How to Tie Cookies to a Cardboard Wreath
A cookie wreath adds sweetness to your holiday décor. Tying cookies onto a wreath requires advanced planning before you bake them, but you will be able to hang the wreath instead of keeping it flat. The tied cookies also have the advantage of remaining edible because you did not use glue to attach them to the wreath backing. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Cookie dough
- Parchment paper
- Baking sheet
- 1/2-inch wooden dowel
- Hole punch
- Cardboard ring-shape wreath backing
- Red and green ribbon
Instructions
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Preheat the oven as directed for your cookie recipe. Place cookie dough rounds on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
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Cut a 1/2-inch wooden dowel into 1-inch lengths. Insert each length into the top of each cookie dough round near the top of the cookie. This creates a hole and holds it open during baking.
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Bake and cool the cookies as directed in your recipe. Remove the wooden dowel lengths from each cookie.
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Punch pairs of holes, 1/2 inch apart every 2 inches around the cardboard ring for the wreath.
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Cut red and green ribbon into 3-inch lengths.
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Insert one length of ribbon through the hole in the baked cookie. Hold the cookie on the front of the wreath ring and push the ribbon through the hole on the left of a pair of holes to the back of the cardboard and then push it to the front through the other hole.
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Tie this end of ribbon to the opposite end of the ribbon with a bow.
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Repeat tying the remaining cookies to the cardboard wreath until the entire wreath has been covered.
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Tips & Warnings
Save time baking and use packaged ring-shaped cookies.
Ice the cookies with red and green royal icing. Let the icing dry and harden before attaching the cookies to the wreath for more color.
References
- "Christmas Cooking For Dummies"; Dede Wilson, CCP; 2011
- "The Cookie Party Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Hosting a Cookie Exchange"; Robin L. Olson; 2010
- "Bake It! Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes: Cakes, Cookies, Bars, Pies, and More"; Editors of "Good Housekeeping"; 2010
- Photo Credit Brand X Pictures/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
