Store bought cookies for cookie exchange?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

[Anonymous]

Go ahead and make them be homemade. Then she can be passive aggressive and add a sprinkle of cat hair or blow her nose in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

Nobody wants the sneeze and licked finger cookies. Sorry. Make cookies just for your own family with the toddlers, not to serve to other people. I avoid these as well.

[Anonymous]

I would never want to eat home made cookies...especially from some people who I know are gross. Store bought or bakery any day.

[Anonymous]

Its fine

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol. I love her moxy.

It’s moxie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

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[Anonymous]

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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.

I'm the PP who asked. My mom would use them to make plates for the neighbors or for hostess gifts when visiting. But I think the trend has turned now to feel that this is gauche regifting and/or unhygienic. And nobody minds store-bought cookies being out at a casual party. So personally I think cookie exchanges are primarily social events, now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

If you saw the toddler in question, you wouldn’t want to eat anything he touched either. She brings him into the office every few weeks. He always has snot running out of his nose or he’s drooling. He also is constantly sticking his hands in his mouth and touching everything in the office. My coworkers and I hate being around him and don’t want to eat saliva and boogers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

Nobody wants the sneeze and licked finger cookies. Sorry. Make cookies just for your own family with the toddlers, not to serve to other people. I avoid these as well.

So they must be homemade, but you can't have your children help. What holiday cheer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never want to eat home made cookies...especially from some people who I know are gross. Store bought or bakery any day.

People like you don't go to or get invited to cookie exchanges. To all the people saying they would just buy grocery store cookies, the parties I've been to ask for you to submit your recipe as the hostess makes a book of all the recipes. Your Oreos aren't going to cut it. Everyone knows the drill so if you're not a baker you wouldn't be on the list anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

Nobody wants the sneeze and licked finger cookies. Sorry. Make cookies just for your own family with the toddlers, not to serve to other people. I avoid these as well.

So they must be homemade, but you can't have your children help. What holiday cheer!

Cookie bakers make multiple cookies for Christmas. Of the many you will bake you can have your kids help with those, the one for the exchange you can do on your own. The non bakers reveal themselves in so many ways.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

Nobody wants the sneeze and licked finger cookies. Sorry. Make cookies just for your own family with the toddlers, not to serve to other people. I avoid these as well.

So they must be homemade, but you can't have your children help. What holiday cheer!

A toddler doesn’t even know it’s Christmas. Also, these cookies were for coworkers, not relatives who are going to fawn all over the toddler.

[Anonymous]

There’s a lot of low effort cookies that people like…cake pops or balls made with cake mix, buckeyes, that kind of thing. Just make something like that.