Christmas if certainly one of my favorite times of the year to make cookies! Pretty cookies can make such special gifts, and are always welcome at holiday parties! After making pretty pastel cookies for the Vintage Pastel Christmas party, I had fun making a set with more traditional colors. For some reason I found myself making lots of Christmas trees. I guess I wasn’t really paying attention when I was cutting the dough! Oh well, it gave me a good reason to play with a few different designs.
Here are some cute mittens, snowflakes, peppermints and lots of trees!
I made most of these for a friend who wanted some special favors for a dinner table she was hosting at a church ladies event. I made sets of three cookies to be packaged together and put some extra care into packaging them in a festive way.
I’ve posted some instructions on packing cookies in this way HERE and HERE.
Basically, you need some scrapbooking paper, cellophane cookie bags, and either double sided tape or a stapler. Then some ribbon to finish it off.
For these favors I wanted to add a colored paper behind the cookies, but I was worried about the butter in the cookies making the paper look oily. My solution was to put the background paper inside another small bag and then put that inside the cookie bag. (I used bags just like THESE
to put the paper in and used THESE
as the outer bag).
I’ve posted the sugar cookie recipe I use HERE.
And a nice tutorial to get you started with cookie decorating is HERE.
Happy Cookie Making!
Glory,
These are beautiful…can you tell me how you get such a great RED color? My reds always look pink.
Hi Glory,
WOW!! These are beautiful…Such exquisite decorated cookies. I am just at awe with all your work. You must have lots of fun working alone and with your 2 adorable precious little Princesses. Their photos are sooooo cute! Can't help but smile and adore! 🙂
Very pretty names, too!
Merry Christmas!!
clever! you make awesome cookies!
Thanks ladies for the sweet comments!
Jennifer- The cookies last a full week (even longer, but after a week they dry out a bit). So if you make them this weekend they'll still be good for Christmas. Happy Baking!
Your cookies look amazing! Can you please tell me how long these cookies last? I think I am going to give it a whirl this weekend and make these with my kids. Do you think they will last until Christmas? Thanks
Gorgeous as usual Glory!
Thats genius about putting the paper in a smaller bag. Ive always had the butter spots so I quit packaging them lol.
You always come up with the cutest ideas!
Where are you getting all this energy lately??? I need to know!
Oh my heavens… that is so clever and adorable!! I love it.