Announcing the hai-cookie exchange

{white chip chocolate cookies - recipe here}

I wasn't planning on doing the cookie exchange again this year - I thought last year's exchange would have slipped your minds by now. But I keep getting one request after another in my inbox so let's do it. If you want to exchange a dozen or so cookies with someone across the country or across the globe, send me an email with your name and address to battersplattered at hotmail dot com by Friday and I will match you up next weekend. If you'd rather save on postage and only ship within the U.S., let me know. If you're ok with shipping overseas, I'll be sure to match you up with someone in another country so you'll get supercool mail in return. It'll be just like -- well -- Christmas.

And to spice things up (get it? cookies? spiced? snort.), I think you ought to include a handwritten haiku on the topic of...  let's say... cookies, christmas, spiked eggnog, or unpleasant family members. If you're rusty on the particulars of haiku writing, just remember 5 syllables - 7 syllables - 5 syllables.

Here's my off-the-cuff haiku on the topic of jingle bells:

Jingle jingle jing

Gle jingle jingle jingle

Jingle jingle jing.

But I expect much better from you. Or hmmmmm. I don't invite unpleasant relatives to my Christmas revelries but if I did, my haiku would go something like this:

Aunt Henrietta

Is a real pain in the ass.

Shut her up with pie.

Once you get that box in the mail, send me an email letting me know what you baked and wrote and I will sum up all that beautiful baking and poetry in a post that promises to be a hoot. You can include recipes if  you'd like but not if it's Aunt Henrietta's top-secret family heirloom -- you don't wanna make that bitch mad.

Comments

[Jennifer]

I'm super excited about this.:)

[Rebecca]

Hurrah! I knew the hounding would work eventually! Count me in for some cookie action...I just hope the ridiculous state of our Royal Mail doesn't stop me getting things shipped in time.

[Sassy Molassy]

I'd love to be a part of it. too late? I really enjoyed doing it last year.