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18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

Christmas doesn't have to be the most stressful time in the year.

You also have the right to use cheats!

In particular, if you are the one hosting guests at your home.

Here are 18 tips to make your kitchen life easier this holiday season:

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

1. Store tubs of ice cream in a freezer bag

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

This will make the ice cream soft enough to serve right away.

2. Cook lots of hard-boiled eggs in the oven

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

Place the eggs in a muffin pan so they don't roll in the oven. Put the oven at 160° and cook for 30 minutes. In addition to having better taste, the eggshells will be easier to remove!

3. Use the cardboard egg cartons to store Christmas decorations

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

4. Need an easy to make dessert? Make Strawberry Santas

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

Choose frozen strawberries;-)

5. Freeze whipped cream to melt into hot chocolate

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

6. Draw Christmas trees on parchment paper using melted chocolate

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

Place the Christmas trees in the fridge to harden. And when it's done, it makes you pretty decorations for a cake.

7. Make a snowman pizza

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

Pizza is now an official holiday dish! And you can feed a multitude of people by making three pizzas in one.

8. Make a big serving of hot chocolate in a slow cooker

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

And use a ladle to serve it in the cups.

9. Use a peeler to make chocolate shavings and decorate your desserts

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

10. Three candy canes glued together make perfect place cards or tags

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

11. Turn your towels into pixie slippers

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

Watch this video here to learn how.

12. Use Christmas cookie cutters to make original pancakes

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

13. You can also make brownies in cookie cutters

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

14. Repurpose boxes of Pringles crisps to store and gift homemade cookies

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

15. Use condiment bottles filled with icing to decorate cookies

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

A fun way to let the kids help you.

16. And put the bottle in hot water to have melting chocolate

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

17. Use the stem of a crystal glass to decorate your shortbread biscuits

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

18. Certainly the easiest table decoration to make

18 Ingenious Tricks To Make Preparing Christmas Meal Easier.

Just add some candies on a tray.