What a delicious assortment of Christmas cookies for kids to love - A SUPERHERO, a BEAUTY QUEEN, a CELEBRITY, an ATHLETE, - there's a cookie for everyone! This rhyming holiday story has a lesson about self-acceptance and avoiding comparisons too! It's what's on the inside that truly matters. A CHRISTMAS COOKIE EXCHANGE reveals how one fruit-filled oatmeal cookie learns not to get wrapped up in outside appearances, but to focus on one's character. Grab a mug of cocoa, and of course a cookie, and enjoy this fresh, seasonal tale that's fun to read aloud!

Over one hundred Christmas cookie recipes, plus tips on throwing the right cookie exchange party for you, to make your holiday season merry and bright. What special cookies evoke Christmastime for you? Gingerbread? Butter cookies shaped like stars? Chocolate chip cookies baked with red and green candies? All your favorite cookies and more are here! Very Merry Cookie Party contains more than 100 recipes for everything from brownies, spice cookies, and nut balls to cookie ornaments, slice-and-bake treats, and recipes for your special holiday stamps, molds, cutters, and cookie press. Learn how to throw a cookie exchange party with friends or at the office, from making invites to suggestions for choosing a worthy charitable cause to benefit during the holiday season. Your toffee-studded Oatmeal Brickle Nuggets, Chocolate Sandwich Cookies with Marshmallow-Mint Filling, or Mini-Eggnog Madeleines will disappear from the cookie table! All of your friends will want your special recipes for Macaroons with Almond Paste, Pistachio and Cranberry Biscotti, Candied-Fruit Florentines, or Father Christmas S’mores, shaped like Santa but oozing with gooey marshmallow filling. Multiply the joys of holiday baking this season. May your Christmas cookie jar overflow with good cheer!

This guide to the Christmas cookie exchange, where everyone shows up with a few batches of homemade cookies to swap, includes more than 100 recipes, plus tips for decorating, planning, and throwing the party.

Bernie and Libby Simmons, caterers extraordinaire, are hosting a televised cookie contest just in time for Christmas, but unfriendly rivalries cook up a cutthroat competition.

From the test kitchen of America’s iconic lifestyle magazine, recipes and tips for participating in or hosting a holiday cookie exchange—includes photos. Butterscotch Fingers, Chocolate Crinkles, Gingerbread Cut-Outs, Peppermint Meringues: all these Christmas cookies sound delectable, but nobody can bake dozens of recipes at the same time. The solution? A swap! All across America, families, neighbors, community, and church groups gather at Christmas cookie swaps, where each participant brings a large batch of his or her favorite recipe to share. Everyone fills a plate or tin with samplings of the tasty treats; the more people, the merrier—and the more kinds of cookies to try. It’s a fun way to enjoy a variety of Christmas tastes without doing all the work yourself—and to celebrate with those you love. Good Housekeeping helps home bakers enter into the joy, camaraderie, and pure deliciousness of this tradition with a new collection of 60 favorite Christmas cookie recipes from around the world—each configured to make batches of at least eight dozen cookies. Choose from holiday classics and contemporary twists; they’re easy to make with everyday ingredients. And each recipe has been triple-tested for success in the famed Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, so you can bake with confidence. For extra help, there are also great tips on techniques and shortcuts, as well as fun ideas for throwing the best cookie swap ever.

Should a cookie be judged by its sprinkles?Teach children what's in their hearts is more important than outside appearances.Phil is a plain oatmeal cookie with a yummy fruit filling!He feels shy and a little sad next to the decorated Christmas cookies at the Christmas cookie exchange party. He longs to be fancy like them. With support and confirmation from an assortment of cookies: a superhero, a princess, a celebrity, and an athlete, Phil understands his feelings matter, and it is the sweetness within that counts. A Christmas Cookie Exchange is a colorful, unique rhyming story with an essential, positive lesson presented in a festive, child-friendly way. Go beyond other Christmas books for kids with: a unique underlying message - self-acceptance and inclusion are important in today's world, discussion opportunities - it's okay to talk about emotions and feelings, celebrate differences - cookies, like friends, are diverse and come in all shapes and sizes, christmas cookie recipes - included for each type of cookie mentioned inside. If you are looking for meaningful Christmas books for children, A Christmas Cookie Exchange is a sweet, heartwarming story for the holiday season and the new year ahead!

Christmas cookies, a party and a dead body... With Christmas just around the corner, Maddie Mills is happier than she's been in years. She's enjoying living in her hometown with her two lovable Westies. With her best childhood friend and sister in her life again, and the reopening of her parents' bakery with her niece, she is excited to see what the future holds. When she is invited to the local Christmas cookie exchange, she puts on her baking hat, so she can show off her delicious cookies and meet some of the locals. But her best-laid plans come crumbling down when someone turns up dead. With a party full of suspects, Maddie decides to do a little snooping to help nab the killer. But will the perplexing police chief let her help, or will he stop her in her tracks? The victim had more enemies than Maddie bargained for, and things are more complicated than they seem. Will Maddie find the murderer in time for Christmas? Or has she bitten off more than she can chew? Will her sleuthing efforts turn out to be a recipe for disaster? Recipes included: Gingerbread Christmas Tree Cupcakes and Gingerbread Cookies Corpse at the Christmas Cookie Exchange is the page-turning third book in the fun Maddie Mills Cozy Mystery Series. If you like cute dogs, strong female sleuths and a touch of romance, then you'll love this clean, heartwarming whodunnit by USA Today and WSJ Bestselling Author Cindy Bell. Buy Corpse at the Christmas Cookie Exchange to start solving the mystery today!