Holidays, Snowy Cookie Tree

the Painted Apron

6 years ago

We got a surprise from Mother Nature on Friday

And we had a good old fashioned Snow Day

It was predicted and schools were closed and for once, many were home safe before the world turned white

The snowy trees were all the inspiration I needed to create a sweet snowy tree

With Christmas cookies from Trader Joe’s, sprinkles and buttercream icing, this was a quick project

I played with the arrangement of cookies before I started “gluing” them together

The colored frosted cookies are anchored to the plate with a dollop of icing and then more icing holds the cookies in place as they are layered and stacked

2 gingerbread men iced together are on top

Snowballs of icing grab sprinkles and snowflakes on the tree “boughs”

This is going to be a surprise for the littles today, when they come over to decorate gingerbread houses

They had so much fun last year, it has quickly become a tradition

The key to success was hot gluing the houses together before they got here so they could start decorating right away

Instead of the icing that came in the kits we used canned icing, much easier!

The houses were so much fun to have for decorations!

Do you think I should let them eat the cookie tree or save it for a decoration?

Snowy Cookie Tree

This dessert tree doubles as a table decoration!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword easy cookie tree, Holiday dessert and decoration, Snowy Cookie Tree

Ingredients

2-3 dozen cookies
homemade buttercream icing or canned icing
sprinkles
buttercream icing
1/2 stick 4 T unsalted butter, softened
2 cups confectioner’s sugar
2-4 T milk or cream
1 tsp almond emulsion or vanilla

Instructions

Arrange cookies in layers starting with the biggest layer on the bottom and gradually tapering to a small layer at the top.
Use dollops of icing to secure bottom layer of cookies to plate and then securing additional layers with more icing. Place small “snowballs” of icing on cookie tips and edges and sprinkle tree with decorations like sparkling sugar, snowflakes and colored sprinkles.
Wrap in plastic wrap and store at room temperature