Let’s face it: The annual cookie exchange can feel a bit...stale. Year after year, Sally in human resources brings the same peanut butter cookies, and your neighbor always drops off gingerbread stars.

Holiday baking season is here, and nothing spreads cheer quite like a batch of cookies fresh from the oven. Whether you’re ...

Now that the communal meal of Thanksgiving has passed, it’s time to start getting serious about Christmas cookies — and cookie exchanges. Home bakers have long used plates of holiday cookies as gifts ...

The Cookie Swap cookies may be long gone, but the recipes live on! Here are a number of recipes and lots of photos from the swap last weekend. My great thanks to everyone who attended! Your cookies ...

A holiday cookie exchange is a great way to spend time with friends, family, and neighbors, plus come home with extra cookies ...

Amanda Cupcake and local author Eliza Evans talk about the newest book and how you can make a delicious cookie recipe with the book. Also for more sweet treats check out their first annual Great ...

Many people show up at a holiday party and dig in to the Christmas cookies that line the dessert table. Few, though, have any idea how some of them ended up there. Your host likely didn't make all of ...

'Tis the season to indulge in the kitchen and while it's fun to try new recipes and undertake big baking projects like pies and buche de noel, sometimes all you want is a simple, tried and true ...

Let’s enjoy today, but not forget to clip this column. We’re talking cookies, delicious ones, holiday-worthy ones, cookies good enough to bring to Granny’s house or to our favorite cookie exchange.

The cookie swap followed Freundl from city to city as she and her husband moved their young family, and when they landed in Mankato (with three daughters), the swap grew the largest, she said, always ...

In early December, a group of Smart Shopper readers got together for our annual cookie exchange, coupon swap and food drive. There were lots of delicious cookies and here are the recipes for many of ...