Christmas is this little Dinosaur’s favourite time of year – there are lots of social events to attend and plenty presents! When I talk about presents, is not just about receiving, but also about giving. I for one, love to make people happy (its my job), and I find that there is nothing better than the smile on one’s face when you give them a super present, one that truly comes from the heart.
A few weeks ago, mum went shopping and came home with a Christmas Cookie Tree kit from Big W. She had been looking at buying a set like this for ages but all the ones she had seen in online shops were very expensive. This one was ½ the price of the others she had found and she could not resist buying it.
Christmas Cookie Tree Kit from Big W (purchased December 2007). This kit contains six different sized star cookie cutters as well as a stand to slide the cookies onto so they do not fall off.
This Christmas Cookie Tree Kit comes with a basic cookie recipe. It is very yummy. Mummy made the cookies tree and left it for me to decorate. Cooking is hard for such a little dinosaur - the bowls and spoons are much larger than me!
I’m sure no one will notice if I have a little nibble!
Icing the cookie tree was good fun. The Christmas Cookie Tree Kit came with a recipe for royal icing. The icing is very yummy and sets nice and hard so that everything stays in place.
The cookie tree kit does not show a star on the top of the tree. It was mummy’s idea. “You can not have a tree without a star”, she said. I think it is a great idea. If you are the first person to take a cookie, you get two cookies because the star is glued to the first cookie in the tree!
Icing the tree is easy. Just add some food colouring to your icing mixture and pipe away. The picture on the Christmas Cookie Tree Kit shows icing applied so that it looks like icicles, but I wanted to make a tree that looks like the one we had in our lounge room last year. Instead of icing icicles, I made some icing tinsel. You have to be careful when making tinsel icing as the icing can break, but if you are careful, you can find a way down the tree so that your icing does not have to span large gaps.
Making tinsel out of icing is good fun. Be careful not to stretch it too far between branches because it may break.
Once you have added the first colour tinsel, make up another colour, and follow similar lines down the tree.
Adding the icing tinsel to your tree is just like adding real tinsel to a real tree. It looks awesome.
If you have some icing left over, you can make some presents using Jersey Caramels and/or Licorice Allsorts. Simply, trail some icing over the top and sides of your “presents” so that it looks like ribbon. At this point, you can use some of your left over icing to glue Mini M&Ms to the ends of the branches so that they look like Christmas tree lights.
Don’t forget to make some yellow icing and colour the star in.
Once you have the hang of what you are doing, make up a few more colours and add more tinsel to your tree; ribbon to your presents; and, Mini M&M Christmas tree lights to your tree.
When the icing on your presents has set, arrange them under the tree.
And there we have it, a Christmas Cookie
Tree by Dino! MMM yummy.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Love Dino xxx
Merry Christmas!
