How to Make a Holiday Cookie Tree

Learn  How to Make a Holiday Cookie Tree and have a Hassle-Free Holiday Party using food from the Chick-fil-A catering menu.

I am a huge fan of Chick-fil-A food, embarrassed to admit I visit my neighborhood Chick-fil-A restaurant several times a week.

Of course, I tend to order the same thing from the menu each time I visit. I can honestly tell you I have never ordered from the catering menu until now. I was like a kid when I was looking through the catering menu online.

My eyes lit up when I saw the tray of chocolate chip cookies! I have always heard wonderful stories about Chick-fil-A’s cookies but for some reason, I have never tasted them.

As soon as I saw those huge chocolate chips cookies on the catering menu, all I could see were cookies hanging from a tree. Sounds funny I know, it’s the truth, though.

Chick-fil-A makes it super easy to order from their catering menu with several options to order. You can place an order from their catering menu online, call your local Chick-fil-A to place an order over the phone, or visit your local Chick-fil-A restaurant to place an order in person.

They offer something that will appeal to everyone’s taste buds. And, I love the idea of having catering trays of food from Chick-fil-A instead of preparing everything for a holiday party myself.

I decided to make a Cookie Tree. Every Christmas Eve my husband and I host a Christmas Eve party for our family and friends at our home; usually, there are lots of children running around.

I thought it would be fun to give each child at the party a cookie to take home to put out for Santa Claus.

I ordered the 24 count, cookie tray. If you have never tasted these gooey chocolate chunk cookies, you are in for a treat.

First, you need 12-24 chocolate chip cookies from Chick-fil-A, plastic cookie bags, green and red ribbon, a hole puncher, white paint, plaster of Paris, a flower pot, tape, and a tree branch. You could make several cookie trees to place out around your party if you wanted. I think the cookies hanging from the tree like ornaments look festive.

Learn How to make a Holiday cookie Tree

1. Cut and remove leaves and dirt from a tree branch. Paint the branch with white spray paint and let dry.

2.Once the branch is dry, prepare the plaster of paris in the flower pot that you plan on using as the base according to the directions on the container  (I suggest using a flower pot bigger than mine) the plaster of paris should be the consistency of peanut butter. Fill the flower pot almost to the top, work quickly because the plaster of paris dries fast. Stick your branch into the plaster of paris in your flower pot making sure it’s centered, hold the branch in place for a few seconds until the plaster of paris is firm.

3. Place each cookie in a plastic cookie bag, fold the bag shut and tape close. Use a hole puncher to put a hole in the top of each bag with the cookie in them.

4. Put ribbon through each hole of the cookie bags.

Kim’s note– I used a chopped stick to push the ribbon through the holes. Use something with a pointed end to push the ribbon through the holes.