How To Host A Vacation Cookie Decorating Party

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Is it fifty-fifty the vacation flavor if yous aren't baking cookies?

Nothing says wintertime similar the aroma of freshly baked cookies wafting through the kitchen together with into the office, together with having Adam run out of the percentage bespeak me for a warm cookie to nibble on.

Since nosotros alive inward Phoenix together with nosotros practise non receive got some of the vacation together with wintertime traditions nosotros had equally kids, Adam together with I assay our best to create our ain traditions alongside our household unit of measurement to convey joy into our lives during this fourth dimension of year! Having friends over to decorate cookies spell nosotros hear to vacation music together with potable hot chocolate has move 1 of our newer traditions, together with today I am sharing a few substitution recipes to assistance yous host a vacation cookie decorating political party of your ain equally good equally some essential items to convey your vacation tabular array to life!

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The Glade® Tree Lighting Wonder™ jounce candle is the perfect candle for your cookie party. It's non a sweetness fragrance, thence it does non overpower the room when it volition already aroma sweetness from all of the cookies together with sweets on your table. It's fragrance reminds me of the gigantic, beautiful spruce tree nosotros had inward our front end yard inward my childhood home. I receive got thence many memories looking out the window watching the snowfall laid out to fall, together with I would speedily clothing myself inward my snowpants together with mittens together with run out to the tree together with milk shiver the fresh snowfall off of the branches together with allow it autumn on my face. The pino wood fragrance from the Glade® Tree Lighting Wonder™ jounce candle totally takes me dorsum to that retention equally a kid together with that is why I honey having that fragrance around my dwelling theatre inward the wintertime when the holidays curl around!

Other than playing inward the freshly fallen snow, of my other favorite things virtually the holidays equally a kid was decorating cookies! My grammy used to bake saccharide cookies for our household unit of measurement together with it was ever a process to move over to her theatre together with receive got them in that location since my parents did non bake alongside me. Baking together with decorating alongside my grammy was ever a wonderful tradition, together with over the years nosotros stopped doing it until I was inward college together with visited alongside my younger cousins. One item wintertime interruption when I came dwelling theatre together with went to my grammy's house, I brought cookies alongside me together with sat alongside my niggling cousins together with nosotros decorated cookies together for hours! It was thence much fun together with I recall that fondly!

I assay to send the retention of my traditions from my childhood into my adult life, together with I receive got constitute joy inward having a vacation cookie decorating political party alongside my girlfriends! I promise that yous bask these tutorials to assistance yous convey some joy into your dwelling theatre when yous host a cookie decorating political party of your own!

Every vacation cookie decorating political party needs the perfect cookie trifecta--for me, that includes snickerdoodles, peanut butter, together with of course of teaching saccharide cookies!

Holiday Snickerdoodles

Cookie Ingredients:

2 3/4 cups of unbleached cake flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
2 teaspoons of cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon of bounding main salt
1 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 loving cup of vegetable shortening
1 loving cup of baker's saccharide (granulated sugar, fine)
1/2 loving cup of low-cal brownish sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Cinnamon Sugar Dusting Ingredients:

1/2 loving cup of baker's saccharide (granulated sugar, fine)
2 teaspoons of Earth cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (F).
In a medium bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, together with cream of tartar.
In a large bowl, cream the butter, vegetable shortening, brownish sugar, together with the baker's saccharide until it is light, creamy, together with whipped. If yous are doing this yesteryear hand, it may accept upward to 10 minutes. I recommend using a mixer--if using either a mitt mixer or freestanding mixer, this volition accept a few minutes (around 3-4 minutes).
Add inward the eggs together with vanilla extract together with mix well.
Pour the dry out ingredients into the large bowl together with mix until the dough comes together (once yous meet the flour/white pulverization disappear, thence yous know it is done). You practise non wish to over-mix the dough, since the to a greater extent than yous mix it the tougher your cookies volition be!
Line a baking sheet alongside parchment paper.
Grab a shallow bowl together with create the cinnamon saccharide dusting yesteryear combining 1/2 loving cup of baker's saccharide together with 2 teaspoons of Earth cinnamon. Stir the saccharide together with cinnamon together until they are blended.
Use either a 1-2 inch cookie scoop or an H2O ice cream scoop, together with scoop out a ball of cookie dough. Toss the cookie dough ball into the cinnamon saccharide dusting bowl, together with curl the ball around inward it thence that cinnamon saccharide covers the ball.
Use the scoop or some other spoon to transfer the cookie dough from the bowl onto the parchment paper. Place the cookie dough balls virtually 2-3 inches apart (they volition spread). Repeat this procedure until your baking sheet is full.
Bake the cookies inward the oven on the medium rack at 350 degrees (F) for 8-10 minutes. You practise non wish to terminate these cookies! Check the cookies at around 8 minutes, together with if they are browned on the edges together with if yous gently identify your fingertip inward the middle of the cookie together with it does non move out an indent they are done together with demand to endure taken out of the oven. Allow the cookies to cool, untouched, on the baking sheet for five minutes.
While the cookies are cooling, sprinkle a small-scale amount of the cinnamons saccharide dusting on transcend of the cookies spell they are withal warm.
Once the cookies receive got hardened together with they are cool to the touch, yous tin transfer them from the baking sheet to a cooling rack or a plate. Repeat this procedure until you've baked all of your cookies! Enjoy!

