Christmas Tree Of Cookies

Name: Christmas Tree Of Cookies
Prep time: 1 min
Total time: 1 min
Ingredients: Your favorite roll-out cookie or shortbread dough in any flavor, whether chocolate, sugar, gingerbread, or some other snazzy incarnation, enough to make at least 36 cookies; 1/2 batch Basic Royal Icing; Optional embellishments: Confectioners' sugar, glitter sugar, shiny baubles and snowflakes; Toothpicks or slender wooden skewers, for when your outlining gets a little sloppy and needs to be erased; Cookie Cutters: Up to 6 different-sized 5-pointed stars; Pastry bag or a resealable plastic bag with the tip cut off, for piping icing

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Prep Time: 1 hours

Total: 1 hours

Servings: 1

Author : Harriet Hastings | Sarah Moore

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Your favorite roll-out cookie or shortbread dough in any flavor, whether chocolate, sugar, gingerbread, or some other snazzy incarnation, enough to make at least 36 cookies1/2 batch Basic Royal IcingOptional embellishments: Confectioners' sugar, glitter sugar, shiny baubles and snowflakesToothpicks or slender wooden skewers, for when your outlining gets a little sloppy and needs to be erasedCookie Cutters: Up to 6 different-sized 5-pointed starsPastry bag or a resealable plastic bag with the tip cut off, for piping icing

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Step 1

Roll out your cookie dough on a lightly floured work surface to the thickness specified in the recipe. Cut about 5 or 6 cookies in each star size—maybe a few more to allow for breakages and decorating goofs. Bake as directed. Let cool.

Step 2

Outline each star with white piping icing. If desired, dust the cookies with silver glitter sugar and add a silver bauble to each star point using white piping icing as glue. Let dry.

Step 3

Take a pretty plate and, starting with the largest stars, stack them on top of each other using white piping icing to “glue” each layer together and giving each additional star a quarter turn to make the helix shape. Let dry completely about halfway through so you have a stable platform on which to stack the smaller stars. It’s a good idea to make this tree close to where you’re going to eat it.