cute, mini christmas candy cookies - the decorated cookie

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Christmas candy cookies

Mini Christmas candy cookies are handy for packaging in little jars for a homemade holiday gift idea. You can find these cute li’l bite-size Christmas cookie set here, and I love cute li’l bite-size versions of things.

So I pulled the cute li’l gingerbread man and the cute li’l candy cane cutters and made some candy, cookie style. Mini Christmas candy cookies.

If you like these Christmas cookies, be sure to check out these snowman and tree cookies. Or decorate wreaths and trees with just dots of icing.

Package them in little cellophane bags with ribbon.

Or how about mason jars?

Mini Christmas candy cookies are handy for packaging in little jars

what you’ll need:*

dough

icing

mini cutters

(gingerbread man, candy cane, 1 1/4 inch circle and a 1 1/4 inch oval)

Americolor soft gel pastes

(Red, Bright White, Chocolate Brown, Sky Blue, Leaf Green, Electric Green and Electric Pink)

white sanding sugar or fine sprinkles

disposable decorating bags

couplers

decorating tips

(sizes “2,” “3” and “4”)

rubber bands

packaging

(bags, boxes, mason jars…)

Find the cookie dough here and royal icing here.

Find sprinkles, cutters, bags, couplers and tips in the craft store.

Find Americolor soft gel pastes online or in specialty stores. For tips on cookie decorating supplies, click HERE.

what I did:

1. Cut out, bake and let cookies cool.

(Note, for gum drops before baking, cut a 1 1/4 inch oval, then cut off the bottom third of the cookie.)

2. Make frosting and assemble frosting bags

with tips and couplers and filled with red, white, brown, light blue, green, lime green, and light pink frosting. Tie the bags closed with rubber bands.

3. Decorate your cookies.

For the gingerbread men, pipe an outline on the cookie with size “3” tip, pipe back and forth to fill the cookie, let it set about 15 minutes, then pipe details on top with a size “2” tip.

For the candy canes, pipe the cane in white with a size “4” tip, let set about 15 minutes, then pipe stripes with a size “2” tip.

For the peppermints, outline the circles with white and let set about 15 minutes. Thin some white frosting a bit, fill an empty decorating bag, snip 1/8 inch from the tip and loosely pipe on the circle. Let frosting flood to edges and encourage as needed with a toothpick. Let set well and pipe red stripes with a “2” tip.

For the gum drops, use any desired color frosting, pipe an outline with a size “4” tip, then pipe back and forth to fill the gum drop. Immediately coat with sprinkles.