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour, unbleached
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of bounding main salt
1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature
1 loving cup of creamy peanut butter
3/4 loving cup of baker's saccharide (granulated sugar, fine)
3/4 loving cup of low-cal brownish sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (F).
In a medium bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, together with salt.
In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter, brownish sugar, together with the baker's saccharide until it is light, creamy, together with whipped. If yous are doing this yesteryear hand, it may accept upward to 10 minutes. I recommend using a mixer--if using either a mitt mixer or freestanding mixer, this volition accept a few minutes (around 3-4 minutes).
Add inward the egg together with vanilla extract together with mix well.
Pour the dry out ingredients into the large bowl together with mix until the dough comes together (once yous meet the flour/white pulverization disappear, thence yous know it is done). You practise non wish to over-mix the dough, since the to a greater extent than yous mix it the tougher your cookies volition be!
Line a baking sheet alongside parchment paper.
Use either a 1-2 inch cookie scoop or an H2O ice cream scoop, together with scoop out a ball of cookie dough together with identify it onto the parchment paper. Place the cookie dough balls virtually 2 inches apart (they volition spread a niggling bit, but non equally much equally the snickerdoodles would). Repeat this procedure until your baking sheet is full.
Use a fork to brand crisscross marks along the transcend of the cookie (this volition flatten the cookie a bit).
Bake the cookies inward the oven on the medium rack at 350 degrees (F) for 8-10 minutes. You practise non wish to terminate these cookies! Check the cookies at around 8 minutes, together with if they are browned on the edges together with if yous gently identify your fingertip inward the middle of the cookie together with it does non move out an indent they are done together with demand to endure taken out of the oven. Allow the cookies to cool, untouched, on the baking sheet for five minutes.
Serve warm together with bask alongside a loving cup of milk, or bask them cooled together with decorate them alongside your favorite vacation sprinkles!

Classic Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour, unbleached
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of bounding main salt
1 teaspoon of cornstarch
1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature
1 loving cup of baker's saccharide (granulated sugar, fine)
1 egg
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Directions:

In a medium bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, bounding main salt, together with cornstarch.
In a large bowl, cream the butter together with the baker's saccharide until it is light, creamy, together with whipped. If yous are doing this yesteryear hand, it may accept upward to 10 minutes. I recommend using a mixer--if using either a mitt mixer or freestanding mixer, this volition accept a few minutes (around 3-4 minutes).
Add inward the egg together with vanilla extract together with mix well.
Pour the dry out ingredients into the large bowl together with mix until the dough comes together (once yous meet the flour/white pulverization disappear, thence yous know it is done). You practise non wish to over-mix the dough, since the to a greater extent than yous mix it the tougher your cookies volition endure 1 time they are baked.
Clear a large department on the tabular array or counter, together with laid upward 2 pieces of parchment paper that are the same size (about the size of your baking sheet).
Put 1 slice of parchment paper on the apartment surface, together with thence scoop the dough onto the pump of the parchment paper. Work the dough gently alongside your hands thence that it forms into a ball-like shape.
Cover the dough alongside the 2nd slice of parchment paper, together with thence slightly flatten the dough alongside your hands spell squishing the ii pieces of parchment paper together.
Use a rolling pivot over the transcend of the parchment paper to flatten together with spread the cookie dough thence that it is virtually 1/2 inch (you practise non wish to flatten it likewise much, since the flatter your cookies are, the to a greater extent than probable they volition brownish or fifty-fifty terminate inward the oven when yous bake them).
Chill the rolled dough inward the parchment paper inward the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour, or inward the freezer for 20-30 minutes if yous are inward a hurry. The goal is to learn the dough to harden thence that it tin endure easily worked alongside a cookie cutter.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees (F).
Line a cookie sheet alongside a slice of parchment paper.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator, together with exercise a cookie cutter (I prefer tree-shaped for the holidays together with decorate mine alongside ornaments) to cutting out cookie dough into your desired saccharide cookie shape.
Place the cookies on the baking sheet virtually 2 inches apart. Repeat this procedure until your cookie sheet is full.
Bake the cookies inward the oven on the medium rack at 325 degrees (F) for 7-9 minutes. You volition wish to ticker these cookies similar a hawk--don't endure tempted to multitask spell yous bake these equally saccharide cookies tin endure fickle (even a few seconds likewise long inward the oven together with they volition laid out brown).
Once the edges receive got really lightly browned, withdraw the cookies from the oven together with allow them to proceed to bake for some other infinitesimal or thence on the hot baking sheet. Do non assay to motion the cookies until they are hardened, together with thence yous tin motion them to a cooling rack or onto a plate thence yous tin decorate them.
Once they are completely cool, yous tin decorate them to your heart's desire! I honey using vacation icing, sprinkles, together with decorative candies to decorate our saccharide cookies.

DIY Cookie Pennant Banner

No cookie decorating political party is consummate without a themed, homemade centerpiece that brings the tabular array together into a festive together with delicious tablescape! This golden lettered 'COOKIES' pennant banner is thence uncomplicated to make, but it definitely makes a arguing for your political party table!

For this DIY political party decor, I used vii carve upward canvas/burlap pennants, arts and crafts glue, twine, golden glitter letters, newspaper, together with scissors.

Lay out some quondam paper on a apartment surface to preclude mucilage and/or glitter from getting all over the place. Place the pennants across the surface together with business them upward thence that they are fifty-fifty together with inward a direct line.

Starting at 1 destination together with working your means across, depict a business of arts and crafts mucilage across the pennants where yous wish the twine to sit down (I recommend gluing the twine at the top, but non the really transcend of the pennants).

Give the mucilage a few seconds to learn tacky spell yous cutting the twine to length (should endure at to the lowest degree equally long equally all of the pennants addition some other six inches on the ends, thence yous receive got room to hang it where yous want). Press the twine into the business of mucilage firmly, together with thence allow the mucilage fourth dimension to laid together with harden alongside the twine attached (at to the lowest degree 15-20 minutes, since yous volition endure hanging it together with yous don't wish to lose a struggle alongside gravity afterward on).

Once the mucilage is no longer tacky or gummy to the touch, flip the banner around thence that the glue/twine is on the back.

Use a small-scale amount of the same arts and crafts mucilage to attach your letters to the front end of the pennants. I spelled out the give-and-take "COOKIES," but yous tin also select some other festive give-and-take for your political party together with exercise 1 carve upward pennant for each missive of the alphabet (or 2 letters per pennant depending on how long yous wish your give-and-take or phrase to be).

Allow at to the lowest degree some other 15-20 minutes to allow the mucilage harden together with completely dry). Once the letters practise non budge when yous acquit upon them they are ready to endure hung, together with yous tin decorate alongside this pennant banner for your party!

More Ideas for Your Holiday Cookie Decorating Party

-have enough of unlike types of cookie decorations, frosting, icing, together with candies on the tabular array for everyone to decorate their cookies with

-serve hot cocoa and/or receive got a hot cocoa bar alongside mini marshmallows, cookie stir sticks, together with receive got them dunk a saccharide cookie inward their cocoa

-bake cookies equally a grouping inward add-on to decorating them (and concern human relationship for the fourth dimension it volition accept for the cookies to cool)

-have a small-scale arts and crafts projection for everyone to practise spell the cookies are cooling earlier decorating

-play your favorite vacation music together with receive got a karaoke machine

-have 1 of your favorite vacation movies on together with playing inward the background during the party

-send everyone dwelling theatre alongside a stocking total of cookie decorating tools equally a political party gift

-send your guests dwelling theatre alongside a gift handbasket alongside all their vacation favorites similar comfy slippers, an ugly festive sweater, together with fifty-fifty your favorite Glade® Holiday Limited Edition Fragrances

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