Desserts
Holiday Cookie Exchange: 25 Years Later
Sometime around Thanksgiving, Mary Bevilacqua starts thinking about the Exchange. She decides whom she’ll invite and sends out invitations. She makes up the menu for the meal, and then, most important, she wonders what the cookie will be this year: Lemon snowballs? Nutmeg logs? Chocolate-peppermint bars? The Wellesley Cookie Exchange has been part of Mary’s […]

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I purchased this great cookie recipes from the Cookie Exchange Favorites and have enjoyed baking these recipes.
I went and order the Cookie Exchange Fravorites, yet didnot get an email as to when I would be getting it. ??
I am a native Mainer and 33 years ago I purchased the Wellesley Cookie Exchange Cookbook to give to my friend, co-worker and master baker as a hint to start our own cookie exchange in California. We initially started with the original ideas from the Cookie Exchange book but we have now transitioned into a more California casual approach. For 32 years we have been celebrating the cookie swap with co-workers, friends, and family and I wanted you to know that the tradition lives on!
We love hearing that, Joyce! Happy baking!