About this Event
Sunday Morning 10 AM - 12 PM Morning Session The Early Birdies!
Grainbakers is producing a HUGE Christmas Cookie Swap. Limited to 200 participants.
You would love to go to a cookie swap. This is your invitation to The Greatest Cookie Swap, a festive cookie exchange with structure, sparkle, excellent cookies, and absolutely no holiday awkwardness. Grainbakers handles the setup, cookie check-in, counting, sorting, flow, and cleanup. You bring your best homemade cookies, enjoy a drink, spend a few festive hours with friends, and leave with a beautiful box filled with cookies that feel fair, special, and worth the effort.
How Does The Great Cookie Swap Work?
Bake 36 Cookies.
Bring 36 homemade cookies made from one recipe. Cookie guidelines will be sent before the event so everyone knows what qualifies.
Check In With Santa’s Helpers - GCS Staff
Check in your 36 cookies with our Great Cookie Swap Santa’s Helpers. They will confirm your cookie count, ensure every entry is homemade and swap-ready.
Get Your Drink Token And Entrance Ticket
Receive your included drink token and your official entrance ticket to the swap zone. Mulled Cider and Mulled Wine (With or without Alcoholic Cheer), Holiday Cocktails, Canyon Club Brewing Beer and Wine available!
Enter The Swap Zone
Only ticket holders may enter the official SWAP ZONE.
Fill Your Signature Box
Follow our friendly, organized swap process and select 36 cookies from the assortment. Our cookie counters will keep everything fair, calm, and Jessica-free.
Take Home The Good Stuff
Leave with a beautiful Great Cookie Swap signature box filled with 36 elevated homemade cookies. Keep them, share them, or give the whole box as a very impressive holiday gift.
VIP / FAQ:
What? Why buy a ticket to a cookie swap? 🤣
Because this is not a free-for-all around a folding table. Grainbakers handles the setup, flow, counting, sorting, cookie checking, and cleanup so you can relax and enjoy the event. (We're also adding in so many specialty cookies so everyone is guaranteed to be impressed!) Our Great Cookie Swap Santa’s Helpers will make sure every cookie entering the swap is truly homemade. No Chips Ahoy. No sad grocery store clamshells. No holiday crimes.
Our cookie counters will count the cookies coming in and going out so everyone receives a fair share. You will never have to say, “Gee, Karen, you seem to have 61 cookies over there.”
Devil's Canyon will be open all day. Your ticket will give you access to the Great Cookie Swap Event in the Barrel Room. After that, you're free to enjoy the campus! The bar will be open all day. We expect to have food trucks in the afternoon. Your ticket includes a drink token. Additional drinks will be available for purchase.
Every guest will leave with a Great Cookie Swap signature box. It is beautiful enough to bring home or give as a gift. You're gonna Instagram!
Cookie guidelines will be sent before the event. Everyone will know what to bake, how many cookies to bring, and exactly how the swap will work.
Q: I'm a PRO Baker or Cottage Baker and sell cookies. Can I attend and promote my business? A: YES! We're thrilled to have your talent and expertise! There will be a lovely card with every cookie setup. You can give your name, business and Instagram so people can reach out to you! Promote your business!
Q: Can guests come with ticketed swappers to enjoy cookies? A: YES! Devil's Canyon is HUGE. Plenty of hangout areas and access to drinks will be available for non-participants to wait for you, and then you can dive into your box when you step out of The Swap Zone.
If you typically make cookies for sale and would like to advertise this, you are welcome to put out a 4" x 6" sign with your cookies.
Prizes, AWARDS and glory? YES and VIP Celebrity JUDGES!
1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place awards with ribbons will be presented, along with a few specialty categories. Imagine that glory and bragging rights! Our three GCS judges have the HIGHEST standards! It will be competitive!
This class is:
This event is good for groups, including coworkers!
This event is a perfect friend date!
This is the perfect Mother & Daughter outing!
This event is a festive family outing for adults!
This event is good for a solo outing.
This event is a great gift activity.
This event is perfect for serious cookie lovers.
You may bring any type of beautiful cookies or Christmas cookies. Cake pops, brownies and fudge are not cookies.
Allergen Considerations:
This event is at your own risk. Please do not attempt if you have food allergies.
Eggs, butter, milk and nuts in home kitchens will be part of this event.
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