Our good family friend, Mrs. Regan, asked me to make a few batches of assorted decorated sugar cookies to send out as Christmas Presents. I was very excited to do some more Xmas cookies and so happy that she thought of me for the order! I packaged up the 1 1/2 dozen cookies in two boxes per package with a little gift card.
Since the packages were going to families with young kids, I did a wintery assortment of snowmen, reindeer, snowy christmas trees and snowflakes. I made a gift tag cookie for each of the kids with their name piped in red script. I liked they way the gift tag cookies came out. They had that fancy, old-fashioned feel to them. Like the kind of gift tag that might come from the North Pole. Maybe even specifically the North Pole depicted in the movie The Santa Clause.
I threw in some Ho Ho Ho's for good measure.
I love a little blue thrown into the standard christmas colors, like this holiday card shown below from Paper Crave. It really appeals to me for some reason.
Source: papercrave.com via {sweetkiera} on Pinterest
And finally, in the spirit of playing with your food, I included one segmented snowman cookie in each package so the kids could build their own snowman. I completely copied this cookie directly from the Segmented Christmas Collection created by the very talented Judy of East Coast Cookies, who I found through Sweet Sugar Belle's dancing elf cookie post. I just thought the idea was adorable and clever and had to try it out. I gave my snowman a little snow hat to match his mittens, but everything else was straight up Judy's design. I didn't want to change it... I loved everything about it!
Hope the packages were well received!