Food is so much more fun with a theme. If you agree, pick one of these Christmas Tree-Shaped Foods for your next holiday gathering.
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When we’re putting together our Christmas menus, we all kind of serve the same spread.
You do some sort of cheese and crackers or antipasto for an appetizer. And we always make far too many Christmas desserts because, let’s be honest, we all love the saying, “Christmas calories don’t count.”
If you want a way for your Christmas offering to stand out, take a page out of my book and make your food Christmas tree shaped.
You’re basically serving the same foods, just taking a little more time to arrange it adorably.
If you like this idea, you’ll love everything on our list of Christmas tree-shaped foods.
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Christmas Tree Shaped Food
As we add more Christmas tree-shaped recipes to Drugstore Divas, we’ll update this post to include them, so save it (pin it, bookmark it, however, you save posts) and come back from time to see what ideas we’ve added.
Savory Christmas Tree-Shaped Food
Charcuterie Tree For Christmas
Charcuterie is so popular, and it’s a great way to start out your Christmas meal. But just cutting meat and cheese and it on a tray is sort of boring.
Instead, grab a foam cone and wrap it so it’s food safe. Then, stick your meat and cheese with toothpicks and stick them straight into the foam cone.
Make a star for the top, wrap crackers around the bottom to act as a tree skirt, and you have an adorable festive appetizer.
Sweet Christmas Tree-Shaped Food
Chocolate Christmas Tree Pretzel Sticks
Cupcakes are really easy treat for a large Christmas party because they’re individually wrapped, so people can just grab one and get back to mingling. If you want to make yours a little more festive, make these chocolate pretzel Christmas tree pretzel sticks to go on top.
They don’t have to be served as a Christmas cupcake topper. You can just put them out as their own individual treat and let people eat them that way too.
Easy Brownie Christmas Trees
Brownies are always so popular so you can never go wrong with bringing about two of them out at Christmas time.
However, if you want them to look even more festive, cut them into triangles and decorate them to look like trees when you follow this Christmas tree brownie recipe.
It’s super simple because it’s made from boxed brownies however you can use your own homemade brownie recipe if you want to. Since people eat with their eyes first, anyway, as long as your treat looks adorable, people won’t care that you use store-bought mix.
Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies
I love making meringue cookies because they’re pretty easy so you get a lot of credit for not that much work.
If you feel comfortable with a piping bag, you should absolutely make these Christmas tree. Paragraph you make the meringue. Is a sand mixer, colored green, then it into Christmas tree shapes. Before you bake them, you shake some non-peril onto them and cut them with a star shaped sprinkle. You’re done.
They come out really cute and people love them.
Christmas Donut Hole Tree (aka Donut Croquembouche)
If you want something super easy, it doesn’t get much easier than store-bought donut holes.
But, you wanna look like you tried, right? In that case, grab a foam cone and some toothpicks because you’re making a doughnut croquembouche. No, no, no. Don’t run away. It’s so much easier to make than pronounce.
You wrap a foam cone to make it food safe, then put a toothpick in a doughnut hole and use that to stick it into foam cone. Keep going until you’re out of doughnut holes, then add a star on top to make it look like a Christmas tree and you’re done. Trust me this will be the focal point of the dessert table.
Have you tried any of these Christmas tree shaped foods this Christmas? Let us know how it went in the comments.