Christmas is about family, and there's no better way to have fun together than to create a fun, unique decoration. Start with this amusing cookie train.
Materials
flat cookies (figure A)
wafer cookies (figure B)
Oreos (or similar dark cookies of your choice)
royal white icing
Lifesavers
small candies of your choice
pastry bag with icing tip
- To make the engine of the cookie train, fill a pastry bag with royal white icing and use a cake-decorating tip to spread the icing, which acts like a cement, in between four wafer cookies and stack on top of each other. Spread more icing on two sides of the wafers and place a flat cookie on each "long" side. Decorate the outside of the cookies with more icing.
- For the engine front and wheels, use two Oreo (or any dark round cookie of your choice) cookies stacked together with icing (figures C & F).
- To make the coal--or in this case, candy--car, spread icing on the edges of two wafer cookies cut in half (spread the icing on the bottom and two side edges) and attach three flat cookies to both sides and the bottom (figure D). Line the inside of the coal cars with more icing.
- To complete both the engine and coal cars, place a wafer cookie on the counter , spread icing on top of the wafer, and place the engine and/or coal car on top of the wafer. Spread icing on one side of two Oreo cookies and place on either side of the coal car (figure E).
- Lifesavers are used for the smokestack of the engine and the wheel decorations on all the cars. Once again use icing as the bond, and for the smokestack place three different-colored Lifesavers on top of each other with icing in-between and place on top of the Oreo cookie, acting as the engine light at the front. For the wheel decorations, use one Lifesaver attached with icing (figure F).
- The caboose is made exactly like the engine, but leave off the extra Oreo cookies . Top off the cars by filling them with any candy of your choice (figure G).
- Showcase your cookie train express with dry ice and decorative backdrop (figure H).
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