We have all seen. Clusters of big, gourmet cookies, individually wrapped in shiny, colored cellophane, with bows and ribbons. They come in many forms and with different traits, toys or gift items attached to or in a basket or a type of vessel. They make a great gift idea and edible. After all, do not like cookies? Unfortunately, they can be very expensive gifts, especially when considering that cookies do not cost a lot of cooking.
Here isHow to make your own cookie bouquet to do at home without spending a fortune!
What you need:
* Sticks or wooden skewers - Make sure they are heat resistant. If you bake cookies are small, then even popsicle sticks work.
* Cookies - Find a delicious recipe, the fine was the largest biscuit cookies, your favorite gift recipients favorite will do.
* Container - This needs a sturdy container that is a bit 'of soil is heavy, especially if you planmore than a few large cookie contains. You can try adding some pebbles in the soil to ensure the container will not fall over if necessary. Some ideas for containers include a cup of coffee, a plastic or metal, a basket, a vase, a planter, jam or glass, glass bottle, a wooden box or a few toys, such as tea, porcelain served or ceramic.
* Cellophane - The glossy, color looks better, but getting the colored film you would be working at the supermarketa.
* Band - The curly kind works well for them. All the colors you want.
* Decoration - anything goes! What is appropriate for the occasion and the recipient do? Some ideas include: stuffed animals, small toys, candy, balloons, fake or real flowers, stickers or anything else saved on local crafts.
* Block of styrofoam or florists foam - you know that you bought the stereo in December last year? You have probably kept the box, only to find garage for a fewRepair, cleaning and polystyrene.
* Something to cover styrofoam or florists foam - you can have a large group of moss, plastic grass, tissue paper crumpled up or whatever you have on hand.
Instructions:
1. If the cookie dough on the baking sheet, press the dough down a bit 'to make it so it's not too flat to be used properly during baking and so that the stick can be distributed. Before you bake cookies, you have rods or wooden sticksone side of each cookie. Push almost the entire length of the cookie, not the other end. This is an important step, because if the cookie is too big and the key is not strong enough, it will simply fall apart and do not take the cookie, if you pick up. When large biscuits, probably does not fit more than 3 cookies with their sticks on a sheet.
2. Thoroughly after baking cookies with their sticks, cool the cookies, then wrap each with colorCellophane. A different color for each cookie would be ok, or see all the same color for the occasion. Tie each with some curly ribbon at the base where the stick comes out of the cookie. Tie very tightly so the cookies stay fresh on the stick. You can decorate each cookie with additional, larger ribbons or bows at this point. When using curly ribbon, do not forget to draw it!
3. Now cut your styrofoam or florist's foam to the size of the top of the container you have chosen.Then fit the foam so it is nice and tight and near the top of the container. Remember that you can do something serious in the bottom of the container so they do not tip on the site. small pebbles are suitable for this. Remember that the will of the foam at the bottom of the container and insert sticks.
4. Here comes the fun part, let's assemble the cookie bouquet! Take each of your cookies and stick them in the foam so that all the way through the foam and also on the road nearBottom of the container. You can use cookies in any way how to install, but most cookie bouquets have one cookie in the middle, which maintain higher than cookies, so that in mind. Decorate with additional ribbons, toys, candy, flowers, gifts, etc. Each element can be attached to the container with tape or extra sticks of the cookies or even a hot glue gun (if applicable).
5. Give your gift and watch the smiles! Be sure to give the bouquet as soon as possiblepossible after it is mounted, you do not go stale cookies!
Suggestions:
Make sure that cookies bake enough for your container, if biscuits small, it is possible that if you fill a large container. Cook more than enough. Surely your extras will not be wasted.
Bake for large and small cookies and use them both in the bouquet for a nice varied look like a traditional bouquet of flowers.
Other ideas:
Some cookies to use cutting decksCookies can make these fun and to decorate. Use your favorite cookie recipe sugar crop and cut into shapes appropriate for the occasion. Working for cutting cookies, you may have your cookie recipe sugar cookie twice to be nice and thick for the stick having to go through it. For this type of cookie, wooden skewers work best, chopsticks may be too thick. Then decorate the cookies with frosting. No need for colored cellophane with these cookies, use regular plastic wrap orCellophane transparent so that the beauty of your hand decorated cookies through.
Remember, your cookie bouquet does not need to look professional, it is the artisan touch that makes him a very special gift.
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