The great American Bake swap!

Ok so there is nothing American about it, apart from the original idea. I decided I wanted to host a sort of cookie swap. It sort of morphed into just a general all kinds of baking swap. The name came courtesy of Beebs.
I was the hostess and 5 of us took part. It was so much fun! The baking part turned out to be slightly more stressful/rushed than we all would have liked but we pulled it off and produced a staggering amount of food!

Here was my table all ready. My offerings of Shortbread and Brownies were just waiting to be united with the hoards of food about to come through my door!

We had Brownies, Shortbread, Cherry muffins, cherry and white chocolate fudgy traybake thingy, oatmeal and raisin cookies, spicy snowflakes, chocolate peanut butter hearts, banana loaf, a mahooooooosive chocolate fudge cake and a raspberry mascarpone cheesecake. All in ridiculously large quantities!

Thank goodness there was a boy or two around to help munch some of the goodies!

Here is one of the girlies , I love Lor Lor still pouring the wine while posing for the pic LOL

Sorry I have none with all of us in it, I should have made Murray work for his supper by being photographer for the night! ;) Alas, we were far too busy gossiping , laughing and having fun, I remembered far too late!

 My sister had already headed home (taking unborn baby hughes home to bed) and we were all a little green around the gills because we had eaten too much!  We were all fighting at the end about who had to take the most LOL no one could face filling their tins!

We have most definitely decided it has to be annual affair. Although there was murmurings of it becoming a weekly/monthly/any excuse we can think of affair!

Thanks girls xx