Easy-to-Make Homemade Goodies

Delicious homemade goodies for teachers, grandparents, and sitters -- and so easy, even your toddler can help.
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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.

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tietjen.stacy1 wrote:

For the pancake mix -- what is six 40 pancakes per batch? six 4" pancakes???

12/17/2011 02:14:49 PM Report Abuse
johannacampbel1 wrote:

Mix confectioners suagr with egg white powder and add 1 tbs water at a time until desired consistency is reached. This dries quickly and hard - it is called royal icing. keep it in the bowl covered with a damp paper towel or cloth.

12/1/2010 12:21:32 PM Report Abuse
johannacampbel1 wrote:

Seriously you people cannot figure this out?? 1/4 inch thickness - there was a typo. After you bake your cookies decorate them with icing and colored sugars or crushed candies. then stack them like the directions to make a star. Use common sense.

12/1/2010 12:19:33 PM Report Abuse
karen.patch.anderson wrote:

I'm trying to figure out the "roll out to 1/40 thickness"????

11/8/2010 05:37:44 PM Report Abuse
ALGrable wrote:

I was looking for all the steps too. I think step 2 must be sprinkling the cookies with crushed candy canes or mints.

11/7/2010 10:08:19 AM Report Abuse
sarah1471 wrote:

Where is step 2????? I bought the ingredients to make this and step 2 is missing!!!

12/17/2009 07:53:37 AM Report Abuse
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