Make A Cookie Wreath This Christmas

Christmas décor is an exception. Fine. You're perhaps competitive. However, your neighborhood's best outside lights show is the reason.

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you can get snippy when someone says their cinnamon bun recipe is "the best" (unless it's Ree!). Have you tried hers? Wow!).

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Well, what if we told you you can finally win the decorating game? That we'd found the best cake and decoration in one

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Drumroll, please: Edible cookie wreath! You can win Christmas by making a cookie wreath and using DIY Christmas decorations.

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Joy Wilson, Ree's friend and Joy the Baker, does it in the newest Joy the Baker Magazine.

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It sounds too good to be true. However, these tasty wreaths make great DIY Christmas gifts.—are real.

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If you don't consider yourself an artisan, think again. If you have some cookies and can draw a circle, you're good.

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Every blogger and baker makes these colorful wreaths differently. Pina Bresciani suggests arranging the cookies in a circle

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Others, like The DIY Mommy, utilize a thin cardboard backing and corn syrup-based icing to "glue" the cookies.

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You can also use any cookies you have on hand: gingerbread, sugar cookie stars, thumbprint, sandwich, cowboy boot, etc.

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