Food & Party Planning Ideas
Walking in a Wilton Wonderland
Wilton Makes Creating
an Edible Village a Family Affair. Wilton Enterprises has solved an
age-old dilemma: What can a family do together during the holidays that
everyone will enjoy?
The whole family will jump at the chance to create an edible holiday
village. A new family tradition could begin this year with help from
Wilton.
"It won't be hard to get family members together this holiday season," states Nancy Siler, consumer affairs director of Wilton Enterprises. "With a dash of creativity and a sprinkle of competition – making your own winter wonderland village will become a favorite family activity. "
On Your Mark… Get Set… Decorate!
You won't have to spend hours in the kitchen baking this season to create delectable treats. Simply let the fun begin with Wilton's Pre-baked and Pre-assembled Gingerbread kits. Gather the family and grab a handful of mini jawbreakers, spice drops and other goodies and decorate away. Don't forget Wilton's Ready-To-Decorate Icing on the roof and shutters…it will definitely tempt your sweet tooth.
Create and arrange your village or have a friendly competition! Family members can split up into groups or individually decorate gingerbread houses with their own personal style. Each group can then judge each other's creations. However, there are no losers with this competition, because everyone will enjoy eating mouth-watering treats.
Frosting the Snowman
Let your family bake their cake and eat it too, especially when it involves making a Candy Cane Cake for the winter wonderland. Stir Christmas Sprinkle Sparks right into your favorite white cake batter and bake in Wilton's Stand-up Snowman Pan. Decorate the snowman with creamy Ready-To-Use Decorator Icing flavored with our Peppermint Candy Flavoring, gumdrops and mini chocolate chips. This large snowman will be the main attraction of the village or can be used as a table centerpiece. The only melting this snowman will do is in your mouth!
The Village People
No winter wonderland village is complete without an ensemble of townspeople, snowmen and trees. Small children can use gingerbread boy, snowman and tree cookie cutters, along with Wilton's new Food Writers™ Edible Markers to bring the cookies to life. Simply draw hair on your cookie people or a smile on your snowman with the ease of a crayon. Add a special touch to your village people and snowmen with fruit roll ups, cinnamon candies and Wilton's Red Jimmies. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but it only takes one child to eat this village of tasty cookies.
Decorating Ideas
- For the younger members of the family, why not recreate the "Three Little Pigs." You can decorate one of the houses with uncooked spaghetti to resemble straw, small pretzels for the stick house and cherry or strawberry liquorice bites to build the house made of bricks.
- Create your own medieval village. Simply tint shredded coconut with green food or icing colors for grass and use brown sugar to create the dirt paths leading to a gingerbread castle! With the gingerbread boy cutter and Food Writers™, you can create villagers, court jesters and even prince charming!
Candy Cane Cake
Snowmen, Villagers and Tree Cookies
