a few different groups. One we did say what kind we were bringing and the others we didn't. No repeats at either one.

We bring 1 dozen per person attending. Bring your own big container and then move your dozen of each from the seving platter it came on to your take home container. One year we did bring them in the baggies or those Glad Ware type containers but just taking them from the tray works easier for us.

 

[Amberle3]

We take part in one every year. We used to do a family one, but that one kind of fell apart after a while. For the current one participants bring a dozen for each person participating. We do bag them up, although some put them on paper plates and then cover with plastic wrap. A nice touch is to tape the recipe for the cookie on the bag.

 

[LurkerLisa]

Just two things

1. DON'T mix crunchy and soft cookies in the same container - all will end up soft.

2. Request that cookies be homemade (actually had someone bring oreos).

Lisa

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I never hosted one, but have read about them in a lot of magazines. They always say to ask for an extra dozen from each person to put out to sample. I think it would be a good idea to have copies of all the recipes. It sounds like a lot of work, and a lot of fun!!

 

[ADisneygirl]

We did this at the school I work at last year. People who were interested signed up and wrote down the cookie they were making. The groups were evenly divided up. My group ended up having 6 people. I made 7 dozen cookies and packaged 6 dozen of them up in pretty tins with the recipe attached. The other dozen went on the sharing table, with all the other cookies from groups we weren't in, so we had a chance to sample all. I then ended up with 6 containers from my group to take home.

It was a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun too! And I had plenty of cookies to set out for my holiday party!

 

[WelcomeHome]

used to do it at the office....we'd send around a sign up sheet in which each person would say what type of cookie they were bringing in. Depending on how many people were in the group would depend on how many cookies each person needed to bring in. When everyone signed up, we would decide how many dozen each person needed to bake (usually 2 - 4 dozen each). Got a little sticky when some people thought that they were getting gipped when people who made more expensive types of cookies (Italian Rainbow cookies for example)which are made as a sheet cake and cut into pieces . Some people complained that the cookies were too small (meanwhile it cost them a lot less to make their two inch round choco chip cookies(rainbow cookies have almond paste, chocolate outside, pure almond extract). So after that year we decided it wasn't worth it, and we all just made for ourselves. Everyone would bring in their own containers to take the cookies home in. (Tupperware, cookies tins, baking pans w/aluminum foil)