How to Take Cookies to a Holiday Party
No holiday party is complete without festive holiday cookies, oozing with color and sugary sweetness. Wrap your cookies up with shiny paper and present them as a special holiday gift.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Gift Ribbons
- Tissue Paper
- Holiday Cookbooks
- Cellophane Gift Wrap
- Gift Bags
- Gift Bows
- Tins
- Wrapping Paper
- Butterscotch Flavored Morsels
- Confectioners' Sugar
- Food Coloring
- Gumdrops
- Icing
- Sugar Cookie Dough
- Cookie Sheets
- Cooling Racks
- Holiday Cookie Cutters
- Cooking Magazines
- Cookie sheets
- Tissue paper
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Focus on baking old favorites that remind everyone of the holidays. Gingerbread and sugar cookies are quintessential holiday cookie favorites.
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Use festive holiday cookie cutters to create entertaining shapes. Many cookie cutter sets include Christmas trees, stars, Santa, reindeer and other holiday shapes.
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Be creative when decorating. Use colored icings, silver balls, cinnamon dots, chocolate confetti and colored sprinkles.
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Bake cookies one or two days before the party to ensure enough time for cooling, decorating and packaging.
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Place cookies on a platter covered with colorful doilies, or in a decorative holiday-themed tin.
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Finish off the cookie presentation with a shiny bow or a hand-tied ribbon.
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Tips & Warnings
Bring along a quart of milk or eggnog for a cute, synergistic accompaniment.
If you don't have time to bake, purchase tubes of pre-made cookie dough. Just slice, bake and decorate!
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Comments
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Jun 30, 2006
Every Christmas our Bunco group has a cookie swap. I wrap each batch of cookies in the see through Christmas bags and tie with curly ribbon, then attach the recipe index card to the bottom to make bag stand up. Each person just picks up a bag and she's ready to go. -
Jun 30, 2006
Every Christmas our Bunco group has a cookie swap. I wrap each batch of cookies in the see through Christmas bags and tie with curly ribbon, then attach the recipe index card to the bottom to make bag stand up. Each person just picks up a bag and she's ready to go.
