Easy-to-Make Homemade Goodies

Star Cookie Trees

You'll need star-shaped cookie cutters in different sizes for this pretty present. Your little one can help with icing and stacking.

• 1 pkg. (18 oz.) refrigerated sugar-cookie dough
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 box (16 oz.) confectioners' sugar
• 1 Tbs. egg-white powder
• 5 Tbs. water, divided
• Green food coloring
• Red nonpareils
• Red gumdrop candies

1. Heat oven to 350?F. Combine cookie dough with flour. Roll dough out to 1/40 thickness. To make 1 tree, cut 2 stars each from 4 different-size cookie cutters (we used 50, 40, 30, and 20 sizes). Transfer to a baking sheet, and bake 14 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool 1 minute, and transfer to wire rack. Cool completely. Repeat to make 2 more trees.
2. To stack, place a dollop of icing in center of each cookie, except those with gumdrops. Starting with largest, stack 2 of each size, alternating tips of stars. Continue stacking with the 3 smaller-size stars, finishing with gumdrop-topped star. Makes 3 star trees.