Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> <cough> I quit going to neighborhood cookie exchanges after coming
> home from one with chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies, and peanut
> butter cookies; and my contribution to the exchange (a dozen for each
> participant) had been highly decorated cut-outs. The ones that jazz up
> a cookie plate. I want CC, PB, and oatmeal, I'll make my own, thanks.
> Allow me to suggest that you deep six the CCs unless you know the
> recipient never turns the oven on. No offense intended. Just my humble
> opinion.


Here's the way to organize cookie exchanges or dessert potlucks. On one
side of the page, put the following list: chocolate, nuts, lemon or
orange, raspberry or apricot jam, spice such as cinamon and ginger. On
the 2nd list, put: drop cookies, cut-outs, bars, crust with something on
top, pressed. Then you make sure everyone chooses a flavor idea from the
first list and a cookie type from the second (cross off each as it is
taken). For example, chocolate could be chocolate chip (drop), a rolled
cookie cut into rounds, congo bars, a shortbread crust with chocolate
chips on top, or a pressed cookie with cocoa. That way you get variety.
I use similar reasoning when putting together a tin of cookies for a gift.


--Lia