Customer Reviews

Wilton Cookie Tree Cutter Kit

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I made two of these trees, one for my family and one for my friend. The kit is basically 10 star-shaped cookie cutters, ranging in size from almost 10" across down to 1". You cut two of each size out, and bake, cool, frost and assemble.

Both trees were beautiful, and the included dough recipes were delicious. The directions say you need a double recipe to have enough dough to make one tree. I disagree, I made them with only one recipe each. In fact, I had enough dough leftover to make about a dozen small cookies from each recipe! Handy when you have little ones dying to eat some cookies...

My friend said it was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen (she's very kind), and said it was going to be the centerpiece for her Christmas table.

I can see using the star cutters for occasions other than Christmas, too. Like star-shaped cookies for a birthday cake, or making star placecards for birthday parties to double as favors.

Nothing high tech here. Just good ol fashioned cookie cutters sized so that you can stack the cookies to make a Christmas tree. Clear, concise directions; a variety of recipes for various types of trees; suggestions for decorating. Wish I'd had these years ago.

I fell in love with this product about 11 years ago. I was 17 and my boyfreind's mother was in the process of stacking the cookies to make the tree. She now has been my mother-n-law for 10 years and we make the cookie tree at Christmas every year. This year I finally bought my own cookie cutter set to make the playful tree whenever we want. What a fun way to start a family tradition. Fun for adults and kids alike.

The dough recipe was easy to follow, cutting and baking the cookies was easy enough. I would definitely line my pans with parchment next time to save on clean up. Allow a good portion of your day for this project, it is time consuming!

Making the frosting is simple enough. You don't need to double the recipe like they suggest, I had plenty to frost each cookie and to "glue" the tree together and stick little candy ornaments on it; I still had some leftover. I colored my frosting green with food coloring. I needed much more coloring than I expected to get the desired color. It looked pretty though. I liked that I could put the frosting aside for a few hours and warm it up later to loosen it and finish my project later in the day.

The end result was an adorable tree that dressed up our holiday table. I got many compliments.

Bear in mind, I am no Betty Crocker--I'm a bit of a baking klutz and I was able to pull this off. I can cook well but my work is rarely pretty--my cakes crack, my pies are lopsided...The fact that I made this and it looked cute says something about the ease of this project.

I haven't tried it with jello, chocolate or rice krispy treats yet...maybe next year!

The cutters are great, sturdy, and bright green so they are easy to keep togeather. The sugar cookie recipie is delicious. However, in the instructions it says you will need 2 batches, and I have made the tree 3 times with only one batch of dough, with enough left over to make some cookies for snacking. Same thing for the easy pour frosting, it says you will need 2 batches but I coated all the stars with just one batch of pourable frosting and one batch of buttercream (with a bit of corn syrup so it would set up firm and hold the shape). Overall it takes me about 1 1/2 hours actively working to make a georgious tree that people need convincing to eat.

The product was very good; just what I wanted. However; it was bad enough that the vendor charged double what the manufacturer priced it at but to add $10.00 to ship it was too much. I will not be ordering anything more from this vendor. Amazon should be more aware of this type of gouge.

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I created 7 gingerbread houses this year, and bought a pre-baked gingerbread tree for our daughter to make this year for Christmas. These tree cookie cutters will build a much taller tree than the pre-baked gingerbread tree kit our daughter made for Christmas this year. I taught cake decorating for over 26 years, so I remembered Wilton had a set of cutters to make this three-dimensional tree, and found it at Amazon. Thank you!

These were fun to make! Make sure you have hours though. We dyed sugar cookie dough green and cut out thicker dough than what it calls for or your trees will be short and squatty. We made 4 trees (80 cookies) and decorated them with white icing and round candies and they turned out amazing!

Cookie cutters are good size, instructions easy to follow. I have a sugar cookie recipe from "Betty Crocker's Cookie Book" that I like better though. Although the recipe included in the kit instructions is not bad, by any means.

Cookie Tree came out great...I did find you needed a few more smaller cookies at the top to make a nice full tree!