On Saturday I hosted a cookie party. My mom, sister-in-law, cousin, nieces, Dallas’ aunts, and some of my girlfriends all came over. Each brought several dozen cookies, which we laid out and sampled over the course of a few hours.
I served some baba ganoush (Dallas and I love the Whole Foods brand of it and surprisingly, so did my niece Stephanie who’d never had baba ganoush before), sun-dried tomato hummus, veggies, crackers, pretzels and cheeses to try to counter-balance the sweets. We all, especially my niece Jess, enjoyed spiced cider (spiked or not) that my mom helped make from a Chicagoist recipe.
We passed the time talking and eating and listening to holiday music and trimming the tree and watching Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns
These are all the tasty treats we sampled:
- Rachelle’s Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Pretzels (pictured above)
- Rachelle’s Seven Layer Bars
- Rachelle’s Lemon Spritz Cookies
- Hixx’s Cookie Bars
- Mary’s White Cranberries
- Mary’s Christmas Rings
- Mary’s Bacon ~n~ Eggs (pictured above)
- Mary’s Special K Bars
- Erin’s Peanut Butter Kisses (pictured above)
- Naoko’s Half-Dipped Cookies
- Naoko’s Japanese Cookies
- Laura H.’s Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Gail’s Oatmeal Cookies
- Kelly’s Almond Spritz
- Kelly’s Jelly Rolls
- Kelly’s Peanut Butters
- Olivia’s Jammy Pecan Thumbprints
- Olivia’s Coco-Nutella Nuggets
- Laura O.’s Cranberry Bars with Struesel Topping
- Amanda’s Peanut Butter Balls
- Amanda, Stephanie, & Jessica’s Frosted Cut Out Cookies
- Margaret’s Oatmeal-Chocolate-Dried Cherry-Pecan Awesomes (pictured above)
Tied for second place were Kelly’s Jelly Rolls, Olivia’s Jammy Pecan Thumbprints and Mary’s White Chocolate Cranberries. Laura O. won the top prize (a holiday spatula and Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book
I didn’t take too many photos, and the ones I did weren’t of the people at the party.. I need to get better at that sometimes.. but Erin has some photos of friends who attended.
Between this party and my company holiday party, I’m getting into the spirit now. I think my cookie party was a success. Everyone said they had a great time, so I’ll probably try to do it again next year, with a few modifications. Namely, you MUST take home as many cookies as you bring. I have about 500 cookies in my kitchen right now because everyone was being all polite about not taking too much home. Also, I think each person should just make one thing. There were several of us who made more than one candy or cookie and it did turn out to be a bit overwhelming to try to sample everything.
13 responses so far ↓
1 stacy // Dec 10, 2007 at 9:24 am
Hey Rachelle–
Its Nan’s cousin. I was wondering if you could email me some recipes from your cookie party….Could you email me the recipes fro the chocolate covered peanut butter pretzels, lemon spritz cookies, cranberry bars w/ struesel topping and peanut butter balls? They look so delish! Looks like you had a blast too!
Thanks.
Stacy
2 boo birk // Dec 10, 2007 at 10:23 am
hey rachelle-
looks like the first annual cookie and tree-trimming party was a hit!
any chance that i could get a recipe for the “bacon and eggs” treat?
thanks-
boo
boo291811@mac.com
3 Erin // Dec 10, 2007 at 10:46 am
I had a blast! Thank you so much for hosting - it was a great way to get in the spirit of things!
4 Hixx // Dec 10, 2007 at 11:52 am
YAY! Ooh, how I loved the cookie party. I just wish that I had taken a *few* more of those seven layer bars, because um…they were delicious.
Don’t worry Erin, I still loved yours best.
5 jocelyn // Dec 10, 2007 at 12:59 pm
why do people only make those peanut butter kiss cookies around christmas? they’re so good and it seems like i never see them any other time!
6 laura // Dec 10, 2007 at 1:26 pm
that photo of me should be titled “do not attempt to go out in public the day after your birthday.” Ouch. Thanks again for hosting. So much yummyness….
7 Nancy // Dec 10, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Rachelle! This blog entry made me drool! Could you possibly post some of the recipes for these? Spread some Christmas cheer! I would really appreciate 1 or 2 of your favorites!
Cheers,
Nancy
8 RachelleB // Dec 10, 2007 at 5:31 pm
A few people have commented and asked and emailled and asked.. the “Eggs ~n~ Bacon” are just made out of two pretzel sticks, a drop of white chocolate and an M&M. I have a photos for a post on the Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Pretzels. I could post the spritz recipe too. I’ll have to see about the other recipes.
9 Nancy // Dec 10, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Thanks Rach!
I would really be interested to know the recipe for the winner & Erin’s Peanut Butter Kisses (pictured above). They make my mouth water just looking at them!
10 JP // Dec 10, 2007 at 7:29 pm
all the recipes would be scrumptious to have!!
11 Dad & Mom // Dec 10, 2007 at 8:07 pm
so, cookies, candies, bars… I enjoyed meeting all the people! Wow, you know how to have a party! And your tree is gorgeous! Finally to meet people I’d only read about! Funny how I felt I knew a few of them when they walked in the room! ha!~ Oh yeah, and cookies, candies, bars. etc…. and the Cheese, crackers and Veggies & dips and the people ! Fun, fun, fun…
12 jeannette // Dec 11, 2007 at 9:04 pm
oh man - what a great idea for a party! i love your mom’s bacon and eggs. brilliant.
13 James // Dec 12, 2007 at 8:02 am
Just so you know, I’m coming to this next year. And if will prevent me from getting kicked out, I’ll cross-dress.
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