Frosted Holiday Cookies Piled High

Iced cookies in dozens of holiday shapes cover the frame edge to edge: gingerbread men with bow ties, pink and green Christmas trees, teal and red snowflakes, striped mittens, round ornaments, bells, stars, birds, hearts, stockings, and a small gingerbread house with a peaked roof. Every cookie is outlined in a warm brown crumb color and finished with bright white icing dots, zigzags, or stripes that echo real royal icing. The palette runs across the whole spectrum, red, green, blue, purple, yellow, and pink, so no two neighboring cookies share quite the same color even when they share a shape. Some cookies overlap so that only a wing tip or a star point peeks out from behind a larger one. Nothing about the picture suggests a table, plate, or kitchen; the cookies alone fill the space corner to corner. The variety of shapes, from simple stars to the detailed little house, gives a player many distinct silhouettes to hunt for.