I would LOVE to see pictures! Of the cookies, and your decorations 🙂 Send them to me at livforcakeblog@gmail.com. Safe travels and happy holidays to you and your family!

I know right?? What is up with the unequal color/flavour amounts?? Glad you have the candies to use them though 🙂

I’ll update you on the cookies. We’re on our way to the vacation home now. I failed miserably with the one tree plan. I blame these cookies and Amazon though. I ordered those cookie cutters like Nov28/29. They just showed up on Monday (Dec14). That left me with a solid two weeks and I put up another tree, albeit small one- it fit inside of a sleigh and added it to my foyer area. I had two others flanking my front door but removed after one kept falling over. Looking forward to decorating when I get to the vacation home and super excited to decorate the cookies and hang them on the trees I bought to use as centerpiece
Too bad I can’t post pics here.

Good thing I came back before attempting because I was thinking to use the sanding sugar. I did also crush the jolly ranchers so I have those on hand. Speaking of which, I thought I’d have 5solid flavors/colors…hmmm…there were more cherry and blue raspberry in each bag than any other. I had two grapes in one and one in another and the watermelon I had ONE in between the two bags! Good thing the color was similar to the cherry and I wasn’t in it for flavor or I would have been mad as a hornet. My hard candy eating friends had a good laugh at my expense- I’d never purchased jolly ranchers before so I was none the wiser that this is the norm in these packs.

Thanks so much for the tips Shana! I will remove the sanding sugar suggestion from my post. Surprised it didn’t melt! Love the idea of the swirl effect. That would look so pretty!

14 trees!? Your place must be a winter wonderland. I bet it feels quite different with just the one tree this year! Let me know how the cookies turn out 🙂

Well here we are some 10monkey years into the COVID-19 and the holiday season. Let it be known that I never did try the cookies but am determined to now that it’s really Christmas.
Last year I had about 14 trees in my house and told my family that this year I would only put one in the house and we’d go away…then Covid!
These folks are holding me to the one tree which I just got done putting up and I’m feeling cheated. So here I am, the glutton for punishment, thinking let me work on my cookies.
I just ordered my cookie cutters… and the saga continues…

Hi Liz! Thanks so much for the update. A 1/8th tsp is actually a much better idea. I don’t think I had one at the time! I would use that going forward too I think. So glad you liked them 🙂

They turned out great! I ended up using a little 1/8th teaspoon to fill the spaces, and then a small paint brush to clean the cookies up. Apparently I am not steady enough to use the knife and pastry brush suggested. Just for those who were wondering about how many cookies this made, I got more than the recipe says but rolled them very thin. Also the cookie cutters I used were not very big.