These super easy decorative diy decorative gingerbread add warmth and sadness to your tree. In addition, it is basically every dream for kids – definitely the favorite blog of the Max of the year!
I really love the idea of anything homemade on the tree, but it has a specific soft spot for edible ornaments. For the last 4+ years I have decided to add mellow cookies/woman (girls wearing pants) cookies to ours, and no one was happier than Max!
It has been converted into personal snack tree lol! A few bites here and there they have appeared every morning and honestly nothing makes me smile. Someone had a great idea to put some of the half ate ornaments from the tree and keep it as a memory for him under the road. It will be a nice reminder for him when he is older as a memory of our Christmas.
Adding cookies to the tree is actually something I started doing with cookies when I was younger. As a young teenager I will stay home while my parents went to Christmas parties and bake cookies, make homemade ornaments and decorate the tree. There is something really wonderful and nostalgic for me to repeat the modified versions of some of my traditions as a child. Suddenly I am 13 again, baking a storm, while Alan Jackson’s Christmas album plays repeatedly.
How to make a gingerbread biscuit ornament
Making an ornament from a cookie is really simple. All you need is a straw (plastic or metal works better), a cookie cutter and of course some biscuit dough!
Step 1: Make the dough and cut the shapes
Make the dough (recipe below), bake and roll the dough into a slightly floured surface into 1/8 “thick.
Step 2: Use a plastic straw to cut a hole for the string
A plastic straw works better than a straw paper, but use what you have. Cut a small hole using the straw on top of your ornaments. Bake cookies according to the recipe and cool completely.
Step 3: Connect ribbons
Using the thin ribbon or fatigue thread about 12 “, connect it once to the base of the biscuit, work your way to the ribbon or string about 3” and attach a bow. Cut the edges if needed and hang on the tree!
More ideas gingerbread
Feeling extra sly this year you can undergo spices in it for DIY Popcorn String as garland and dried orange slices. It’s fun and you can do it with kids! You can also undergo the total volume of spices in this recipe for DIY Gingerbread Spice (which doubles as an adorable gift idea). If cookies are your thing, check these cute cakes cut off gingerbread (uses a different recipe for my mom that is darker, but you can use this recipe to make them). And I’m a sucker for this upside -down pear cake or these gingerbread knives!
This gingerbread recipe was adapted by the unique Anna Olson. It has a lighter color than some other recipes, which looks better on the tree!
Decorative gingerbread
Gingerbread ornaments
These decorative DIY decorative gingerbread is the cutest thing to give the tree this year and just do with the kids this holiday! In addition, you can do them in homes for the most cutest table.
Ingredients
-
1/2
cup
butter -
3/4
cup
Packed dark brown sugar -
1/2
cup
fancy molasses -
2
eggs -
3 1/2
cups
Generally flour -
1
tablespoon
ginger -
1
tablespoon
cinnamon -
1
teaspoon
All the spices -
1/2
teaspoon
baking powder -
1/2
teaspoon
baking soda -
1/4
teaspoon
salt
Instructions
In a large bowl, whisk the butter, brown sugar and molasses to the fluffy. Add the eggs, beating well after each addition.
In a separate middle cup, sift flour, ginger, cinnamon, all spices, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix to combine. Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix to combine (I start using a spoon or my mixer and then finish with my hands).
Divide the dough into 2 balls, wrap tightly into a plastic wrapper, form on a thick disk (easier to roll) and cool for 2 hours or overnight.
Preheat the oven to 350 f and the two baking sheets with parchment paper (you can bake in lots if you only have one baking sheet).
Pull each ball in the dough on a slightly floured clean surface up to about 1/8 “thick. Using a cookie or” home “pattern, cut the cookies and use a metal spatula to lift each biscuit on the baking sheet, leaving about 1/2”. Repeat with the rest of the dough. You can repeat scraps once (it becomes very dry after that in my experience).
Using a plastic straw, cut a hole on top of the head (or near the top of any shape you use). Repeat with the rest of the cookies.
Bake the cookies until they are just golden brown, about 12-15 minutes and remove from the oven. Cool on cooling grill.
Cut a ribbon or piece of string 10-12 “long and mix it through the hole in half of the road. Show it once at the base of the cookie, climb the string or ribbon about 3” and attach a bow to the top. Hang on the tree!
