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Post by Emily on Dec 8, 2003 13:54:51 GMT -5
I'm wondering what people do to type up their recipes for the cookies, do you exchange the recipe also and if so do you have a "recipe card" program? Or some how to make the printed item pretty?
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Post by Tracy OConnell on Dec 8, 2003 15:29:59 GMT -5
 Hi again Emily, I also replied to you under my original post (7th annual cookie swap). For the past 7 years, I have created my color recipe booklets in PrintShop. It's a great graphics software program. Everyone has to send me their recipes by the Friday before my swap (this Friday is their DEADLINE!). I use cute graphics and fonts and my husband prints the booklets for me at work on his color laser printer. I bind the booklets with plastic report covers and the girls just love getting them. I also include their appetizer recipes as well as their cookie recipes. (Everyone brings a homemade appetizer to my swap and we all love trading the recipes!!!). The book usually winds up being about 50-75 pages of great recipes!!! If someone is making butter cookies, I will use a cartoon stick of butter with little eyes and I do borders on the pages and everything - trying to keep in the theme of the recipe. Eggs, milk, flour, etc. Any graphics program will work just fine (even Word!). Good luck with your recipe book! Tracy from NJ
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Post by emburton on Dec 8, 2003 16:31:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the ideas. I have a similiar program like print shop so I will probably use that then. So when you make the booklets, you print them out on regular 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper?
I'm planning to make a recipe booklet of all things I've done over the holiday as gifts. So thanks for your help.
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Post by Emburton on Dec 9, 2003 11:29:55 GMT -5
Yes, I print the recipes in color on 8 1/2 x 11 paper and put them in plastic report covers. The girls love them. Good luck!
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Post by Tracy OConnell on Dec 9, 2003 11:30:45 GMT -5
emburton - Sorry about that... I meant to put my name where it says "Name" but I typed your name instead. LOL  |
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Post by Annebo on Aug 25, 2004 17:14:15 GMT -5
Why not start a website around your cookie exchange (like Robin)!!
I am the editor for an 8th grade reunion website. I'm planning to invite the ladies in our class from our home state to an exchange in December. I'm thinking of asking people to e-mail me their recipes and post them on the class website. That way everyone in the class could see them. It would also be an economical alternative to printing recipe booklets!
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Post by Kathy G on Aug 27, 2004 13:02:25 GMT -5
I send a blank template (8 1/2 x 11) with the invitation and ask that all recipes be returned to me by Nov1. I then copy, collate and put together a cookie recipe book that includes all cookies (that make it to me by the deadline) and recipes for the food I prepare and serve. Coming up on my 5th exhange.
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Hi again Emily,
