This review was prepared by Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings.
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Julia Usher's Cookie Swap: Creative Treats to Share Throughout the Year book is a cookbook full of original cookie ideas to make all year long for different occasions. Her main premise: cookie swaps are not just for Christmas anymore! Cookie swaps are the ideal place to share family baking secrets, discover new ways of making cookies and come home with a box full of different types of cookies lovingly made by your friends and family. The book walks you through all steps to organizing the perfect, delicious cookie swap. From making the best crumbly cookies, to choosing a cookie swap theme and beautifully wrapping, labeling and packaging the cookies, this book has it all!

The book is divided into sections based on different cookie themes. My favorites? Her great ideas for Easter-themed cookie swaps with lovely Bird's Nests, her summer-inspired Chocolate-Chai Burgers with Sesame Seed Buns, her Halloween Great Pumpkin Cookies and her Anise Scented Sugar Cookie Trees. For all of us who have only been to cookie swaps during the Christmas season, this book will inspire you to organize baking parties throughout the year and to make each batch of cookies more detailed and bakery-worthy than the next.