Store bought cookies for cookie exchange?

[Anonymous]

If she’s showing up with the box of store bought peanut/tree nut safe cookies, that’s actually hilarious. (These: https://giantfood.com/product/lofthouse-pink-frosted-sugar-cookies-10-ct-13.5-oz-pkg/137875 ) But I assumed it was the nicer bakery-type cookies from Wegmans or a nicer store. I actually think that’s a good thing to bring to an exchange, at least you know they’re prepared safely in a commercial kitchen and taste good. I’ve been to cookie exchanges with some really ehhhhhhh cookies. Stuff that’s clearly been prepared weeks in advance and is now stale, or was overcooked, or is just kind of bland and uninteresting. I have to say if someone brought nice bakery cookies they would instantly be in the top half of a cookie exchange just based on my experience with these things in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the cookie exchange fans - what do you do with the cookies? For example, are they just for serving at home, or do you use them to make up gifts of baked goods, or ...?

I believe exchanges developed as a way to share the labor of making nice plates of cookies for parties and gifts, but that purpose has mostly died out which may be why people are confused.

Op here. This is my approach to them. They will be our snacks next week and i will put them out on Christmas Eve and Christmas for my extended family who come by.

Appreciate people’s responses and suggesting adjusting the invite next year.

If I saw a change to the invite for next year and I knew that meant Cathy wouldn't be welcome to come anymore I'd skip your cookie exchange, too.

Why can’t the home bakers do their thing? Do you generally show up at a party and change the theme? It’s rather rude to ignore the instruction on the invitation.

Why can't the home bakers enjoy their exchange of homemade cookies while also socializing? I've been to multiple cookie exchanges. The majority of the time is spent chatting and hanging out. No one is doing Power Point presentations on their cookies. So who cares if others are there?

Do you show up at Super Bowl parties and change the channel because you don’t like football? It’s just not that hard to make some cookies and bring them. Why not just go along?

Because this seems excessively rigid. There's a signup sheet to make sure there are no dupes. So, if you want to make chocolate chip cookies, but Larla has already signed up first then you're SOL.

If that's the only thing in your repertoire then I guess you are SOL. But you could also just pass if this is not for you. If I'm invited to a costume party and hate wearing costumes I just don't go, because it's not something I enjoy doing.

People show up to costume parties with Minnie Mouse ears or similar all the time, which is equivalent to a store bought cookie. I just can't believe how snooty this is..repertoire, really?

How difficult of a person are you that you can’t just go with the flow, figure out some kind of idiot proof no bake cookie, and have fun with it? The idea that you all can’t figure out what to do in a kitchen is weird. Learned helplessness.

DP. I'm a competent baker, but I'm busy and I just don't care that much about cookies. Not everybody has to be into your hobbies.

Plus, be honest, you'd be mad about her idiot-proof option too.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the cookie exchange fans - what do you do with the cookies? For example, are they just for serving at home, or do you use them to make up gifts of baked goods, or ...?

I believe exchanges developed as a way to share the labor of making nice plates of cookies for parties and gifts, but that purpose has mostly died out which may be why people are confused.

Op here. This is my approach to them. They will be our snacks next week and i will put them out on Christmas Eve and Christmas for my extended family who come by.

Appreciate people’s responses and suggesting adjusting the invite next year.

If I saw a change to the invite for next year and I knew that meant Cathy wouldn't be welcome to come anymore I'd skip your cookie exchange, too.

No great loss. You and Cathy can have a store-bought cookie party of two.

[Anonymous]

I think cookie exchanges should be for serious bakers. The idea is to share them at your christmas get togethers. No quality baker wants to share Walmart cookies.
Baking is a hobby of mine, I'm good at it, and this is why I don't participate in cookie exchanges. Everyone wants mine, I don't want theirs. And I'm too busy to bake for other people for basically, free.

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Uh I would be the store bought cookie lady!
Yess….I do not bake.
No reason really, I just do. not. bake.

So of course I am going to be super prejudiced in my answer.

No!
She should not be booted from the list.

At least she puts frosting on the cookies - - I probably wouldn’t even make that effort!
Lol!! 😂

Then why accept an invitation to a cookie party? Do you go to a White Elephant party empty-handed?

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Anonymous wrote:I was this person one year. Not sorry. I had two young teenagers, a job, and my husband was deployed. I had enough to do, thanks.

But not too busy to eat other people’s cookies, we see.

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Anonymous wrote:I was this person one year. Not sorry. I had two young teenagers, a job, and my husband was deployed. I had enough to do, thanks.

