Gingerbread Cookie Tree

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This snappy gingerbread look makes cookies that are cleanable for decorating.

You'll request star-shaped cooky cutters successful 7 sizes, ranging from 3 1/2 inches to 1 1/2 inches; cooky maven Gail Dosik recommends utilizing a graduated acceptable of six cutters positive 1 cutter from a jelly/candy cutter acceptable (for the smallest size). You'll besides request a 2-ounce compression vessel oregon a 12-inch-long disposable pastry container fitted with a coupler and plain circular pastry extremity #2, for "gluing" the stacked cookies together. If you privation to tube tiny leaves connected the prima points of the cookies, you’ll request a tiny leafage tip. The instrumentality is disposable astatine baking supply/crafts stores.

Pasteurized eggs are disposable astatine immoderate Harris Teeter stores; look for Davidson's brand.

The dough needs to beryllium frozen for 1 hr oregon up to 1 month; bash not refrigerate. Undecorated, baked cookies tin beryllium frozen for up to 4 weeks successful airtight containers, with treble layers of parchment betwixt the layers of cookies. Defrost astatine country somesthesia successful the wrapping truthful the condensation forms connected the parchment alternatively than connected the cookie. The icing tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for respective days; disturbance earlier using.

From a Cook's Illustrated recipe, adapted by Washington autochthonal Gail Dosik, a.k.a. One Tough Cookie, who blogs astatine onetoughcookienyc.com.

Ingredients

From a Cook's Illustrated recipe, adapted by Washington autochthonal Gail Dosik, a.k.a. One Tough Cookie, who blogs astatine onetoughcookienyc.com.

Tested by Corinne Douglas and Gail Dosik.