Cookie craze takes over holidays
These cookies are a wonderful treat to share as stories are told by the fire. Happy Holidays from the Hiller staff to you!
The holiday season is a time where many families get together and spread the cheerfulness of the season. A favorite activity during these festive months is making and decorating cookies. It is an activity that brings the whole family together and allows everyone to help out and make memories that will last a lifetime.
Decorating and baking cookies can be a confusing task, especially with so many tips and tricks trying to make it easier. While there are many different ways to decorate, they can be simplified for cookie decorating ease.
These first cookies are called Snowglobe cookies and can be made in just one hour. They can be both eaten and hung as a decoration.
These cookies can be a great treat or a great gift during the holiday season. They also show how sprinkles can be used to decorate cookies in different ways. Depending on the type of sprinkles, they can be baked into the cookies to give them extra flavor and create a nice pattern or use the sprinkles to take pictures of holiday symbols like a star.
This second cookie is one of the most reliable and is very hard to mess up. Chocolate chip cookies come in many shapes and sizes and are even decorated differently most of the time. This recipe is perfect for all of the decorating needs and is quite delectable.
One great way to decorate these types of cookies is to half dip them in chocolate. Melt any type of flavored or colored chocolate in a bowl and twist the cookie in it, making an awesome design on the cookies.
A third great cookie is the beloved sugar cookie. They get decorated as snowmen or little gingerbread men. No matter what they have as a design, they are always very delicious and this recipe shows one of the best ways to make them even more delectable than they already are.
These cookies are more often than not going to be frosted with friends or family. Some tricks to make the process easier are to use thicker icing in piping bags to be able to get fine lines and be more in control of where the icing goes on the cookies. It is also beneficial to leave iced cookies out overnight so that the icing can dry and it won’t get messed up.
Making cookies and decorating them is a great activity for the holidays and fun for everyone to do. These tips and tricks can give a new light to decorating and make it easier in the long run. Happy holidays and enjoy some of these recipes!
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