But not too busy to eat other people’s cookies, we see.

Most people’s homemade cookies are nothing special … especially if it’s a neighborhood group of 20-25 people. You might have 2-3 decent bakers in the bunch.

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Anonymous wrote:I think cookie exchanges should be for serious bakers. The idea is to share them at your christmas get togethers. No quality baker wants to share Walmart cookies.
Baking is a hobby of mine, I'm good at it, and this is why I don't participate in cookie exchanges. Everyone wants mine, I don't want theirs. And I'm too busy to bake for other people for basically, free.

Great aunt Betty is coming over, quick break out the cookie exchange cookies from random people’s kitchens that they baked before Thanksgiving and are not at all stale by now! Mmmm mmmm mmmmm!

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Anonymous wrote:I was this person one year. Not sorry. I had two young teenagers, a job, and my husband was deployed. I had enough to do, thanks.

But not too busy to eat other people’s cookies, we see.

Most people’s homemade cookies are nothing special … especially if it’s a neighborhood group of 20-25 people. You might have 2-3 decent bakers in the bunch.

But at least they tried and were good sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*cough cough*

Uh I would be the store bought cookie lady!
Yess….I do not bake.
No reason really, I just do. not. bake.

So of course I am going to be super prejudiced in my answer.

No!
She should not be booted from the list.

At least she puts frosting on the cookies - - I probably wouldn’t even make that effort!
Lol!! 😂

Then why accept an invitation to a cookie party? Do you go to a White Elephant party empty-handed?

She’s special and busy. Probably shows up inappropriately dressed for weddings too because she has main character syndrome.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was this person one year. Not sorry. I had two young teenagers, a job, and my husband was deployed. I had enough to do, thanks.

But not too busy to eat other people’s cookies, we see.

Most people’s homemade cookies are nothing special … especially if it’s a neighborhood group of 20-25 people. You might have 2-3 decent bakers in the bunch.

But at least they tried and were good sports.

No, the finished product is more important if indeed the point is “to share cookies at your gatherings.” Do you want to pick through all the old, stale cookies, and the ones that just didn’t taste good, and the ones from Jessica who let her toddler “help,” and the ones from Lisa who has 3 untrained Huskies who jump on the table at her house? Because that’s going to be at least half or more of the cookies at a random gathering.

[Anonymous]

This is, by far, the most insane thread that’s ever been on DCUM. I can’t believe how tightly wound up you all are about an event that reinforces the patriarchy. It’s Christmas, chill out!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was this person one year. Not sorry. I had two young teenagers, a job, and my husband was deployed. I had enough to do, thanks.

But not too busy to eat other people’s cookies, we see.

Most people’s homemade cookies are nothing special … especially if it’s a neighborhood group of 20-25 people. You might have 2-3 decent bakers in the bunch.

But at least they tried and were good sports.

No, the finished product is more important if indeed the point is “to share cookies at your gatherings.” Do you want to pick through all the old, stale cookies, and the ones that just didn’t taste good, and the ones from Jessica who let her toddler “help,” and the ones from Lisa who has 3 untrained Huskies who jump on the table at her house? Because that’s going to be at least half or more of the cookies at a random gathering.

You’re way over thinking it. Just stay home, this isn’t for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was this person one year. Not sorry. I had two young teenagers, a job, and my husband was deployed. I had enough to do, thanks.

But not too busy to eat other people’s cookies, we see.

Most people’s homemade cookies are nothing special … especially if it’s a neighborhood group of 20-25 people. You might have 2-3 decent bakers in the bunch.

But at least they tried and were good sports.

No, the finished product is more important if indeed the point is “to share cookies at your gatherings.” Do you want to pick through all the old, stale cookies, and the ones that just didn’t taste good, and the ones from Jessica who let her toddler “help,” and the ones from Lisa who has 3 untrained Huskies who jump on the table at her house? Because that’s going to be at least half or more of the cookies at a random gathering.

You’re way over thinking it. Just stay home, this isn’t for you.

Nope, you got caught in a logical contradiction and now you’re upset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*cough cough*

Uh I would be the store bought cookie lady!
Yess….I do not bake.
No reason really, I just do. not. bake.

So of course I am going to be super prejudiced in my answer.

No!
She should not be booted from the list.

At least she puts frosting on the cookies - - I probably wouldn’t even make that effort!
Lol!! 😂

Then why accept an invitation to a cookie party? Do you go to a White Elephant party empty-handed?

to go for fun. Store bought is fine.