Cookie Wreaths Are the Baking Trend You’ve Got to Try This Christmas
Who, you? Competitive?! Never!
...Well, except when Christmas décor is involved. Fine. Then, you're a little competitive. But it's only because your outdoor lights display really is the best in the neighborhood.
And, okay, sure, you can get a little snippy when someone claims that their cinnamon roll recipe is "the best" (unless that person is Ree Drummond, in which case, good luck to ya—the woman isn't playing around).
But what if we told you there's officially a way to put everyone else's decorations to shame once and for all? That we'd finally uncovered the ultimate baked good and the prettiest decoration—all in one?
You'd admit you want the secret, that's what.
Drumroll, please: It's an edible cookie wreath! Yes, the key to winning Christmas is to combine the powers of Christmas cookies and DIY Christmas decorations and fashion yourself a wreath made out of cookies. Even Ree's friend Joy Wilson, also known as Joy the Baker, is doing it in the latest issue of Joy the Baker Magazine.
It sounds too good to be true. But these delicious wreaths—which double as excellent DIY Christmas gifts, by the way!)—are, in fact, real. And if you don't think of yourself as a crafter, think again. As long as you've got a few cookies lying around and know how to draw a circle, you're in business.
Every blogger and baker seems to have their own way of putting these fun wreaths together. Some, like Pina Bresciani, suggest simply laying out the cookies in a circle formation on your dessert table and finishing the whole thing off with an oversized ribbon. Others, like The DIY Mommy, opt for a barely-there cardboard backing, and use a corn syrup-based icing to "glue" the cookies to its surface.
And you can use whatever cookies you've got on hand, too: gingerbread cookies, sugar cookie stars, thumbprint cookies, sandwich cookies, cowboy boot cookies...the options are endless.
As for your friends who are upset they didn't hear about this idea first? That's just the way the cookie crumbles, folks.
