A recipe for Fortune Christmas Cookie Tree. Follow the simple recipe instructions for Fortune Christmas Cookie Tree shared by other home cooking experts.
Ingredients
1 recipe Fortune Christmas Cookies50 6 squares of saran wrap
50 slips of paper with fortunes written on fine wire or thread
1 Styrofoam plastic tree- about 24" tall 9" base
8 yards 1/2" white ribbon
13 yards 1/2" green ribbon
straight pins
Directions
Wrap cookies in the squares of saran wrap enclosing the fortune slips on the bottom. Close with fine wire on the bottom of the cookie.After tying cut saran wrap close to cookie leaving just enough to pin on tree.
Cut 4" lengths from the white ribbon. Starting at lower corner of tree place a white ribbon loop and a red Fortune Christmas cookie on the tree with a straight Tsp. pin stuck in on the diagonal. Pin another white loop on the other side.
For the second row pin on a white loop a pink cookie a white loop another pink cookie and another white loop.
For the third row pin on a green tailored bow the size of the space on the tree.
Continue placing cookies and ribbons in this manner until the tree is completely covered.
Finish edge of tree with loops of green ribbon. "
