Table Decorations Made With Christmas Cookies

Decorating for the holiday season is a great time to get creative. Put together a winning centerpiece by incorporating delicious treats into the decor. You can use Christmas cookies in your table decorations for an attractive and edible piece. Whether you're throwing a Christmas party or looking for a way to dress up the table for a quiet family dinner, these sweet pieces are sure to please. Does this Spark an idea?

Cookie Bouquet

Sugar cookies in the shape of poinsettias, holly and mistletoe can be used to make a festive cookie bouquet to use in place of live flowers as a centerpiece. To make these edible flowers, insert a candy stick into the bottom of the cookies as soon as they emerge from the oven. As they cool, the cookies will harden around the stick. Decorate with icing and sprinkles. When the cookies are finished, anchor the sticks in floral foam and place inside a festive basket or vase. Select an opaque container for this centerpiece so the floral foam doesn't show through. A few small squares of tissue paper around the base of the arrangement provide a finishing touch.

Cookie Wreath

A cookie wreath is quick to assemble and can be easily taken apart to consume. Bake an assortment of round cookies. This project is perfect for chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies and white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. To give the cookies a wreath shape, you can also cut the middle from some of them and decorate, such as with sugar cookies. Set the cookies out around the perimeter of a large, round plate with each cookie slightly overlapping the one before it. Place a bowl in the center of the arrangement to keep the cookies from sliding inward and fill with fruit, candy or flowers.

Cookie Snow Globe

You can combine both the whimsical holiday look of a snow globe with a sugary treat in this creative table decoration. You can bake a snow globe-shaped cookie and decorate the front with your holiday scene. Prop the cookie up in the center of a chocolate candy cup or another thick cookie, so it stands upright.

Another way to create a cookie snow globe is to create the globe within a jar, vase or overturned glass bowl. Cover a plate with sugar for the bottom of the snow globe and prop up cookie people, trees and houses. Cover with the glass container to complete the dome.