A fabulous way to turn sugar cookies into gorgeous Christmas Tree gifts. They look fabulous, taste great, and are fun and easy to make. They are pretty time intensive, but the result is fabulous. I wrote this up on Dabbled as well.
These were inspired by Wedding Cake Cookies for wedding favors, which are blogged here. I credit my fabulously creative aunts for the idea!
These were inspired by Wedding Cake Cookies for wedding favors, which are blogged here. I credit my fabulously creative aunts for the idea!
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Cookie cutters in star shapes (at least 4 sizes from 1 in or so up)
Small spatula.
Materials:
Sugar cookie dough, with no leavening (ie baking soda or powder), something like this recipe.
Icing (buttercream or similar) that will dry hard.
Green food coloring
Storebought or homemade royal icing flowers. {Cheap, but more labor intensive: make your own ahead of time (google for instructions). More expensive but easier: purchase online or from a local cake supply company} - or - use your imagination to decorate!
Optional: Peanut Butter Cups, miniature.
Optional: acetate favor boxes for packaging.
Cookie cutters in star shapes (at least 4 sizes from 1 in or so up)
Small spatula.
Materials:
Sugar cookie dough, with no leavening (ie baking soda or powder), something like this recipe.
Icing (buttercream or similar) that will dry hard.
Green food coloring
Storebought or homemade royal icing flowers. {Cheap, but more labor intensive: make your own ahead of time (google for instructions). More expensive but easier: purchase online or from a local cake supply company} - or - use your imagination to decorate!
Optional: Peanut Butter Cups, miniature.
Optional: acetate favor boxes for packaging.
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I made ~10 of these to give out for Christmas this year! Great instructions, also super easy to customize and decorate to your liking!
I tinted the sugar cookie dough green, and baked the cookies. Watch your sugar cookies -- you don't want them to turn the traditional "golden" because then you'll lose color. I popped them in for 5-6 minutes each, cycling a bunch of trays because I had so much dough. The cookies ended up being pretty soft because they weren't in the oven for long.
To stick them together, I knew I had to use some sort of sweet. However, I tried making royal icing and it failed miserably. So I relied on good ol' marshmallow fondant (microwave some marshmallows, add confectioner's sugar until no longer sticky), rolled it out, and cut out shapes using the cookie cutters (since sugar cookies expand a little bit, the fondant was perfect). I also used a little bit of fondant to stick the Reese's cups to the cookies.
Finally, I used a yellow M&M for a star because it was what I had on hand. I'm sure if I scouted around I could find star-shaped candies which probably would've looked cuter, but overall they turned out great!
I use Royal icing for snow and add to ti[s of "tree" dripping off, then add mini m&ms for ornaments! Kids love it. Great Christmas day decoration and the kids (and adults) can eat it for dessert! Just have fun with it!
The cookies are really cool too.
I really like these 'personal sized ' trees.
I have a set of graduated snowflake cookie cutters. I'm going to try
it with those.
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