O, Gingerbread Christmas Tree!
Photo and instructions courtesy of Andrea's Recipes
Ingredients
- gingerbread men dough for 10 stars or 2 recipes for 20 stars
- icing in yellow, green and white
- sprinkles and candy to decorate
Directions
- Prepare one or two batches of gingerbread dough and cut and bake 20 star cookies, 2 of each size, according to the recipe. Allow the cookies to cool completely. (TIP: Make a day or two ahead to spread the project out a bit and save time on assembly day.)
- Prepare three piping bags, two with #16 star tips and 1 with a round tip. Fill each with one color.
- Pipe a blob of icing (any color) in the middle of the foil covered cake round. Place the largest gingerbread star on top of the blob and gently press. Continue adding blobs of icing and stacking the stars, going from the largest to the smallest. Rotate the stars a little as you go so the points don’t overlap.
- For the top star, pipe some yellow icing on it and add a cinnamon candy if you wish, then stand it up on a blob of icing on top.
- Begin piping the green tufts all over the tree. We pipe two or three tufts on each branch/star point.
- Pipe white tufts for the snow.
- Add sprinkles for the decorations. If the icing has started drying already, you may need to put a dab of wet icing on the bottom of each to make them stick.
- Allow the tree to rest uncovered for an hour or so to make sure the icing hardens and becomes stiff.
