Bakers to attempt record cookie exchange at Wedding Cookie Table Community’s event
If you’re looking to get a glimpse of the World’s Largest Christmas Cookie Exchange – and satisfy your sweet tooth – this weekend, stop by the Washington County Fairgrounds on Sunday, Nov. 30, from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
The Wedding Cookie Table Community will attempt to set a record for the largest Christmas Cookie Exchange, with participants exchanging cookies both at the fairgrounds and at sites throughout the country and in New Zealand.
The fun-filled exchange features teams of 10 bakers wearing themed outfits, who will decorate cookie tables and exchange holiday cookies.
Teams have come up with clever names – Community Kitchen Pittsburgh’s Team “Sweet Tooth Society,” “Kringle Kitchen,” and others, and will bake buckeyes, molasses crinkles, pizzelles, and other favorite favorites.
“I’m excited. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and a great way to start the holiday season,” said Laura Magone, founder of the Wedding Cookie Table Community. “We have some amazing cookies coming. All of our bakers have gone all out, and they have made magnificent cookies.”
Visitors can attend the event for a $5 admission fee, which will include viewing of the decorated tables, a Shop USA Bakeware event, and a vendor fair. A mixed dozen of cookies will also be available for purchase.
Magone said vendors will include C. Palmer Manufacturing Inc.which manufactures the only pizzelle irons made in the U.S., Grama Joans, which makes ladylock forms, and Sarris Candies, which will sell its peanut butter blossom cookie chocolate.
Flamingo Legs Food Truck will be on site.
Several of the cookie recipes will be included in a cookbook, which will be sold by pre-order at the event.
The Wedding Cookie Table Community group has grown to include more than 381,000 bakers worldwide since Magone launched the group a decade ago..
In 2019, the group established the Guinness World Record for largest wedding cookie table.
Cookie counters will be sworn in at 9:30 a.m. and will begin counting the cookies, and then teams will decorate their tables.
Visitors are asked to park in Lot 1, and the cookie exchange event will be held in Building 2.