200 degrees C). Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
The assembled cake is 9 x 26 inches long.
Preheat oven to 375\u00b0.
Combine in a large bowl the cake mixes, eggs, butter and orange juice.
Mix at medium speed for 4 minutes.
Stir in grated peel and pour into prepared pans.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Cool 15 minutes, then remove from pans.
Place completely cooled cakes upside-down and end to end.
Spread 2 cans frosting on top and sides.
Draw a Christmas tree shape and border in the frosting.
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Spread basil pesto on
pots and brighten up the tree. Using toothpicks only IF needed
Fill a Christmas tree shaped tray or pan with broccoli florets. The broccoli should be cut to the depth of the pan. Once the pan is full, prop the broccoli up to make it appear that the \"tree\" is lush and green.
Insert baby carrots into the broccoli so that just the tips show. These are the ornaments on the tree.
Insert cherry tomatoes for more \"ornaments\".
Place a small bowl (star-shaped?) at the top of the pan filled with Ranch dressing.
In large saucepan heat butter and marshmallows over low heat, stirring constantly, until marshmallows are melted.
Remove from heat.
Stir in vanilla and food color.
Fold in cereal until evenly coated.
On waxed paper, quickly shape warm mixture with buttered hands into Christmas tree shapes, using about 2/3 cup mixture for each place-card size tree or 1/4 cup mixture for each individual cookie size tree.
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Grease 2 large cookie sheets.
Divide dough in
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rough shape of a Christmas tree (triangle) with a knife, just
rrange starfruit slices to make Christmas tree shapes of varying heights and
You will need a Christmas tree cookie cutter; be sure cutter is not larger than bread.
Cut bread using a Christmas-tree-shaped cookie cutter to make 8 pieces. Spread goat cheese on top of bread shapes. Sprinkle celery and sun-dried tomatoes on top.
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Blend cheeses.
Stir in garlic salt, green pepper and pimento. Place mixture on sheet of aluminum foil and flatten to 3/4-inch thickness in the shape of a Christmas tree.
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Move the tree on foil to serving platter and trim away foil even with the tree shape.
Arrange pecan halves in rows across the tree until the entire surface is covered.
Refrigerate.
At serving time, arrange parsley or endive around the edge of tree and serve with crackers.
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Place the clean leaf lettuce onto a plate.
Arrange the broccoli florets into a Christmas tree shape.
Using other vegetables decorate the tree.
Examples include:
Red pepper (julienned slices) as garland on the tree.
Cauliflower as the trunk with a border of carrot and celery sticks.
Serve with Ranch dressing as dip.
Combine the first 2 ingredients.
When they are well mixed, shape with your hands into form of Christmas tree.
Cut olives crosswise; stick into tree all over.
Cover tree with chopped dry or fresh parsley; cut a star pattern of cardboard.
Cut slice of Cheddar about 1/4-inch thick.
Lay star pattern on cheese; carefully slice around pattern.
Insert toothpick (carefully) into base of star; set into tree top.
Serve with crackers.
Mix all ingredients in a bucket.
After giving your tree a fresh cut place Christmas Tree Preservative in base and enjoy your tree trimming.
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