Learn how to make royal icing with this easy recipe.  Royal Icing is the best frosting for gingerbread houses and decorated sugar cookies because it hardens.  

These cookies for Santa Christmas cupcake toppers are made out of gum paste and are entirely edible!  The miniature plate of cookies and letter to Santa make the most charming Christmas cupcake toppers around.

These Christmas cupcakes are topped with a miniature gingerbread baking scene.  The Christmas cupcake toppers are made out of gum paste and are entirely edible!

Make these easy reindeer cupcakes by adding easy gum paste reindeer antlers to any plain cupcake.  I made all of mine Rudolph cupcakes, but you could easily make all of Santa's reindeer!

Learn how to decorate snowman sugar cookies with this tutorial.  I made some of my snowman cookies with sparkling sugar crystals, and some just with royal icing.  Both kinds of snowman sugar cookies are beautiful and pretty easy to make.

Make this Santa napkin ring to decorate your Christmas table with some felt, a toilet paper tube, some fuzzy yarn and some ribbon.  It's an easy DIY napkin ring for Christmas that looks festive and fun.

Today is the final day of the 12 days of Christmas Blog Hop, and we're all sharing our Christmas trees with you today.  My Christmas tree is smaller than it's been in 20 years (no cathedral ceilings in our new house in the UK), but it's big enough to hold all of the treasured keepsakes I've collected over my life.  

Sour cream coffee cake is an easy-to-make Christmas morning breakfast.  This sour cream coffee cake recipe is topped with delicious streusel and can be made in about 35 minutes.

This recipe for cranberry cookies makes the most delicious, soft cookies!  These cranberry cookies are full of bright flavor, and aren't too sweet.  They're a wonderful addition to any holiday cookie tray.

Make this cranberry Christmas pudding recipe in your Instant Pot!  This steamed pudding is easy to make for Christmas in under an hour using a pressure cooker.