Christmas Recipe Exchange Ideas!?!
Christmas Recipe Exchange Ideas!?
I am having a Christmas Recipe Exchange. I have alot of recipe ideas and my guests are also bringing food and recipes. I need some ideas besides food that me and my guests can enjoy for the holidays!! Any ideas would be very helpful. Thanks :-)
Additional Details8 months ago
OK, let me say this again.
I don't need any recipes.
I need other ideas.
Answers:
8 months ago
OK, let me say this again.
I don't need any recipes.
I need other ideas.
lol. I see all the recipes! If you are looking for ideas for the party, we of course enjoy the white elephant gifts, in addition to the regular gift stuff. It's funny to see what weird cheap under 5 dollar gifts people pick out and you can steal them from others and stuff. We also like to do the baby picture game, where everyone brings a baby picture and you have to guess who is who from the pictures. If push comes to shove, I always find Karaoke is a godsend and so is just good old fashioned Christmas carols and stuff, even though I guess that's a little old fashioned. Some of us get together and have fun designing our very own Christmas stockings or ornaments too. I go to the craft store and buy a whole bunch of different beads and stickers and all sorts of stuff. It's fun for kids and adults. Hope this helps :) Eat something for me!
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I plan on making these cookies using my Mother's Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe......
Angelic Cookies
http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/showrec...
Red and Green Holiday Pinwheels
http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/showrec...
OLGA's SUGAR COOKIES:
1/2 cup butter (softened)
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
In a large bowl, cream butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla extract until light and fluffy. Sift dry ingredients together and add to butter mixture. Chill dough for 1 to 2 hours.
On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutters. Place on greased baking sheets or parchment paper. Sprinkle with colored sugar or leave plain to frost later. Bake at 350 degrees for 5 to10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on wire racks.
ESTHER's CREAM CHEESE TARTS:
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 oz graham crackers, crushed
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons butter, melted
1 can Cherry Pie Filling
Beat together cream cheese, egg, sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. Set aside. In another bowl combine graham crackers crumbs, sugar and melted butter. Line tart pan with small paper liners. Put a teaspoon graham cracker mixture in liner and press against liner to make a crust. (have crumbs go up side of liner) Spoon tablespoon cheese mixture over crumbs. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Cool on rack. Top each tart with cherry pie filling or desired fruit. Keep Refrigerated.
ESTHER's FUDGE BALLS:
2 1/2 cups vanilla wafer cookies, made into crumbs
1 cup (6 oz.) semisweet chocolate chips
3 Tablespoons light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1 cup walnuts, chopped
Chocolate Sprinkles - use Red & Green
Crush vanilla wafer cookies in a plastic bag with a rolling pin or process in food processor into crumbs and set aside. Stir chocolate chips in a bowl over hot water or use a double boiler; until melted. Stir in corn syrup. Add vanilla, evaporated milk, confectioners sugar, cookie crumbs and nuts and mix thoroughly. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and roll into chocolate sprinkles to coat. Place on wax paper to set.
Christmas Recipes
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Christmas Dinner Recipes
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Christmas Cookie Recipes
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Christmas Candy Recipes
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Christmas Dessert Recipes
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Christmas Cake Recipes
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Christmas Fudge Recipes
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Hot Buttered Rum
(a nice alternative to mulled wine, this serves 1)
2 ounces light Bacardi
lemon juice (one lemon's worth), saving a small strip of peel
1 1/2 teaspoons brown sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons butter -- NO substitutions!
Boiling water
Place a spoon into the glass or mug. Pour the rum down the spoon, adding the lemon juice and peel. Pour enough boiling water into the tall mug to fill it. Stir in brown sugar, then add the butter. Stir until melted and mixed. Serves one (which, as we all know, is the loneliest number).
Sweet Potatoes salad. My favorite. My cousins ask me to make this on family gatherings.
Board games? Card games?
Or driving around looking at the Christmas lights? Many cities and towns provide a map of houses that are participating.
If you felt like it, carolling with candles to your neighbors can be fun!
How about a Secret Santa? You and your guests agree to purchase a small gift (set the price standard for everyone). From there, they can draw names from a bowl or hat. The person's name that they picked should be the person they present the gift to. Another idea is to take a poll and ask guests to name their favorite Christmas song and by which recording artist. You can search the web to download their chosen favorites onto a blank disc and make a personalized compilation of songs onto a CD. A website like musicmatch.com or windows media player will allow you to burn (copy) several copies of the disc onto numerous blank discs. You can hand them out as a unique party favor for your guests to share with their families during the holidays!
How about a Spanish style Christmas?
Check out the recipes on:
http://www.spanish-property-today.com...
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You can make different gift bags w/their favorite teas, coffees or ciders and have biscotti in it too. Since all this stuff is prepackaged you don't have to worry about it going bad. Or even do ones with various soups and have goldfish packages or crackers.
Christmas ornaments, family traditions, holiday issue magazines, are all good for exchanging....
singing christmas carols together after a few bottles of wine is always fun and memorable,
have a "raffle ' for a nice recipe box to keep the recipes in.
pass the box of chocolate...tell your favorite childhood holiday experience, enjoy a chocolate., and pass to next person...
have fun!
PRETTY SLICK! Irina C uses my family's homemade recipes as her own JUST to win answer.
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Here's some craft ideas that you may find interesting.
http://www.make-stuff.com/hollidays/chri...
http://www.imagitek.com/xmas/crafts/...
http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/christmas...
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/...
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/christm...
http://www.angiesrealm.com/christmas/cra...
Since this is a food related party, why not have everyone bring something for a food pantry? Maybe as part of the festivities you could put together a food basket that you would present to a group that you know distribute baskets.
As party gifts for your guests to take home - how about a scrapbooking activity where everyone puts together their own recipe book of recipes from the event. You could provide the empty books or binders and ask everyone to bring specific items for all to use to create their own personal book. Maybe someone could take digital photos which everyone could get later to add to their book.
What about bringing in a chef from a local retaurant or cooking school to teach your group a specific technique - such as making spring rolls, or fancy appetizers. Or maybe someone in your group would be good at doing something like that.
Have graham crackers and various things that could be used with royal icing to create a gingerbread village. We did this one year at our house all afternoon Christmas Eve and was able to save the village - made on a sheets of heavy cardboard covered wtih foil, for years. (we packed it away in airtight plastic box.)
I provided pretzel sticks, gum drops, wafer candies, licorice, little gingerbread people from a box, jelly beans, various other candies,etc. Everything used had to be edible. People just worked on parts of the village as the mood struck them and them went on to something else. Some came back several times. We had a ball and the end results were wonderful!
Hope this gave you a few ideas and maybe sparked some of your own. Have a great party - wish I could be there!
We have done ornament exchanges or any christmas decoration exchange. Both worked well at my office. The ornament is nice because everyone has their own unique style and you can get some beautiful ornaments. Set a price range for how much the gift needs to be. Hope this helps!!!
Happy Holidays!!!
:)