• Give a sweet gift of sugar cookies.sugar cookies image by Horticulture from Fotolia.com
  
  If you have a new neighbor--or are simply going to a party--consider giving a gift of sugar cookies. Sugar cookies are easy to make because of their simple ingredients, while still being satisfying and sweet. You can decorate home-baked sugar cookies to reflect the occasion by using edible embellishments and colored icing.
  
  

Home-baked Sugar Cookies

• Make your own sugar cookies by following a simple recipe from a well-known recipe website, such as The Food Network, and use cookie cutters that fit the occasion of the event. For example, for a housewarming party, use cookie cutters in the shapes of people and houses. You can decorate the surfaces of the cookies with colored icing piped from cake decorating tubes, sprinkles, red hots and other edible decorations.
  
  

Sugar Cookie Kaleidoscope

• Customize your own "sugar cookie kaleidoscope" and fill it with round sugar cookies that fit within the tube. To do this, simply glue decorative paper around an empty potato chip tube, one that is in the shape of a kaleidoscope. You can also tie around or glue on decorative ribbon. Bake or buy your sugar cookies, and load them one on top of the other into the tube.
  
  

Sugar Cookie Bouquet

• Buy a sugar cookie bouquet from a custom cookie shoppe or online vendor. You can buy the cookie bouquets in a wide variety of shapes--from flowers to butterflies to lady bugs to baseball bats. You also can have the cookie bouquets delivered to the gift recipient's home or office.