Edible Christmas tree decoration ideas please - Bought and homemade

[joymaker]

What do you find works well -and tastes delicious of course ? They will be largely for DP and I as DS is will only be coming up to 20 months, although I would like him to be able to partake .

As well as buying in, we'd quite like to make something this year. Do buscuits keep well (should we make them the night before?). Recipes welcome.

Thanks

[CrotchFlakes]

Call me old fashioned but candy canes and Cadburys do it for me.
And personally I would not want children to know that they were edible, ever, purely decorative

[Binfullofmaggotsonthe45]

We nomally download a cookie dough mix recipe from the internet - something spicy, gingery etc. Then ds and I roll out and cut shapes together. Last year we got uber fancy and made round cookies, cut star shapes out of the middle and put cheap hard candy in the centres. If you use a drinking straw to make a hole in the tops you can hang them with ribbon or wire etc.

The sweets melt and fill up the hole in the centre - when they cool they look like coloured glass and are very cute when the fairy lights twinkle through them. We added some white zig zag icing, silver balls etc on them and they looked like baubles.

You can also thread popcorn onto cotton to hang and eat?

I love candy canes and the cheap tree chocs but they just don't seem to last that long.

[joymaker]

Binfullofmaggotsonthe45 the cookies sound lovely and a fab activity to do with your ds! Do you also do anything savoury? My ds will nibble on a bit of chocolate occasionally but hasn't got a very sweet tooth.

[Binfullofmaggotsonthe45]

Can't say I've ever thought of it joymaker as this is the one time I let the family go sweet really.

I suppose you could make savoury biscuits - and cookie cut those?
Cheese sables, oatcakes etc? Popcorn could be savoury too. Not on the tree but you could make cream cheese penguins?

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Or make little woven baskets and put breadsticks in

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I just had a vision of a tree clad in Vol au Vents!

[LordOfTheFlies]

M&S and Sainsbury do tiny gingerbread men biscuits but they are not spicy enough for me
I put my iced gingerbread bisciuts in a clear cellophane bag with a ribbon to hang up, to keep them fresh and they always fall on the floor!

We buy the little candy canes from Lakeland Limited- red and white. Alot of shops have them in pink and white but that's just not Christmassy

When the DCs were small we used to hang the Cadburys Tree decorations on the bannister in the pine swags. They used to miraculously disappear and the empty wrapper would be left.

I overheard DS tell his sister "Look you open them and take the chocolate out and leave the wrapper and she'll never know ".
Yes I did notice, DS, I did.

[joymaker]

CrotchFlakes

Binfullofmaggotsonthe45 -lovely ideas- my ds would love the penguins! I should really start doing some research of my own . One can always rely on MNetters to get the creative juices flowing

[joymaker]

DP and I are not massive fans of candy cane although they do look pretty. we'll try the Cadburys Tree decorations and make (orangy gingery) gingerbread men my ds would love that (as well as the penguins) too I think, thanks LordOfTheFlies your ds

[bigbadbarry]

You could string popcorn into garlands, would your DS like that?

[MaMattoo]

Check out lakelands Christmas catalogue..load of ideas and edible things to make to hand off a tree..

[joymaker]

bigbadbarry, Binfullofmaggotsonthe45 suggested a similar idea and I love popcorn however DP doesn't particularly so when I make it (rarely) I always end up eating it all . I don't think I've ever given it to ds to eat before, though I think I might make a batch of it to see if he likes it before I start to thread it all

[joymaker]

MaMattoo I'll have a look at Lakelands thanks for the tip!