Well, when I started to get ready to make chocolate cupcakes I heard a familiar whine from the other side of the kitchen: “What about my Christmas Tree Cookies?” Oh dad, quit your whining and I’ll make your darn cookies. So, cupcakes were pushed to another day.
The Christmas Tree Cookie should be light green, taste like a kiss of almond, and be shaped by the cookie press my dad’s mom always used, or else it’s not right (note: approximately 98% of the flavor of the cookie is dependent on the shape of the cookie when it comes to Christmas Tree Cookies). A tough cookie to make especially since I don’t have the cookie press and I don’t have liquid food coloring.
BUT I worked my butt off on these cookies! I used powdered food coloring and achieved the hint-of-green coloring. I also hunched over the counter for an hour shaping each cookie like a mini-tree, by hand, and then decorated each with red and green sprinkles. (no wonder each batch after that looked like blobs and not trees!)
Any-hoo, they went over well and will just have to do for this Christmas. I’m told they taste perfect!
[Can you tell which trees my mom made? 🙂 ]
I’m sure walmart/target would have had some sort of cookie cutter business 🙂 These are super cute though.
Um yeah I have tree cookie cutters, believe me…it’s all about the cookie press (the one that looks like an extruder) that makes the perfect shape. And since only the one my Yianna has is the correct one, I might as well try my best to shape them by hand.
Your Mom made the trees that are more pointy. Not looking like arrow heads.