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Prepare the cookie dough.
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It needs to be put in the freezer, so you need to prepare it first.
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Cut out the cookie shapes.
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Roll out the dough to 5 mm thick.
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Cut out 6 pointed stars in the sizes of 16 cm, 11 cm, 6 cm, and 4 cm, making a total of 4 stars.
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From the same batter, cut out a 6 cm diameter circle to use for the tree trunk.
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Place the cut batter between two sheets of saran wrap and freeze.
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Freezing prevents the dough from crumbling during baking.
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In an oven preheated to 160C, bake for roughly 15 minutes.
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Cool completely.
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Make the icing.
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Mix the lemon juice and the water into the powdered sugar.
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The icing becomes watery very fast, so add it drop by drop and adjust accordingly.
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Pour the icing into a piping bag to use as an adhesive to stick the tree together.
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From the bottom, 2 circles -->star-->mini cream puffs-->star, etc.
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This recipe makes a lot of icing, but if there's not enough icing, it becomes hard to squeeze out of the bag.
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If you want to decrease the amount, do so appropriately.
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I shifted the points of the stars while layering.
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As you can see in the picture, I used the extra icing for decorating.
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If you use 2 batches of cookie dough, you can make this much.
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Using a lot of colorful snacks from the supermarket makes it look very nice.
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This year, I changed the design of the train, but refer tofor the instructions.
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This is a close-up of the ornaments.
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They're held by twirling wire.
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I made the holes in the cookies when I cut the shapes with a straw.
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On Christmas Day, I used the cookie tree as a cake topper.
