Fortune Christmas Cooky Tree

1 recipe Fortune Christmas Cookies

50 6" squares of saran wrap

50 slips of paper with fortunes written on

fine wire or thread 1 styrofoam plastic tree-

about 24" tall 9" base 8 yards 1/2" white ribbon

13 yards 1/2" green ribbon

straight pins

Wrap cookies in the squares of saran wrap enclosing the fortune slips on the bo ttom. Close with fine wire on the bottom of the cooky.

After tying, cut saran wrap close to cooky, leaving just enough to pin on tree.

Cut 4" lengths from the white ribbon. Starting at lower corner of tree, place a white ribbon loop and a red Fortune Christmas cooky on the tree with a straigh t pin stuck in on the diagonal. Pin another white loop on the other side.

For the second row, pin on a white loop, a pink cooky, a white loop, another pi nk cooky and another white loop.

For the third row, pin on a green tailored bow the size of the space on the tre e.

Continue placing cookies and ribbons in this manner until the tree is completel y covered.

Finish edge of tree with loops of green ribbon.