Sandwich Cookie Ornament

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Regular price $13.95

Great Holiday Gift
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There's No Such Thing as Just One Ornament

Pick a favorite. Then accept that "just one" was never really an option.

A cookie ornament settles an argument nobody asked to have, and this one — a hand-blown glass sandwich cookie, two chocolate wafers and the cream between them — settles it beautifully. The glass is mouth-blown over an open flame, the wafer texture and cream line are hand-painted, and the whole thing hangs from a standard hook like it has nothing left to prove. There are two kinds of people, and the sandwich cookie has always known which kind you are. The twisters, who separate the halves with surgical precision, eat the filling first, and consider this the correct approach. And the biters, who eat it whole and find the twisters slightly exhausting. Both are wrong about the other. Both are completely right about themselves. Someone in your life has explained their methodology to a person who did not ask. This is theirs. If TIFF ever programs a documentary about that argument, we would like this ornament considered for the poster.

Product Detail
  • Material: Glass
  • Composition: Hand-blown borosilicate glass
  • Finish: Hand painted
  • Hardware: pre-strung with a minimalist cord
  • Year Designed: 2024
Dimensions
  • 2.36 inches long, 0.91 inches wide, 2.56 inches tall
Ornament Care Instruction

Remember, treat these ornaments like you would a friendship with someone who brings good wine: gently. Keep them in a safe spot when not in use, avoid introducing them to toddlers or cats, and they'll be around for many holidays to come.

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  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 7 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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The Story Behind This Ornament

My aunt twisted. I need you to understand the degree to which she twisted: two hands, a rotation as controlled as a safecracker's, the top wafer lifted away and inspected for cream retention like a core sample. She scraped the filling with her lower teeth, set the naked wafers down, and ate them separately, later, sometimes in another room. She did this at funerals. My uncle, married to her for fifty-one years, bit straight through like a man with nothing to hide, and I genuinely believe the marriage worked because neither of them ever once commented on the other's technique. That is love: watching someone dismantle a cookie incorrectly for five decades and holding your peace. We put the cookie on the tree because the tree is where a family hangs its actual history — not the milestones, the habits. The cream line is painted on by hand, thick enough to see from the couch, and every person who walks past it will tell you, without being asked, which kind of person they are. Nobody has ever answered that question with indifference. Hang it and take notes. You will learn more about your relatives in one December than in the previous ten years of holidays combined.

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Care Tips

Storage Do’s and Don’ts:

(Because Yes, They’re Fragile)

  • Do wrap each ornament individually in soft tissue paper, bubble wrap, or a gentle cloth. (No, shoving them in a shoebox with tinsel does not count.)
  • Don’t let them clink around in a box together. That’s a recipe for heartbreak and glittery shards.
  • Do store them in a sturdy container (plastic bins with dividers = chef’s kiss) and keep it in a cool, dry place — no attics or sketchy basements, please.

Pro Tip: Label the box like your life depends on it.

Write it on every side, not just the top, since nobody unloading a truck reads the top first. If you're storing these for next year, do future you a favor and note what's inside beyond just "ornaments." A little specificity now saves a lot of bubble wrap archaeology in eleven months.

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Hand-painted glass rewards the close look, and every Chive ornament is made to be inspected at arm's length — the distance where trees are actually enjoyed. Guests see the cookie and declare a methodology — twist or bite, no abstentions in fifteen years. Find more glass that makes people confess in the food and drink ornament collection.

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About Chive Studio

Since 2004, Chive Studio has operated on one belief: the objects people love hardest are the ones that admit something true about them. We spend most of the year designing ceramic flowers, planters, vases, and packets of seeds, and when winter arrives we turn to glass ornaments about food loyalty, dog worship, and cookie methodology — subjects the traditional ornament industry has neglected for roughly two centuries. Everything here is our own design, handmade the slow way, built to survive decades of Decembers and at least one toddler era. We build the ornament people look for first when the box comes down from the attic, the one with a story attached. The angels can have the other trees. They have plenty.


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Sweet Nostalgia

The oreo cookie ornament is genius. It looks so real, I had to do a double take. Adds a playful and sweet vibe to our holiday decor. Everyone comments on it!

Frequently asked questions

Do you have a cookie ornament for the christmas tree?

Yes — the Sandwich Cookie ornament is a hand-blown glass cookie made for the tree, with both wafers and the cream line painted on. It hangs from any standard ornament hook and starts arguments from a considerable distance, usually before the eggnog is even poured. We consider both of those features. They were both intentional.

Would the Sandwich Cookie ornament win a white elephant exchange?

Dangerously good — because the moment it is unwrapped, the twist-or-bite argument starts, and white elephant games do not survive a room dividing into methodology camps. Play stops. Positions get declared. Somebody's marriage is briefly examined. The cookie does not win white elephant so much as adjourn it. Bring it if you enjoy consequences.

Is the Sandwich Cookie ornament a good gift for coworkers?

Yes, and specifically for the coworker whose desk snack drawer is an open office secret. It is affectionate without getting personal, funny without needing the punchline explained in the break room, and it looks like genuine thought at a modest price. Office gifting is a minefield of wrong notes. This is one of the safe squares.

Is the Sandwich Cookie ornament made of real blown glass?

Yes — real hand-blown glass, shaped over an open flame, with the wafer texture and the cream line painted by hand before the cap goes on. It is not molded plastic doing an impression of craft. You can tell by the weight in your palm, the way you can tell a real cookie from a diet one. The glass version keeps considerably longer.

How big is the Sandwich Cookie ornament on the tree?

It measures 2.36 inches long, 0.91 inches wide, and 2.56 inches tall — which is roughly true to life, and that was entirely the point. A cookie the size of a hubcap stops being funny and starts being a prop. This one reads as exactly what it is. Scale is the joke's straight man.

How do I safely pack away the Sandwich Cookie ornament?

Keep the box it came in and return the cookie there each January, wrapped in its original tissue, stored somewhere stable and dry. Hand-painted glass survives for decades when it is stored deliberately and about one house move when it is not. The ornament graveyard is a shoebox full of regret. Do not contribute to it.

Do you have more food and drink ornaments like the Sandwich Cookie?

Plenty — the Sandwich Cookie hangs in a full food and drink ornament collection alongside cupcakes, hot dogs, and a gin bottle for grown-up balance. A tree can absolutely serve a complete menu, appetizers straight through to the nightcap, and the households that commit to it never go back. Yours is now one dessert closer. Start there.

Is the Sandwich Cookie ornament packaged ready for gifting?

It arrives packed for safe transit — protective shipping materials rather than a gift box, so the presentation step belongs to you. The cookie is small and compact, which makes it one of the easiest things you will wrap all December. Two minutes, one square of paper, entirely done. The reveal does the rest.

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