When we set out to create a cookie exchange in the midst of a pandemic, we didn’t quite know what was in store. We put feelers out to our community on Instagram and Facebook, asking for their favorite holiday cookie recipes passed down through their family tree…the cookies that would make it onto the plates of past cookie swaps. We received so many beautiful stories, photographs, and recipes and chose 12 for this year's cookie exchange cookbook. Each has been photographed and each comes with the sweet nostalgia that holiday baking brings.