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Christmas Cookie Wheel – Holiday Baking & Cookie Exchange Decider

About this Christmas cookie wheel

Filling tins for the annual neighborhood cookie exchange? The Christmas Cookie Wheel selects iconic holiday confectionery recipes that fill your home with the warm scents of butter, ginger, and cinnamon.

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How to use the Christmas cookie wheel

  1. 1

    Spin the wheel to choose your weekend holiday baking project.

  2. 2

    Double the batch to share with neighbors, teachers, and coworkers.

Ways to use this wheel

  • Cookie Exchange Assignment: Each participant in your exchange group spins for their assigned batch.
  • Holiday Gift Tins: Assemble festive tins featuring 3 different cookies selected by the wheel.

What to bake this year

Cookie lovers often bake the same recipes every year. The wheel offers gingerbread men, frosted sugar cookies, snickerdoodles and chocolate crinkles. Spin to pick the next batch, or to choose what each friend brings to a cookie exchange.

Plan a baking day, and mix doughs that can be made ahead with those that need to be fresh. Cut-out cookies and gingerbread freeze well.

Cookie exchange tips

In an exchange, each person bakes one type and brings enough to share. Assign recipes by wheel so you do not end up with five batches of the same one. Label ingredients for allergies, and package cookies in sturdy tins.

All 8 entries on this wheel

  • Classic Spiced Gingerbread Men with Royal Icing
  • Soft Cut-Out Frosted Holiday Sugar Cookies
  • Cinnamon Sugar Snickerdoodles with Crisp Edges
  • Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Powdered Sugar Snow
  • Peppermint Bark & Crushed Candy Cane Shortbread
  • Chewy White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies
  • Peanut Butter Blossoms with Hershey’s Kisses
  • Buttery Raspberry Jam Linzer Tart Cookies

Frequently asked questions

Are recipes suitable for baking with young kids?

Yes, cut-out sugar cookies and gingerbread men are wonderful family activities for children.

What is on the Christmas Cookie Wheel?

It opens with 8 entries: Classic Spiced Gingerbread Men with Royal Icing, Soft Cut-Out Frosted Holiday Sugar Cookies, Cinnamon Sugar Snickerdoodles with Crisp Edges and 5 more. Everything on it is editable, so you can swap in your own list in a few seconds.

What can I use this wheel for?

People use it for the holiday season. Popular ideas include Cookie Exchange Assignment and Holiday Gift Tins. For example, Cookie Exchange Assignment: each participant in your exchange group spins for their assigned batch.

Is this wheel really random?

Yes. Each spin uses your browser's secure random number generator. With 8 entries and equal weights, every slice has a 12.5% chance, and nothing is rigged or stored on a server. The how our randomness works page explains it in detail.

Can I stop the same result coming up twice?

Yes. The wheel can drop each result after it is picked, so the wheel never shows the same entry twice until you reset the list. The option is called Remove winner.

Can I share or embed this wheel?

Yes. The Share button gives you a link with your edited list built in, so anyone who opens it sees the same wheel. The Embed button gives you code to place it on your own page.

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