How to Host the Best Christmas Cookie Party – 5 Fabulous & Fun Festive Ideas

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Christmas and cookies go hand in hand, making a cookie party the perfect holiday gathering. Whether keeping the kiddies entertained, breaking the ice with colleagues or bonding with besties, everyone will love these fun and fabulously festive ideas.

1. Cookie Swap & Ugly Sweater Fashion Show

Invite your besties to bake or bring a batch of their favourite cookies. Set up a swap table where guests can share and try the different cookies, ready to be taken home. To keep things cute, leave brown paper bags, colourful markers and festive ribbons for friends to decorate ‘doggie bags’ to take home towards the end of the party.

Pair this with a festive fashion show. Encourage guests to don gaudy Christmas attire (sweaters, t-shirts, earrings, hats, novelty glasses, etc.). The ugliest outfit wins.

Find out what your favourite cookie says about your personality.

2. Bedazzled Biscuits

For hands-on fun, a cookie decorating party is a hit with all ages. Prepare different cookie shapes as blank canvases – think stars, reindeer, snowflakes, Santas and snow figures. Set up a decorating station where people can flaunt their fabulous frosting skills and decorate with edible glitter, sprinkles, dragées and coloured sugar.

Bonus idea: Offer a ‘Decorate & Donate’ option, where guests can decorate cookies to be gifted to a local charity or community centre.

3. Cookies & Christmas Classics

If your friends and family enjoy baking, host a cookie-making session. Provide dough in various flavours – gingerbread, peanut butter, coffee and chocolate – and let guests cut, bake and decorate their own cookies. Place fun toppings on the table, from chocolate to Speckled Eggs and more. It’s a perfect way to combine creativity with holiday bonding.

Bond over a Christmas movie with loved ones. If you already know they’ll be bickering over the movie choice, tell everyone to write a movie title on a piece of paper, fold it, place it in a jar, and do a blindfolded pick – it’s that simple!

If your cookies flop, get a box of mondvol cookies.

4. Biscuits & Boozy Beverages

For a grown-up twist, turn your cookie party into a pairing event. Think mulled wine with gingerbread cookies or peanut butter bourbon hot chocolate with classic choc chip. Create a small tasting menu where each cookie is matched with a drink.

Alternatively, offer a DIY hot chocolate station where guests can customise their drinks with marshmallows, whipped cream and flavoured syrups. It might not be snowy in the Southern Hemisphere, but that doesn’t mean you can’t dream of having a ‘white Christmas’.

5. Cookie Championships

Add some friendly competition to your party with cookie-themed games. Host a speedy frosting challenge to see who can decorate the most beautiful cookies in record time. Appoint judges – ones that won’t award extra points to family favourites!

If you’re hosting a cookie swap, blindfold guests and play ‘Guess the Ingredient’, where guests will have to identify the flavour of the cookie.

Another creative cookie party idea: throw a ‘Cookie Trivia party’ and test everyone’s knowledge of Christmas traditions from around the world. The winner gets a big hamper of cookies. Runner-up and third-place winners get stuffed stockings.