The great ‘Holiday Cookie Exchange’

DEXTER — For many bakers the lure of holiday baking is a much-anticipated annual activity. Cookies top the list of favorite holiday goodies. We mix them, we bake them. We roll, mold, drop, cut, press, stack, ice, and decorate them. We create a festive tradition of treasured memories of family and friends stretching back across the years.  This year share your memories of holiday baking traditions at the Abbott Memorial Library’s Holiday Cookie Exchange.

So what is a cookie exchange? In short, it’s a gathering where attendees each bring a given quantity of their favorite holiday cookie, say six dozen. All participants get a chance to sample the cookies, and in the end, you leave with five dozen cookies; a sampling of all the different cookies that were created. If you’re lucky, the recipes were included as well.  

Each participant bakes six dozen cookies and brings them to the library at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 12. No plain chocolate chip cookies, no-bakes or mixes are allowed. One dozen will be for tasting and the other five dozen for exchanging.   

The library will serve coffee, tea and punch and there will be prizes for most festive outfit and favorite cookie. A Holiday Cookie Exchange is a celebration of sugar and spice and everything nice.

Each participant must sign up either in person at the library or by calling before Dec. 1 at 924-7292.