And cookie ornaments are a lot of fun for kids, in all sorts of Christmas shapes such as gingerbread men, stars, Santa, reindeer, baubles, etc. Use the garden or natural items from the outdoors for ornaments.
Wearing a glittery gold dress that screamed "holiday party!", Mrs. O welcomed a crowd of festively-dressed kids for cookie decorating, ornament making... and Bo-petting.
Peter Kump's New York Cooking School, 50 West 23rd Street, has a class on making cookie tree ornaments on Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., $75, and a class in baking freezable holiday cakes on Dec. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., $95.
I blindly recited the lines and prayers my teacher told me, and was captivated by cookies, snowmen, ornaments, and gifts galore.
While Time and National Geographic have been putting their names on books and videos for years, and Martha Stewart has sold her copper cookie cutters and tree ornaments in her magazine almost since it began, there is a new momentum, and a new direction, to marketing goods branded with a publication's name.
The biggest, with more than 120 stalls of ornaments, cookies and doodads, is in the main train station, presided over by a tree 50 feet tall, decorated with some 5,000 Swarovski crystal ornaments.
There are Hanukkah greeting cards, cookie cutters, and even tree ornaments shaped like the three symbols - Stars of David, menorahs and dreidels - that scream "Hanukkah!" amid a sea of holiday merchandise adorned with Christmas trees and Santas.
Use a variety of different shaped cookie cutters to make different ornaments.
Arrange the ornaments on a cookie tray or other solid surface; Allow them to dry on the tray for a couple of days.
Carefully push the ornament out of the cookie cutter.
Consider using a holiday-themed cookie cutter, like a gingerbread man or a reindeer, for ornaments created during the holiday season.
