Avoid cookie madness by staying on top of your swap. For a festive, stress-free party, follow these easy steps:
Who to Invite
- Go for six to ten guests. That’s enough to make your exchange worthwhile, and your party somewhat intimate.
- Print out this handy invitation and guest list to make planning a breeze.
One Week in Advance
- Send an e-mail reminder to guests.
- Select your cookie! Our SPLENDA® Brand recipes are sure to be the hit of your party. Specially developed and tested, these recipes take the guess work out of your cookie selection.
- Mix up your dough and pop it in the freezer.
Tip: Substitute SPLENDA® Sugar Blend or SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener Granulated for pure sugar and/or SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend for brown sugar.
- Get crafty! Create labels for each creation and gift tags too.
- Organize airtight storage containers, boxes or tins and packing materials to make wrapping a snap, and make sure to have some extra plastic bags on hand. Don’t be shy about asking guests to bring their own special paper or decorative tins.
A Day or So Before:
- Spruce up the house with festive decorations and arrange furniture.
- Shop for topping or icing ingredients and last-minute essentials like sparkling water, juices, coffee and tea and SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener.
- Start preparations for appetizers.
- Make sure your home is squeaky clean.
- Select holiday music and platters and cake stands to display cookies.
The Day of the Main Event
- Tidy up – company’s coming!
- Make or assemble snacks.
- Clear a table for platters and cake stands and place display cards nearby.
- Leave plenty of time to bake your scrumptious cookies.
- Whip up party drinks, brew coffee and slip into something festive.
Decorating Ideas:
Keep it simple! String up colorful holiday lights, deck the halls with sprigs of holly or break out holiday themed napkins, plates and tablecloths.
Entertaining Ideas:
Round out your cookie menu with delicious drinks like Hot Brown Sugar Tea and Spiced Apple Mulled Cider made with SPLENDA® Sugar Blend and SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener products. Cheers! Get more entertaining recipes here.
Party Ideas:
Remind guests to print out festive SPLENDA® recipe cards and fill in their recipes to hand out to the group. The cards serve as a merry memento of your cookie swap and they’re a great way to stay organized. Print out recipe cards here.
Cookie Swap Basics:
One recipe per friend is all you need. Before the party, ask each guest to make a dozen homemade cookies for each swapper, plus an extra dozen for sampling. Avoid cookie duplication (yes there can be too much of a good thing!) and cookie crumbling by requesting that everyone bake something different and something sturdy. The goal is for guests to go home with a vast variety of shapes, sizes and tastes, not dozens of Santa-shaped sugar cookies.
How to Package:
Once you’ve divided assortments it’s time to conquer wrapping! Opt for pretty tins or stock your packaging area with cardboard boxes, tissue paper, ribbons, durable paper plates, scissors, baking papers, cellophane and gift tags.
Conversion Charts and Calculators:
Talk about sweet satisfaction! Substitute SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener Granulated or SPLENDA® Sugar Blend products for pure sugar and dramatically reduce your sugar, calorie and carbohydrate intake.
1 cup of SPLENDA® Granulated is equal in sweetness to 1 cup of sugar or 1/2 cup of SPLENDA® Sugar Blend can replace a full cup of sugar required in a recipe. Click here for a printable SPLENDA® Sugar Blend Conversion Chart.
For more conversions, check out our printable Sweet Cheat Sheet.
Bake with half the sugar! Use our SPLENDA® Sugar Blend Calculator to find the right blend for your recipe.
How much sugar do you use in a day, week, year? Find out now with our Add It Up Calculator and get a jump on a healthier New Year.
Baking Tips and FAQs:
Cooking and Baking FAQs
Find out which SPLENDA® Sweetener Product to use in your recipe, how to cook and bake with the different SPLENDA® Sweetener Products, and get some other useful tips.
Cooking and Baking Tips for SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated
Here you can find tips on substitution for confections, how SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated will affect volume/height, expected texture changes when creaming with butter or margarine as well as differences in baked, jam, and jelly textures; in flavors, yeast activation, browning, bake times, and storage.
Cooking and Baking Tips for SPLENDA® Sugar Blend
Here you can find information on SPLENDA® Sugar Blend substitution, combining with chocolate or melted butter, for use in cakes, how substitution affects yeast breads, how to melt or carmelize, for use in cookies or spreads, and how to store your baked goods.
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