Cookie Ornaments for Your Christmas Tree

I’ve always wanted to go into a meadow and build a snowman because it’s #34 on my bucket list. Doesn’t that seem cool to think about going into a meadow to make a snowman to pretend he’s Parson Brown? Since I don’t have enough snow to build Mr. Brown, I’ll make some cookie ornaments and decorate a snowman Christmas tree instead.

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Cookie Ornaments for Your Christmas Tree

I enjoyed this project so much that I am going to make cookie ornaments and decorate a tree every year. Isn’t that how traditions are made? Next year I’ll make Santa cookie ornaments for a kitchen tree and I’m happy I have a plan because that’s half the fun of being ready for Christmas.

Supplies for Scarf Cookie Ornaments:
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Light Blue 15 Second Icing
Dark Blue 15 Second Icing
Sugar Cookie Recipe
Royal Icing Recipe– I hand-cut this cookie ornaments because I wanted a cookie that was a little larger than the cutter I have. I hate to hand-cut, but sometimes I have to! If you want any of these patterns, click here. For instructions on how to hand cut click here.  Feel free to make them as big or small as you want.

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  • Outline the scarf with the light blue.

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  • Flood every other section with the light blue and let dry for about 30 minutes.

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  • Then, flood the remaining sections with the darker blue and let dry for about 30 minutes.

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  • Then, make light blue squiggly lines on the blue section and dark squiggly lines on the dark blue sections. Now it looks more like a real scarf.

Supplies for the Hat Cookie Ornaments:
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Black 15 Second Icing
Blue 15 Second Icing
Green Thick Icing
Red Thick Icing

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  1. Outline the top of the hat and the brim with black royal icing because most snowmen have a black hat.
  2. Then, flood them and let dry overnight.
  3. Flood the band with the blue icing and let it dry for at least a couple of hours.
  4. Then, with the thick green icing, make 3 holy leaves. Sweet Sugar Belle just make a video on how here.
  5. Next, add the red berries.

Now if you look at these cookie ornaments, you will see one big problem! They don’t have holes for the string! Hahahaha. That is not a mistake. I wanted to try something new.

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Hot glue is amazing and I LOVE IT! Just look at how much my poor gun has been abused! It is at least 15 years old and still going strong.

I hot glued the back of my cookies and added strips of fabric I ripped up. I wanted the country look and it held up nicely. This tree was outside for 3 weeks on my covered front porch. I was worried I would look out one morning and see a bear or raccoon feasting on it, but it made it through the season. Not one ornament fell or got eaten by something wild. SUCCESS!

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See! The fabric makes a nice hanger because it’s strong enough to hold the cookie in place.

Anyway, let’s wrap this up because I know you have cookies to make or presents to wrap!

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If you want to make the hat as the tree topper you can learn how to do that here.

I hope we get snow this year, but if not, I think this tree is charming and magical enough to tide me over until I can build a snowman in the meadow.

More Winter Cookies:
Gingerbread Cookies
Simple Colorful Snowflake Cookies
My Holiday Helpers
I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas Cookies

Merry Christmas!

Lisa