On Friday I hosted our second annual baking exchange and today I have joined some of my favorite bloggers to bring you a virtual Christmas cookie exchange! I love Christmas Baking Exchanges because you go to the party with one kind of cookie, but come home with dozens of other goodies to taste! There’s nothing better than seeing all of the cookies out in their decorative packages and getting to fill up your bags with family favorites from friends. Here are 40+ delicious cookie exchange recipes – you are sure to find the perfect cookie to take to your party this holiday season!
Don’t they all look fabulous?!! My contribution to our Baking Exchange this year were these amazing Candy Cane Brownie Blossom cookies. Truly they are to die for! My friend Amy brought them to our swap last year and our whole family was hooked. I posted this recipe before I switched blog platforms and now I have this fancy new printable recipe version for you! Can I get a whoop, whoop?!?! Seriously… so good! Enjoy! 
- 4 oz unsweetened bakers chocolate, melted
- 2 cups white sugar
- ½ cup olive oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp peppermint extract
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 5 dozen Hersheys Candy Cane Kisses
- Mix together the sugar, oil and melted chocolate.
- One at a time, add eggs and mix well.
- Mix in the vanilla and peppermint extracts.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture and mix until smooth and well combined.
- Chill overnight or for at least 4-6 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease cookie sheets.
- Unwrap Hershey’s Kiss candies.
- Roll tsp sized balls of dough in your hand.
- Toss them in the powdered sugar and coat well.
- Place on sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes.
- Upon removing from the oven, immediately press a kiss into the centre of each cookie.
- Place the cookie sheet into the fridge or freezer to cool before the chocolate melts.
- Once cooled remove from the cookie sheet and store.
Be sure to check out, pin, print and share all of the recipes in this awesome swap! Just try not to lick the screen Mmmmkay? 
Andes Mint Cookies|Double Chocolate Mint MnM Cookies|Hot Cocoa Cookies 
Peanut Butter Cake Box Cookie|Raspberry Almond Meltaways|Olaf Nutter Butter Cookies 
Snowflake Meltaway Cookies|Chocolate Turtle Cookie|Candy Cane Brownie Blossoms 
Peanut Butter Chip Cookies|Cranberry Almond Shortbread Bites|No Bake Eggnog Cookies 
Double Chocolate Rum Balls|Magic Cookie Bars|Christmas Molasses Ginger Cookies 
Rosettes|Mint Chocolate Truffle Cookie cups|Cornflake Christmas Wreath Cookies 
Christmas M&M Cookies|Peppermint Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies|Easy Sugar Cookie 
Jelly “Popper” Cookies|Key Lime Pie Bars|Gingersnaps with Dark Chocolate Chips 
Maple Bacon Snickerdoodles|Peppermint Shortbread Cookies|Christmas Chocolate Thumbprints Cookies 
Christmas Tree Brownie Pops|My Favorite Things Cookies|Old-Fashioned Gingersnap Cookies 
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies|Holiday Confetti Sandwich Cookies|Lemon Oatmeal Lacies Christmas Cookie 
Snowball Cookies|Healthy Biscochos (Vegan, Raw, & Grain-Free)|Almond and Milk Chocolate Ganache Thumbprint Cookies 
Porcelain Sugar Cookies|OREO Dipped Christmas Cookies|Rolo Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies {Gluten Free} 
Chocolate Mint Cream Cheese Cake Mix Cookies|Giant Monster Cookies|Crispy Coconut Pecan Butter Cookies 
Candy Cane Sugar Blossoms|Candy Cane Frosted Sugar Cookies 
Be sure to follow along on the Cookie Exchange Pinterest board for year round cookie recipe inspirations! Follow Reasons To Skip The Housework’s board The Cookie Exchange on Pinterest.
this cookie looks so tasty!
those look SOOO yummy! I love the striped kiss on top!
I am seriously drooling over here. I so wish I was a baker…. lol
know what I’m making this weekend. These look so great.
Those look beautiful
Thank you 🙂
These all look amazing. I want them all!
Soo many delicious looking cookies here!!
I love the striped kiss on top! Thanks so much.
so delicous! do you know how many cookies this makes?
5 dozen 🙂
I am wondering how many cookies this recipe yields? You don’t mention it anywhere, and I am wanting to do it for a cookie exchange. Thank you! Please let me know soon!
5 Dozen 🙂
I can’t seem to get the whole recipe up. It only lists 4oz chocolate. I made these last week and want o make them again. Can’t get the ingredients list.
Hmmm try again soon! Not sure whats up!
Only thing I see is the chocolate too. Nothing from there in terms of ingredients. Doing a cookie day Saturday. Anyway to get the full list?
All fixed 🙂
I can’t seem to find how much flour the recipe requires
Sorry! 2 cups
Hi in the recipe it says add flour but flour is not listed ingredients . Please help I am in the middle of making the cookies!
Ack!! I don’t know what’s been happening to this recipe but you need 2cups of flour 🙂
What is icing sugar?
Its the same as powdered sugar 🙂
Is icing sugar the same thing as powdered sugar? Thanks!
Yes, icing sugar = powdered sugar
Hi. I understand the recipe calls for olive oil. That is unusual in a banking recipe. I just want to be sure it is olive oil and not vegetable oil. Did you use extra virgin? light? or just pure olive oil? This is on my cookie list for this year. I hope you still read your comments as I understand this post was quite some time ago. Found you on pinterest. Excited to try these. Thank you.
Hi. I understand the recipe calls for olive oil. That is unusual in a baking recipe. I just want to be sure it is olive oil and not vegetable oil. Did you use extra virgin? light? or just pure olive oil? This is on my cookie list for this year. I hope you still read your comments as I understand this post was quite some time ago. Found you on pinterest. Excited to try these. Thank you.
Hi Lisa,
extra virgin olive oil is what I used but you could totally use vegetable oil in a pinch (Ive used that too). Enjoy!
Has anyone had success with this recipe? Mine came out flat, I’ve made them before using a different recipe and it seems this one is lacking an extra tsp of baking powder anf another cup of flour…
Did you use olive oil? I will be posting a similar recipe in the comments 🙂
I just made these and they oozed all over the tray, didn’t stay firm to push down with kiss. The only thing I did was substitute olive oil for butter. Would that cause what happened? I was so excited about these and now they look like a puffed up scone.
The olive oil is important – we’ve noticed that any substitution makes these cookies runny 🙁 I’ll be posting another, similar recipe that a friend has success with, in the comments. xo
Hello friends!
Just a note – be sure to use olive oil in this recipe – it makes the cookies puff up. Alternately my friend Amy shared another version that seems to be less troublesome:
4 oz unsweetened bakers chocolate, melted
2 cups white sugar
½ cup butter or margarine
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp peppermint extract
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 cup icing sugar
5 dozen Hersheys Candy Cane Kisses