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Prepare your favorite cut-out cookie dough.
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You can make the dough in advance, and freeze it either in dough form or after cutting out the shapes.
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Cut the cookie dough out and bake it.
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Here I started by deciding on the size of the base dough (you could use a plate or box as the base instead).
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For reference, my base was about 12 x 24 cm.
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The base of the house was 9.5 cm, and the height of the house was 12.5 cm and 9.5 cm.
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I added windows and doors.
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The tree is formed by putting two pieces together in the middle, but one piece was 6 cm wide at the base and 19.5 cm high.
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I also cut out some ornament shapes.
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The dough puffs up a bit when it's baked, so make your cut-out patterns a bit smaller than you want the final shapes to be.
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If part of the cookie bakes up bumpy, you can just scrape it smooth with a knife.
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Put a small mound of crushed candies (about 5 mm pieces) in each of the windows when baking the cookie house walls.
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Make the icing.
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Add drops of water to the powdered sugar and mix.
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The icing should be just thick enough that it doesn't drip easily, and be glossy.
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Use the icing as glue and snow to put the house and tree together!
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I stuck on some candies too.
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There's a tiny tiny star on top of the tree.
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Put a small candle in the central triangle of the tree, and fix it in place with a cut-out cookie ornament.
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From another angle:
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Scatter on whatever candies you have as additional decoration.
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Maybe the candies look like stained glass too?
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Make more cut out cookies with any leftover dough.
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Use these not just for decoration, but as snacks for the kids.
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Here is how the cookie house looks during the day.
