Looking for an easy Hostess gift to impress your neighbors and friends with at your next Holiday party? How about Christmas Tree Hot Pads! Whip these up in no time, then add your favorite recipe to go along with them.
Finished size: 9″ x 9″ Download the pattern here, or find it in our Tutorials at the top of the page.
This is a great stash project – combine festive fabrics for the trees with contrasting backgrounds and tree trunks. Use easy paper pieced blocks and finish with binding, quilting and simple embroidery.
Add some wooden spoons, mixing bowl, and your favorite cookie recipe with these hot pads for a great gift!
And they even look great as mini quilts for my hutch decorations!
Here’s one of my favorite cookie recipes. I found this in the Gooseberry Patch Christmas Book 9. Sooo yummy!! Enjoy!
Vanilla Dipped Gingersnaps
2-1/2 C. Sugar-divided
1-1/2 C. Oil
2 Eggs
½ C. Molasses
4 C. All-Purpose Flour
4 tsp. Baking Soda
1 TBSP Ground Ginger
2 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Salt
2 11-oz Pkgs. White Chocolate Chips
¼ C. Shortening
Combine 2 cups sugar and oil in a mixing bowl; mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in molasses.
Combine flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt in a separate bowl; gradually blend into molasses mixture. Shape dough into 1” balls and roll in remaining sugar; place 2” apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until cookie springs back when lightly touched. Remove to wire racks to cool.
Melt white chocolate chips and shortening together in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring until smooth. Dip each cookie halfway into mixture; allow excess to drip off. Place cookies on wax paper to harden. Makes about 7 dozen.
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November 28, 2011 at 9:05 am
mimi'sdarlins
Lorrie, these hot pads are so sweet, and such a nice idea to add them to a kitchen basket :) I like your hand stitching around the trees. Thanks for the recipe, too….my son’s favorites are gingersnaps, but I’ve never dipped them in white chocolate….yumm!
November 28, 2011 at 9:25 am
Jeanne
super cute tree pads! Thanks for the gingersnap recipe! :-)
November 28, 2011 at 9:25 am
Diane
Love the hot pads those are really cute I will have to make some of those, and the cookies look yummy.
November 28, 2011 at 9:32 am
dee
WOW! What a great idea. I love them. I am inspired to make a quilt using this pattern and lots of my scrap Christmas fabric. Thank you so much for the pattern. The cookies look yummy.
November 28, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Karen
Very cute! The hand stitching detail is a nice touch. Jodi of Pleasant Home has a great tutorial for a mug rug that is similar. http://www.pleasant-home.com/2010/11/scrappy-tree-mug-rugs.html I made one and it was fun and fast to do!