instructions
One day in advance: make cookies. Roll out dough. Cut 2 cookies for each angel using bell cutter from set.
Trim one bell straight on bottom and one side edge to form easel. Bake and cool.
Position cookies on cooling grid
over cookie sheet; cover with thinned white royal icing. Let dry overnight.
Decorate cookies on waxed paper covered cake boards. Using full-strength royal icing in red, outline and pipe
in cookies with tip 3 (pat smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Pipe tip 5 pull-out arms in red.
Tint a 2 in. ball of fondant copper. Roll a 3/4 in. ball head for each cookie; attach with icing. Pipe tip 2 zigzag
fur collar in white.
For hands, roll 5/16 in. balls of copper fondant; score fingers with craft knife.
Tint a 1 in. ball of fondant
green; roll out 1/8 in. thick and cut NOEL using alphabet Cut-Outs. Attach letters and hands with dots of icing.
Pipe tip 2 zigzag fur cuffs in white and swirl hair in brown. . Roll 1/16 balls of copper fondant for noses;
attach with damp brush.
Pipe tip 1 dot and string eyes and mouth in black.
Pipe tip 352 holly leaves in green, tip
1 dot berries in red. Add tip 3 zigzag fur hat.
Attach cookie easel to back of cookie with icing. Position cookies.