(Orange drop cookies are the perfect not-chocolate-chip holiday treat and my go-to recipe for holiday cookie exchanges!)

So Cookie Exchange Parties are not really a thing in New Zealand, but I’m thinking about hosting one this year.

When we lived in Colorado, we went to my mother-in-laws cookie party every year and LOVED trading yummies and then having a whole smorgasbord of holiday treats leading up to Christmas.

I love making my mama’s fudge recipe for cookie exchanges! And I also feel like Cookie Exchange parties are the perfect opportunity to make not-chocolate-chip cookies (which admittedly, is 75% of my baking- and that number would be way higher if we weren’t on such a rhubarb crumble/banana bread kick).

These Orange Drop Cookies are the PERFECT solution.

A friend brought them to a baby shower years ago and they are still so high on my list- totally Cookie Exchange recipe material!