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Elegant Cameo Cookie
3 dimensional royal icing or pressure piping is an awesome method to customize you cookie and/or cake designs. There are several cameo moulds on the market, however they are available to everyone. If you design your own cameo it now becomes a one of a kind. Special...
Piped Cherry Blossom Tree Cookies
Washington D.C 's Cherry blossoms are huge tourist attraction. D.C. hosts a national Cherry Blossom Festival every year. To honor my daughter's commencement from, The George Washington University, (on national mall). I created royal icing cherry blossoms on a cherry...
Marie Antoinette Cookie- 5th Avenue Cake Designs
I love haute couture inspired cakes and cookies; what better time period than the 18th century Versailles. During Marie Antoinette’s regime fashion was a means to control the king and queen’s court, “to keep the potentially dangerous aristocracy in-check.” In the...
Enchanting Brush Embroidery Sugar Cookie Plaque
I adore the little plaque cookies they are extremely versatile, and what better cake decorating technique than tone on tone brush embroidery? The finished design is elegantly suitable for hanging (except that it is edible). The plaque cookies are show stopping gift,...
Elegant Scroll Royal Icing Scrolls on a Sugar Cookie
Royal icing decorative scrolls always grab your attention. Decorating dainty scrolls can transform any ordinary cookie or cake into a show stopping piece. This simple circle shape cookie has a new presence once the scrolls have been piped. Royal icing is the one...
Lemon Meringue Tart Transformed into a Cookie
Bobbie Bakes at 5th Avenue Cake Designs shared this enchanting lemon pie/tart tutorial. Just looking at the photos enticed my tastebuds, with those adorable royal icing blueberries, charming lemon slices decoratively placed on the meringue and encompassed with an...
Learn the Secrets to Painting Flowers on Icing
Edible painting is a wonderful cake decorating technique, that can be a relaxing artistic expression for clients and friends. However several of my readers have contacted me to let me know they are frustrated and although they think hand painted cookies (cakes are...
Easter Basket with Royal Icing Needle Point
Needlepoint royal icing piping is a unique technique to take your sugar cookies or cakes (even cupcakes) to the next level. I adore the intricate piping skills that can be achieved with a cornet and nozzle. Although piping a needlepoint pattern onto a sugar cookie or...
Fondant and Royal Icing Frill Sugar Cookies for Easter
Easter is just around the corner and every year I create special Easter baskets filled with custom cookies,candies, and other treats. I found this large egg cookie cutter and visioned an exquisite frilled sugar cookie with a light ombre effect. After applying the...
Brush Embroidery Tutorial
I thought it might be fun to learn a new method of brush embroidery..Victorian brush embroidery. Although the name sounds fancy the technique to create victorian brush embroidery is quite simple. Victorian brush embroidery generally is applied with two colours of...
Super Bowl XLVIII Game Time Treats
Tomorrow at 4:30 kick off will begin for Super Bowl XLVIII. Payton Manning and Russell Wilson will be face to face in New Jersey at the MetLife stadium (freezing there tush off). Unlike Super Bowl I, where The Green Bay Packer's quarterback Bart Starr and The Kanas...
New Year’s Haute Couture Cookies
Nicolas Jebran's designs are cutting edge yet classic; his dresses flow with movement. Sydney and I were looking at his Winter 2014 collection when we both were drawn to the same dress, although neither Sydney nor I can purchase the dress for New Year's Eve we can...