Yes, it's already December. No, you have not entirely missed the cookie decorating train. Stop moping like these Melted Snowmen Cookies...
...and soon you'll have a collection like this!
1. The eyes have it.
Recipe: The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies
2. Reindeer games are always fun.
Recipe: Reindeer Cookies
3. This squirrel knows what's up. He'd remind you that you can replicate this happy sandwich cookie with any shape of cookie cutter.
Recipe: Frosted Molasses Ginger Sandwich Cookies
4. As we've long known, it's the accessories that make the outfit.
Recipe: Old Fashioned Butter Cookies With Butter Frosting
5. Yeah, I'm tired of everyone stealing my cookies, too. Monograms FTW!
Recipe: Delilah's Frosted Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
6. Or, you could always move out into your own place...
Recipe: Classic Gingerbread Cutouts
7. But then you'd miss your family...even the dog!
Recipe: Best Rolled Sugar Cookies
8. Then again, you could finally get that pet hedgehog you always wanted...
Recipe: Hedgehog Cookies
9. And if you do, he needs a happy home (obvs!).
Recipe: Meringue Mushrooms
10. OK, OK, time to focus. Graphic designers LOVE to talk about the value of white space. Apparently, it's a good look for cookies, too.
11. The details are what make a cookie extra special, like the tiny gingerbread men on this tree. And what would you place inside this edible snow globe?
12. Love the tangled Christmas lights in the reindeer antlers.
13. And to imagine how excited the tool fan in the family must have been to get these.
14. Don't be afraid to bust out ALL the cookie cutters from back in the day. Dinosaurs like Christmas, too! (Recipe: Sugar Cookie Icing).
15. You'd be amazed how much fun you can have just with circles.
Recipe: The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies
16. Fun with circles, continued.
Recipe: Glaze Icing
17. The layered look works for cookies, like these stacked snowflakes.
18. You could even decorate a holiday sweater to match!
Fuzzy recipe: Gingerbread Men
19. This fellow seems upset that he's sans sweater! More likely, he's upset about his lost arm.
Recipe: Sugar Cookie Icing
20. Or, envious of this man's mustache.
Recipe: Eileen's Spicy Gingerbread Men
21. Or maybe, like so many of us, he just misses Mom.
Now that you're full of ideas, bake up a batch of cookies to use as your blank canvases. You're going to need some frosting and icing, aren't you? Whip some up, then get started with basic cookie-decorating tips. Next, host a cookie decorating party and let your friends in on the fun.