Ingredients of Christmas Cookie Decoration '08
- It's of batch Cookie cutter cookie dough (cocoa).
- Prepare of Icing:.
- It's of Powdered Sugar.
- It's of drops Lemon Juice.
- Prepare of Water.
- Prepare of Mini cream puffs (from the dollar store).
- You need of Snacks for decoration (with showy colors).
Christmas Cookie Decoration '08 step by step
- Prepare the cookie dough. It needs to be put in the freezer, so you need to prepare it first..
- Cut out the cookie shapes. Roll out the dough to 5 mm thick..
- Cut out 6 pointed stars in the sizes of 16 cm, 11 cm, 6 cm, and 4 cm, making a total of 4 stars..
- From the same batter, cut out a 6 cm diameter circle to use for the tree trunk..
- Place the cut batter between two sheets of saran wrap and freeze. Freezing prevents the dough from crumbling during baking..
- In an oven preheated to 160°C, bake for roughly 15 minutes. Cool completely..
- Make the icing. Mix the lemon juice and the water into the powdered sugar. The icing becomes watery very fast, so add it drop by drop and adjust accordingly..
- Pour the icing into a piping bag to use as an adhesive to stick the tree together. From the bottom, 2 circles -->star-->mini cream puffs-->star, etc..
- This recipe makes a lot of icing, but if there's not enough icing, it becomes hard to squeeze out of the bag. If you want to decrease the amount, do so appropriately..
- I shifted the points of the stars while layering. As you can see in the picture, I used the extra icing for decorating..
- If you use 2 batches of cookie dough, you can make this much. Using a lot of colorful snacks from the supermarket makes it look very nice..
- This year, I changed the design of the train, but refer tofor the instructions..
- This is a close-up of the ornaments. They're held by twirling wire. I made the holes in the cookies when I cut the shapes with a straw..
- On Christmas Day, I used the cookie tree as a cake topper..
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