Make new memories this holiday season and enjoy fun, family activities, both indoors, and outside of the house with help from Jackson Hole businesses. Ideas include getting creative in the kitchen with locally made cookie kits, from Persephone and Little Kits, or find a variety of hot cocoa flavors, marshmallow toppings, and baking decorations at Mursell’s, for after you bundle up for an afternoon at Snow King Mountain.
There are plenty of ways to keep the kids smiling and happy this season. Get in the Christmas spirit with Persephone’s holiday cookie kit, Cookies for Santa. These delicious sugar cookies are baked with rich European butter and real vanilla. For $35, the mini size cookies are packaged with Sweetapolita sprinkles and sweet royal icing for the season. A great activity, and the perfect gift for Santa on Christmas Eve.
There is only one person who loves cookies as much as we do, Santa Clause. We created a kit just for Santa and think that you and Santa will love it!
Persephone
The Kit Includes:
- Five undecorated holiday sugar cookies in different shapes, including candy canes, reindeer, Christmas tree, mitten, and stocking.
- One large packet of extra fancy sprinkles
- One packet of white sanding sugar
- Three piping bags of colored decorating icing
- One packet of white flood icing
Persephone also offers a made in-house, gingerbread tiny home kit. The miniature gingerbread home comes complete with gingerbread walls, overhanging roof and chimney, edible Christmas confetti and royal icing in a piping tube. The perfect way to get the whole family involved in a fun, and tasty Christmas tradition.
New to town this holiday season is Little Kits. The “sweetly inspired, sensory play,” cookie kits will introduce your children to kitchen skills, and give them a chance to use their imagination. Founded by owner and creator of Happy Hannah Cakes, Sarah Stanley specializes in allergy friendly baking.
Little Kits is a great way for small children to use their imagination, creativity, motor skills, and learn kitchen elements.
Sarah Stanley, founder and creator of Little Kits
All Little Kits cookies are considered top nine free, making them gluten free, vegan, soy free, and nut free. The sprinkles are hand dyed, using plant based ingredients like turmeric, red radish, beet, spiralina, and cabbage. Stanley even makes her own baking powder.
A single cookie kit, includes a minimum of six cookies for $45. You can plan a cookie party starting at $100 or order a monthly membership for $39, or an annual membership for $429, with one month free. All memberships include different themes for each season and time of year, free delivery in Jackson and free shipping.
Each Single Cookie Kit Includes:
- Six to 10 baked homemade allergen free cookies, in a variety of seasonal cutouts, like angels, bells, Christmas trees, gingerbread men, stars, and Hanukkah shapes are available as well.
- Two containers of organic homemade frosting
- Three containers of plant derived colored decorating sugar or sprinkles
You can have your cookie and eat it too!
Sarah Stanley
Photo: Jay Nel-McIntosh
These cookie kits are the answer to an easy setup, and an even easier cleanup, leaving extra time to shop at Mursell’s in Gaslight Alley for goodies like advent calendars, baking decorations, a variety of holiday sprinkles, and hot cocoa flavors, to add to the indoor fun.
We have quite a few fun hot cocoas and marshmallow toppers for mugs. Pez are always a fan favorite, and we have holiday ones.
Sara Nicholson, manager of Mursell’s
And when it’s time for fresh air and to work off some of those cookies, bundle up and head to Snow King Mountain for an afternoon of fun. Snow King Mountain opened last weekend for its 82nd season. The Cougar Lift is up and running as well as the magic carpet, perfect for beginners and teaching the kiddos their first ski lessons. King Tubes will be open by Dec. 12, and the Cowboy Coaster and Summit Lift by Dec. 19. Fire pits can be reserved by the hour complete with hot chocolate and s’mores fixings. Please do not exceed the current gathering limits set by state and county health departments.
