sugar cookies

Tutorial on my Spider web cookies

These are orange-flavored sugar cookies decorated with black fondant and hand painted white spider webs. Very easy to make and fun. For step-by-step instructions, please check out the photo...

Basketball Hoop Cookie

*I hope you find this simple tutorial helpful. For my sugar cookie dough I use this recipe:* BLUE RIBBON SUGAR COOKIES Preparation time: 45 min Baking time: 7 min Yield: 6 dozen...

Learn the secrets how to make a flowerpaste asian ground orchid

For quite sometime I have been waiting to create a bamboo framed sugar cookie with Spathoglottis orchids, better known as Asian Ground Orchids. I had promised Sydney I would wait for her to...

Santa Claus Cupcake Fun!

I was asked to design Santa Claus cupcakes for a client’s office party, as luck would have it Sydney was home for Thanksgiving break. I must admit it was exhilarating to be baking along side...

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...

Candle Lights Learn Scroll Piping

I have been wanting to create a tutorial on the art of scroll piping with royal icing. It is easier to learn on a sugar cookie prior to an entire cake, piping an entire cake can take hours...

Sugar Christmas Tree

I just had to share this fun and life-like Christmas tree piped with royal icing (including the ornaments)! Literally the entire tree including the drying time in between the leaves and the...

Learn Designer Fondant Ruching on a Sugar Cookie

Fondant fabric techniques have become brilliantly popular in the past few years and ruching is no exception. Ruching is a French term which means to gather, ruffle, or pleat; the term is a...

Medusa Hand Painted Sugar Cookie

Witches, bats, ghosts, and skulls seem to be the theme everywhere, especial on cookies, cakes, and cupcakes during the month of October (due to Halloween). Although they are scary and fun to...

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,...