How to Host a Pie Swap Party with Evite 🥧
The sweetest way to celebrate Friendsgiving!
If you’re looking for a fun and creative way to celebrate the holidays with friends, let me introduce you to one of my favorite traditions: a Pie Swap Party! 🥧
Think cookie exchange, but with pies! Everyone brings a homemade or store-bought pie, and everyone goes home with a delicious assortment of slices to enjoy. It’s such a sweet way to bring everyone together, try new recipes, and celebrate the season without having to do all the baking yourself.
And the best part? With Evite, planning and inviting everyone is just as easy as pie!
1. Send Out Your Invitations with Evite
First things first, let’s get everyone invited! I love using Evite for holiday gatherings because they have so many adorable invitation designs, and the website makes organizing a party incredibly simple.
Choose a festive Thanksgiving or fall-themed invitation, add your party details, and send it off to your friends. The exact invitation is used is the “PIE POTLUCK” Free Invitation.
See here: http://evite.com/jessiejanedaye
When creating your invitation, make sure to include a little note explaining how the pie swap works. Ask each guest to bring one pie, either homemade or from their favorite bakery, along with a serving utensil.
My tip: Encourage guests to share which pie they’re bringing when they RSVP so you don’t end up with 10 pumpkin pies.
2. Set Up a Beautiful Pie Display
You know I love a good themed tablescape, and a pie swap is the perfect excuse to get creative.
The Table: Gather old books or wooden boards and pretty serving platters to create different heights and textures across your table.
The Decor: Add seasonal touches like mini pumpkins, autumn foliage, fresh flowers, and cozy linens.
I brushed my leaves with Mod Podge so they can stay crisp and I can reuse them year after year. I hung them with clear filament string.
For the book garland, I stapled book pages together and hung them with push pins. Now you have two options for the book garland, either use an amazing book that has meaning and holds purpose and use the garland year after year or use a terrible book that you would love to see cut up 🙂 I went to Good Will and purchased the worst book I could find. You will see in the picture above which book I used.
- Open your book and fold it down until you flatten the spine. Use your an X-acto Knife to slice down the book separating the pages. They should come right off.
- Fold each book page in half and staple it together in the middle. Then add another folded and stapled paper to that paper and staple them together. You should have 100 pairs of two book pages stapled together. Insert one pair of book pages into the other pair and staple this time on both sides of the pair. You’re going to keep doing this until you have a chain.
Pie Cards: I love using little handwritten cards to label each pie. Include the name of the pie and who brought it. It’s a cute personal touch and helps everyone remember their favorites.
3. Serve Food and Let Everyone Taste the Pies
Before the swapping begins, have a Friendsgiving dinner or even a little pie-tasting party. Slice each pie into smaller portions so everyone can sample a few different flavors. Set out dessert plates, forks, napkins, and whipped cream. You could even make it a friendly competition with categories like Best Presentation, Most Creative Flavor, and Crowd Favorite. It’s just a fun way to get everyone involved, especially when someone shows up with a pie you’ve never tried before.
4. Time for the Pie Swap!
I provided white bakery boxes so guests could pack up an assortment of pie slices to take home. I also had parchment squares to place in between the slices. I love adding a little ribbon or a festive sticker to each box. It’s just a small detail and makes everyone’s pie collection feel like a special little holiday gift.
Tip: Have a few extra pies on hand to make sure everyone leaves with plenty of treats.
