The Beginner’s Guide to Cookie Decorating shows how easy it is to make beginner-friendly, beautifully decorated cookies like the pros using easy techniques for icing, coloring, and designing. Discover the latest tips, tricks, and recipes from top cookie decorator Mary Valentino of Emma’s Sweets.

You’re inspired by the cookie decorating trend on TV and social media, but how can you find your way through the maze of information out there? You turn to The Beginner’s Guide to Cookie Decorating. In this comprehensive guide, Mary Valentino of Emma’s Sweets, a winner of the Food Network’s “Christmas Cookie Challenge,” reveals her latest and greatest easy techniques and designs that are perfect for beginner hobbyists. Everything is included to help you advance your cookie-decorating skills, including information on basic supplies and upgrades, choosing and using color, tasty cookie and icing recipes, and an array of cookie designs: vivid flowers, adorable animals, cute clothing, seasonal motifs, and much more. She also shares the most up-to-date simple techniques for creating wow effects, including easy hand painting, embellishing, piping, color blocking, sparkly effects, and using molds. Watch your budding embellishment skills blossom with these ideas and inspiration: Professional-looking cookie designs for every season and occasion How to mix colors and create appealing palettes Techniques and troubleshooting tips for getting the perfect icing consistency every time No-fail, delicious cookie and icing recipes How to get the most out of cookie cutters How to achieve dimensional and texture effects that make cookies pop Let cookie decorating star Mary Valentino show you how simple it is to create amazing cookies that taste as good as they look!

The Complete Photo Guide to Cookie Decorating is the ultimate reference for all methods of cookie decorating—a comprehensive guide for crafters and aspiring sugar artists. In just a few minutes, a cookie can be transformed from a simple shape into a colorful, edible work of art. With some basic skills and a little practice, everyone from kids to adults can enjoy this fun craft. Expert sugar artist and author of The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating, Autumn Carpenter, helps you learn these skills and become a confident cookie decorator through step-by-step directions, 400 full-color photos, and invaluable decorating tips and tricks. The clear organization provides easy access to information, simple projects provide fun opportunities for trying the techniques, and a gallery of beautifully decorated cookies offers examples and inspiration. You’ll find: Recipes and helpful tips for rolling, cutting, and baking perfect cookies Recipes for various icings–buttercream, chocolate, run sugar, egg wash, and rolled fondant Detailed instructions for piping, painting, marbling, and coating plus ways to add shimmer, sparkle, and special accents Great ideas for packaging, storing, and presenting your decorated cookies For those who might be a bit intimidated by the idea of decorating cookies, fear not! With this guide and some experimentation, anyone, from knowledgeable baker to amateur home cooks, can create this edible art. The Complete Photo Guide series includes all the instruction you need to pursue your creative passion. With hundreds of clear photos, detailed step-by-step directions, handy tips, and inspirational ideas, it’s easy and fun to try new projects and techniques and take your skills to the next level.

Create Show-Stopping Cookies Using Simple Royal Icing Techniques The Crafted Cookie is a beginner cookie artist’s dream come true. Through countless courses and videos, Anne Yorks has taught thousands of home bakers how to make cookie decorating simple and fun. Here, she covers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about creating cute and whimsical cookies that taste as good as they look. With accessible step-by-step tutorials for 50 creative designs arranged into themed platters, cookie artists of all skill levels will have plenty of inspiration for celebrating all year long. No more stressing over the intricacies of royal icing. Anne shares her best tips for royal icing, from coloring it to getting the right consistencies for piping and flooding and even how to store it. What’s more, she includes her foolproof base recipe for delicious, easy and incredibly versatile sugar cookies. These are just some of the gorgeous platters offered: - Rainbow Birthday featuring a colorful Rainbow Cake with Candles Cookie - Classic Christmas Faces complete with a Jolly Santa, an Elf and a Red-Nosed Reindeer - Give Thanks featuring a stunning lettered “Give Thanks” Wreath Cookie - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Baby Shower with a cute Sweet Dreams Footie Pajama Cookie - Farmhouse Easter including a sweet Farm Fresh Easter Eggs Barn Cookie This is the only book you’ll need to master the art of decorating stunning cookie after cookie. You’ll have as much fun designing them as you will sharing and devouring them.

In Cookie Art, superstar cookie decorator Amber Spiegel teaches you to create over 30 designs to turn even the most ordinary cookie into something amazing. These stunning projects reinforce and sharpen your skills to help you make any cookie a work of art.

Presents over sixty cookie-decorating designs for any occasion, from springtime daisies to spider webs, and includes recipes for cookie doughs and tips on decorating techniques.

Learning to make and decorate cakes that are as beautiful as they are delicious can be a challenge, but with the expert guidance of renowned confectionery artist Autumn Carpenter in First Time Cake Decorating, your goal is within reach. Like having your very own cake decorating instructor at your side, First Time Cake Decorating guides you expertly through the process, from baking and prepping your first cake through a range of decorating techniques, from essential piping techniques for creating borders, writing, and flowers to working with gum paste and fondant to make stunning daisies, roses, lilies, and more. There’s a first time for everything. Enjoy the journey and achieve success with First Time Cake Decorating!