It’s cookie week here at Kid’s Birthday Fun. I’m knee deep in holiday baking so I thought I’d share some of my favorite holiday cookie recipes. Monster cookies are a favorite at our house all year round.

During the holiday season you can use red and green M & M’s to give your monster cookies a festive holiday touch. They’re a fun cookie for a cookie party, or a kid’s cookie exchange. Kid’s love to help make cookies that have everything in them but the kitchen sink.

Monster Cookies:

• 3 eggs
• 1 stick of butter
• 2 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 4 1/2 cups oatmeal
• 2 teaspoons of baking soda
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup m & m candies
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350.` Cream the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together. Then add the eggs and the rest of the ingredients, add the oatmeal last, one cup at a time. Drop the cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet by teaspoon. These cookies grow quite a bit when you bake them. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until they’re just starting to brown.

Add them to some peanut butter kiss cookies, or white chocolate cranberry cookies on a festive holiday cookie platter, or give them as a gift.

Enjoy!

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Have you ever thought about a kids cookie exchange party? We’ve had them and they’re great fun! Invite a couple of your kids friends over and let them decorate some cookies, or invite them over with their parents, and bring some cookies to trade. There are several different options, all of them fun!

Here are some cookie ideas and resources that would be great for planning a kids cookie exchange or decorating party:

• Plan A Cookie Party from right here at The Kid’s Birthday Fun Review
• 50 Cute and Tasty Christmas Cookie Ideas from She Knows Parties
• Host the Ultimate Cookie Exchange Party (with recipes for a couple different variations of the Hershey’s Kiss cookies) from She Knows Parties
• Tips For Hosting A Kids Christmas Cookie Decorating Party posted at Play Library
• Cookie Pops Decorating Fun also at Play Library

I absolutely  love these Create-a-photo Cookie Tins. Cookies make a wonderful gift, and wrapped in these tins they’d be wonderful for grandmas, or aunts and uncles.

Just get together with your friends and have a great time decorating and trading cookies!

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I’m a HUGE Wilton fan, I usually get their latest idea book the minute it hits the shelves. I’m really excited about the new Wilton Cookie Exchange Book! Just check out the cover, and you can tell it’s loaded with some fun stuff!

The guide includes classic holiday cookie recipe favorits like gingerbread and shortbread. It also features some tempting new tastes like Butterscotch Chocolate Pecan Bars, Peppermint Ribbon Cookies and Almond Snowballs. Sounds yummy to me!

The book also contains tips for hosting your own cookie party, including suggestions for planning invitations, setting up rules, and packaging the cookies to look their best.

The Wilton Cookie Exchange Book looks like it’s loaded with great ideas for a cookie exchange, from recipes, to decorating and planning. I can’t wait to check it out.

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These cookies are perfect for a harvest or Halloween party. They’re delicious, I promise the kids will scarf them up and ask for more.

~Pumpkin cookie recipe~

Cream together:

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups of flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp salt

Preheat the oven to 375.` Drop the dough by teaspoons on a cookie sheet sprayed with no stick cooking spray. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly brown. Ice with cream cheese icing.

Cream Cheese Icing

1 8 oz cream cheese

1/4 cup butter

1 cup confectioner’s sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

Cream all the ingredients together, and spread it on the pumpkin cookies. Enjoy!

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