As Christmas gets closer, wish lists start popping up. My office isn’t doing an actual party but a brilliant gal upstairs came up with a cookie exchange. I’m thinking this could work for a lot of different groups. If you’ve got a group of friends who may also be concerned about having to get “a little something” for a whole bunch people, this could be the ticket. There are two kinds of these events. The first is a minor event that allows each participant to go home with a plate or two of cookies from each other. One of our group has Celiac disease so he can’t have any wheat products. For him, I’ll be bringing Rice Krispie bars. I haven’t settled on a second or third kind but I’ll come away with a couple plates of treats for my household to enjoy.
The second kind of event is a little more like a mutual-assistance project. Once I have all the ingredients out, it’s no big deal to make an enormous batch. I’ll invite half a dozen girl friends over who want to save some time. Each will bring several plates of the single kind they’ve baked. We’ll swap. Carol makes awesome Russian tea cakes. Becky’s chocolate chip are the BEST. Jerri has fantastic shortbread cookies. We’ll get together next Saturday, just for an hour or so, to eat a couple cookies but we’ll come away with dozens of traded cookies we can make up into re-gifting platters for work, neighbors, etc.
So while I’m baking, after the “people” cookies are finished, I’m going to make some doggie biscuits. I have one friend who doesn’t really need anything but she’s a huge dog person. I’m going to make up a few boxes of doggie treats that she can dole out to her four legged friends. I’ll include the recipe so she can see that there are no additives, no preservatives and no weird chemicals. It’ll save us both money and she won’t end up with some dumb gift that doesn’t match her colors. I found some great looking recipes at: http://www.bullwrinkle.com/Assets/Recipes/Recipes.htm. I already got some cool tins to put them in. We have some great thrift stores around here. I got square tins for fifty cents each. Yahoo!
Finally, one friend has specifically requests no “things”. She has asked that anyone who is willing give her a gift certificate for yard labor. She has a new house and her yard is a wreck. She wants to put together a couple work parties next spring to get it back in shape. She also knows I have a few plants she’d like cuttings from. I’m making up pretty gift certificates on the computer and as additional ideas come to me, will be using them for more than Sara’s yard work request.
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