Cookie swap and Christmas baking planner
Say how many people are swapping and pick your cookies. You get how many to bake, how many batches, what to buy in store sizes, how long the oven is busy and a day-by-day plan. Your numbers stay on this device.
What are you baking for?
Cookies for each person
Extra for the tasting table
Cookies (tap one or more, the total is split between them)
Baking sheets in the oven at once
Your baking plan
Shopping list
Check the cupboard first: most kitchens already have baking soda, salt and vanilla.
Recipe cards (one batch each)
Hosting the swap?
The Cookie Swap Party Kit (printable PDF, $3.49) has the invitation, rules sign, recipe cards, allergy labels, voting ballots, award badges, take-home tags and a host checklist.
See the Party Kit Both kits, with Secret Santa: $4.99How it is worked out
Swap: people times cookies each, plus the tasting table, rounded up to whole batches of each cookie you picked. Everyone usually bakes one dozen per person and takes home the same number, so you bake for yourself too. Oven time is the number of sheet rounds times the bake time plus 2 minutes to swap sheets, with 12 cookies per sheet (9 for big cut-outs). Store sizes: flour about 3.6 cups per pound, white sugar 2.25 cups per pound, packed brown sugar 2.25 cups per pound, powdered sugar 3.75 cups per pound, chocolate chips 2 cups per 12 oz bag, butter 4 sticks per pound. Ovens and scoop sizes differ, so bake one test sheet first.
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