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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]5 dozen is nothing. The minimum for a swap should be 6 dozen so you go home with 12 cookies of 6 varieties - or 6 cookies each of 12 varieties!

I have seen 3 doz swaps and it’s just sad, but I was raised in the NE Ohio / Western PA tradition of “cookie tables.” And if you entertain at all over the holidays it’s expected that you present a large platter with an aesthetically arranged selection of cookies of various flavors, shapes, and colors.

[b]The point of a cookie swap is that you make 6 -12 dozen of a single recipe. Ideally your signature recipe that you are known for and is easy for you. That is way faster and easier than making 6-12 varieties at once. [/b]

I make sugar cookie cutouts with royal icing designs. People regularly ask if I sell them professionally. I promise my cookies are the most labor intensive at the swap unless you make lady fingers/clothespin cookies. I do not complain about the volume because the whole point is that I don’t want to make snowballs, pecan tarts, peanut butter blossoms, grasshopper brownies, gingerbread men, etc.
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This is the point I haven’t seen addressed yet. All of the cookie swaps I’ve ever participated in follow this basic rule. Whatever the quantity is supposed to be, each participant brings one kind of cookie. [/quote]

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