Sharing how to create a beautiful Christmas cookie bento box for your family and friends! A perfect hostess or thank you gift for the holiday season.
Tell me who wouldn’t be excited to receive a box full of delicious cookies? I know both Joshua and myself would be VERY excited!
With this being the season of baking and giving it is the perfect opportunity to create a Christmas Cookie Bento Box. Spice up the traditional cookie exchange with a festive box of your favorite Christmas cookies. Or gift to your neighbors, friends, and family this holiday season as a delicious, creative homemade gift. Pair with a bottle of wine or hot chocolate mix for the ultimate combination.
HOW TO CREATE A CHRISTMAS COOKIE BENTO BOX:
First you need to know what kinds of cookies you are adding to your Christmas cookie bento box.
I recommend using a mix of homemade and store-bought cookies. Unless you’re having a full baking week and whip up a wide variety of cookies. You can also do fully store-bought if baking isn’t your thing! No shame in that. You’re still taking the time to create a beautiful, delicious box for your recipient to enjoy!
When making your cookie selections :
Create a mix of sizes and shapes
Having a variety of shapes and sizes will create dimension. Which will make the cookie bento box more visually appealing! A classic round cookie, an oblong cookie, rectangular shortbread cookies, and oversized waffle cookies were the variety I selected.
A variety of flavors
Having a variety of flavors makes sure there is a little something for everyone! Plus a traditional bento box usually includes a wide variety of flavors, so this shouldn’t be any different. To give you a few ideas: chocolate, shortbread, fruit or preserves, gingerbread, and nuts.
Add another treat
Again to create a more visually appealing box adding an additional item or two is necessary! Think bits of candy, nuts, or fresh fruit.
HOW TO DECORATE A Christmas COOKIE Bento BOX:
After you’ve selected the cookies you’ll be including it’s time to pick your box! What you’ll be placing all those cookies inside of. A few options; simple disposable paper boxes, a tin box, a wood box or even a smaller crate would be cute.
The box I used, is actually a door organizer box. We have several for our kitchen and had an extra so I figured why not give it a new purpose! Tis the season to get creative, right?
To decorate, I added paper cupcake liners to place one set of cookies in and twine to wrap a stack of homemade cookies. If you have more space in your box or are using a smaller crate, include a pretty cloth napkin or wide ribbon. Have fun and let your creative side out!
HOW TO ASSEMBLE:
Honestly, this part is all a little trial and error! Figuring out where your cookies will fit – kind of like a puzzle!
Though you do want to make your cookies fit in the box, you always want it to be visually pleasing. So my top recommendation for doing that is stacking the cookies at various heights with various amounts of each type of cookie in it’s particular stack. Don’t be afraid to stack them sideways, if they fit better that way & look pretty.
If you are going to using cupcake liners to place one of your stacks inside of, I recommend placing that stack first and building around that. That is what I did and then started to fill around them, starting with my biggest cookie & working my way down till the puzzle, I mean box, was complete!
Now show off that beauty with pride & try your hardest not to dive in before gifting it!
want more holiday content? check out the holiday page! or head straight to my most recent holiday post, holiday gift wrapping ideas.
This is seriously the CUTEST!!! I’m all about the Christmas cookies! And I know its not the focus of this post – but I NEED that sweater for after baby! LOVE it!
-Morgan
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thank you so much girl friend! I will send you the link to it!
xo Laura Leigh
UM OK this is SUCH a cute idea!!! And I mean, who WOULDN’T want to receive this?!
Dana | It’s Casual Blog
right? like yep! sign me up 🙂 haha. thank you gal!
xo Laura Leigh
This looks like such a great idea! I would love to get one of these so I think anyone receiving this would really love it! Thank you for sharing!
aw thank you gal! I completely agree with you 🙂
xo Laura Leigh
I am usually a cake person, but lately I have really been loving some chunky cookies. So this post really speaks to me on gastronomical level 😀
yay! so happy that matched up!
xo Laura Leigh
This Christmas Bento Box is a genius idea! We make so many different kind of Christmas cookies and this is a great way to gift them!
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aw thank you gal! it really is such a fun way to do so.
xo Laura Leigh
OMG this is the cutest thing ever!!! I love how this looks and it would be such a cute gift idea! Xx.
aw thank you carrington! we loved gifting a few of them over the holidays!
xo Laura Leigh
Give me all the cookies this year! I am rarely into baking but this year I’m all about it. Love this idea!
xo Jessica
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yessss! the amount I ate was out of control but I’m not upset about it!
xo Laura Leigh
What an incredibly creative and thoughtful gift idea – or a great concept for a gathering as well (in the future). I do love a good cookie and putting together a fun bento box like this would probably be a blast. It’s a good way to mix together all the best cookies!
aw thank you girl friend! so true – would be very cute for a gathering in the future. they really were so fun to put together – might have to make an excuse to make them outside of the Christmas holiday as well.
xo Laura Leigh
This is such a cute idea! I’ve never thought about making a bento box for cookies but I would love to make something like this!
thank you Kileen! you should – they’re so fun to put together!
xo Laura Leigh
I love this idea as a gift…would love even more to receive one! lol xoxo, Sarah
thanks girl friend! haha right? me too. I won’t lie we totally made one for ourselves and enjoyed it on a road trip.
xo Laura Leigh
OMGG this is the cutest idea, Laura! I totally want to make one of these! So fun and such a great gift idea!
Lizzie
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aw thank you Lizzie! hope you made one and enjoyed it over the holiday season – or gifted to someone to enjoy!
xo Laura Leigh
This is such a cute idea!! I love this!
Xo, Steph
thank you so much stephani
xo Laura Leigh