A friend of ours throws a delightful cookie party every December: guests bring cookies or dough to swap and decorate, and after a few hours of leisurely baking and frosting, everyone goes home with a giant box of cookies. And I mean giant. These pictures do not even begin to convey the spectacular variety or overwhelming number of cookies at this party. On top of the gingerbread, molasses cookies, truffles, sugar cookies, coconut clusters and pizzelles below, there were biscotti, mint-chocolate chip, three kinds of oatmeal, toffee bars, spoon cookies, wine twists, crumbly crescent cookies and mini black and whites.
Cookie decorating parties a real fun. We have a few every year. Lately we've been using melted colored choclates to add flair. We use the candymelter palette to keep the colors clean and wet for use. The colored choclate drys fats once applied and the cookies look great. Real fun addition to the party.