Share the Ideas & Inspiration Yes, made from scratch baked good are the best – BUT, there are times you need a quick fix and a mix does the job. But, I have found tweaking the mix a little gives a homemade taste. I do this with making brownies. Adding 3 extra ingredients creates the…
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Decorate Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies
Share the Ideas & Inspiration Here’s three adorable bunny rabbit sugar cookies to decorate. Simple decorating makes sweet smiles for you Easter or spring events. Have hoppin’ fun! All you need: Sugar Cookies (see Recipe below) Royal Icing (see recipe link below) Candies Decorating bag or ziploc bag Toothpick Food color gels Sanding…
Decorate Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
Share the Ideas & Inspiration It is always fun to decorate and bake with kids. My friends daughter Kinley (age 8) joined me in filming and decorating a variety of spring inspired sugar cookies. Here are three ideas for you. All you need are: sugar cookies (recipe below) royal icing (recipe below) food gel colors…
Perfect Sugar Cookies for Decorating
Share the Ideas & Inspiration Cookie decorators are artists. I am in awe of the handiwork of many of my favorite decorators. As a sorta-good decorator I want a perfect canvas for my artwork. I have tried many cookie recipes to get the perfect flat and dense surface to decorate. After trial and error, THIS…
Beautiful Heart Sugar Cookie
Share the Ideas & Inspiration I love this technique. It looks challenging but the secret is using a toothpick. Watch my video tutorial to see how easy it is. You can use a variety of colors for the lines or even just use one color – which I have done before and it turns out…
Valentines Heart Cookie Decorating
Share the Ideas & InspirationAs a cookie decorator I like to work with a limited number of colors but create different designs. In designing these Valentine cookies I only used red and pink color. Yet, all the designs are diverse and yet blend well with the others. This helps make a beautiful presentation when you…
Winter Cable Knit Mitten Sugar Cookies
Share the Ideas & Inspiration I love learning new techniques in cookie decorating. This is my first attempt to creating the knitted look on a cookie. Of course, I wanted to make it a winter mitten. I love the all white look of the mittens which highlights the details of the knitted mitten. I hope…
Glossy Royal Icing for Cookie Decorating
Share the Ideas & Inspiration As a cookie decorator I want to get a beautiful look to my cookies. To do this I use a variety of cookie icing recipes. But, by far my most popular and most used recipe is this one. Why? This glossy icing dries with a nice shine which shows off…
Jill’s Sugar Cookie Recipe
Share the Ideas & Inspiration As a decorator I have tried dozens of cookie recipes to get the perfect sugar cookie for decorating. After years of tweaking, this is it. This recipe makes a sturdy and flat cookie to create a wonderful decorating surface. Although I use vanilla and almond extract, you can add any…
Christmas Heart Sugar Cookies
Share the Ideas & InspirationI loved creating different Christmas designs using a heart cookie cutter. Enjoy the two video tutorials. Sugar Cookie Recipe (printable recipe below) Ingredients: 2 sticks salted butter (no margarine) 1 Cup granulated sugar 1 egg 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon almond extract (other extracts are…