Cookie Exchange

My Mom to Mom group had a cookie exchange yesterday. It was great. We all made 6 dozen home made cookies to display and trade for the yummies that others brought.

There were rules and prizes and my Snowballs won for Most Unique! The other winners were Kori's Sugar Cookies for Best Lookin' and Stephanie's Thumbprints for Neatest Presentation. She had her kids paint their thumbprints on the bags that held the cookies. The thumbprints were shaped to make wreaths and Christmas trees--so cute! There were so many great cookies and candies and now we're all set for the holidays! We MUST do this every year from now on! Oh, and we're going to make a book with all the recipes, too. love.it.




Here's the Snowball Recipe

Ingredients

1 box red velvet cake mix (I made some with a yellow cake mix, cook as directed on box for 13x9 cake)

1 can cream cheese frosting (16 oz.)

1 package White Chocolate bark

wax paper--Do not use cooling rack

flake shredded coconut

Directions

1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl.

2. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting. (It may be easier to use fingers to mix together, but be warned it will get messy.)

3. Roll mixture into ping pong size balls and lay on cookie sheet. (Should make 45-50. )

4. Chill for several hours. (You can speed this up by putting in the freezer.--note:I found that the frozen balls did much better for dipping)

5. Melt chocolate in microwave per directions on package in small amounts.

6. Roll balls in chocolate and lay on wax paper until firm. (Use a spoon to dip and roll in chocolate and then tap off extra.)

7. Quickly top with coconut before the chocolate cools and hardens