What would you choose for dessert; a sugar cookie or a slice of chocolate cake? If you're anything like me and those two items were in your home, the sugar cookies would be hanging around long after the chocolate cake was polished off.
Don't get me wrong, I do like sugar cookies, but love them... ...
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Decorated Christmas Cookies
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Ideas for cookies can be found anywhere. Ribbon and stickers are one of my favorite sources, but occasionally inspiration comes in an unusual form.
Like this decorative bucket:
These Christmas cookies were easy to make... simple shapes make decorating go so much faster!
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Gingerbread Toy Shop
If you're looking for gingerbread house inspiration, I can't tell you how awesome Teresa Layman's books are. I've only mentioned her a kazillion times already.
I copied her Gingerbread Toy Shop back in 2003 and ended up raffling it off at the school I work at.
Our principal won it. Fair and ...
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Winner of Cookie Craft Christmas Giveaway!
My mouth was watering with all the delicious, decadent food favorites you left in the comment section. Thanks to you I now know what buckeyes and Pandoro are, and I was reminded of so many things I want to try again.... hot cider, fudge, ALL kinds of cookies, egg nog, Stollen and... well, you get ...
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How to Ship Decorated Cookies and Cookie Craft Giveaway!
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You put oodles of time and love into making decorated cookies for friends, family or children, send the cookies on their merry way via snail mail, only to have them arrive in a broken mess!
Has this ever happened to you?
I don't have a picture of the ruins to share with you, but it has ...
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How to do Royal Icing Flood Work or Runouts
I'm fairly new to making cakes, so wanted to combine my inexperience with them with something I know a bit more about; flooding with royal icing.
I ended up with this simple fondant-covered Christmas cake design:
You don't want to see the edges of this cake at the back; who knew that covering a ...
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