The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange

The Sweetest Season Virtual Cookie exchange begins December 2, 2024. This week is all about baking the best cookies and sharing them with the people you care about during the holiday season!

If you love cookies, sign up with your email address below to receive my Holiday Cookie Tin Cheat Sheet, as well as our best cookie recipes, baking tips, tricks and more!

Previous Sweetest Season Cookie Week recipe have included Peppermint Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, Quebec Maple Pecan Drop Cookies, Vanilla Bean Shortbread Cookies and more.

More about The Sweetest Season…

Welcome to the BEST week!

Once known around these parts as Christmas Cookie Week, The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange is The Speckled Palate and Feast + West’s yearly celebration of sugar, butter and cookies.

And I’m inviting you to be a part of it, too, because cookies = love, and the holiday season is all about sharing and spreading love.

TSS Cookie Recipes Throughout the Years
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    Curious what this blogger collaboration has looked like in previous years and the recipes we’ve made and shared for it?

    Here’s a look back at all our posts for the collab:

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    Let’s talk about The Sweetest Season and Cookies for Kids Cancer!

    The Sweetest Season is my annual holiday cookie week.

    In 2011, I decided to share my favorite Christmas cookies… then invited other bloggers to join me. The celebration grew, we changed the name to make it more inclusive, my friend Susannah stepped up to help and the rest is history.

    And now, every year, food bloggers get together to share new holiday cookie recipes.

    This year, we’re raising money in support of Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative and less-toxic treatments for childhood cancer.

    Since 2008, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted nearly $18 million to pediatric cancer research in the form of 100+ research grants to leading pediatric cancer centers. More than 35 treatments available to kids battling cancer today were stemmed from these grants.

    We’d love for you to help us raise money for this cause! You can donate through our fundraising page.

    Currently, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is in a matching window with their friends at OXO. This means OXO will match every dollar up to $100,000 raised through the end of 2024. So whatever money we raise will automatically double!

    More resources for home bakers:

    If you’re a home baker who would like to bake more cookies, I applaud you!

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    Information for Bloggers

    What is The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange?

    A yearly celebration of sugar and butter. A gathering of Internet friends around a virtual cookie table. A way to make new friends, share new recipes and prepare for the upcoming holiday baking season. (Because we all know that’s TOTALLY a thing!)

    If you’re interested, fill out this form so we can keep you informed in 2024 for our exchange.

    When does this virtual cookie exchange occur?

    2024’s cookie exchange will be held from Monday, December 2 through Friday, December 6, 2024. You can share as many or few cookie recipes in those days as your heart desires. During the week, Susannah and I will keep a running list of the recipes shared. And then once the week is over, we will post a round-up of all the fabulous recipes.

    What do I have to do if I want to participate?

    Bake some cookies, make some pretty photos of them and share them at your blog. When you’ve posted the recipe during The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange, fill out this form with your post information so I can add it to the running list of posts, as well as include it in a round-up post, which will be shared the week after the exchange.

    When you share your recipes on social media channels, tag them with #sweetestseasoncookies so we can all follow along!

    Who can participate?

    Anyone who has a blog can participate. You can also participate if you don’t have a food blog… you can simply share your recipes on social media if you don’t have a site.