The Beginner's Guide to Cookie Decorating: Easy Techniques and Expert Tips for Designing and Icing Colorful Treats
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!
"1140503686"
The Beginner's Guide to Cookie Decorating: Easy Techniques and Expert Tips for Designing and Icing Colorful Treats
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!
24.99 In Stock
The Beginner's Guide to Cookie Decorating: Easy Techniques and Expert Tips for Designing and Icing Colorful Treats

The Beginner's Guide to Cookie Decorating: Easy Techniques and Expert Tips for Designing and Icing Colorful Treats

by Mary Valentino
The Beginner's Guide to Cookie Decorating: Easy Techniques and Expert Tips for Designing and Icing Colorful Treats

The Beginner's Guide to Cookie Decorating: Easy Techniques and Expert Tips for Designing and Icing Colorful Treats

by Mary Valentino

Paperback

$24.99 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780760374436
Publisher: Quarry Books
Publication date: 07/12/2022
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 903,637
Product dimensions: 8.45(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Mary Valentino is a professional cookie baker and decorator who began her baking and decorating journey eight years ago as a creative outlet. As she began posting her creations on Facebook, she started to get orders for custom cookies—and more orders, and more orders. She soon realized that her expertly decorated cookies were a hit and, with her husband, decided to make cookie baking and decorating a full-time endeavor.

The business, Emma’s Sweets (named after her daughter) includes an online retail site selling an exclusive line of cookie cutters, other cookie-making supplies, and her own recipes. Mary won an episode of the Food Network’s “Christmas Cookie Challenge,” and she teaches in-person and online workshops. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

Instagram: @_emmas__sweets
YouTube: Emma’s Sweets
Website: emmassweets.ca

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 Baking Basics 9

Tools for Baking 10

Cookie Recipes 12

2 Decorating Basics 25

Decorating Tools 26

Specialty Ingredients 28

Royal Icing Recipe 34

Storing Royal Icing and Iced Cookies 35

Coloring Icing 37

Royal Icing Consistencies 43

Tools for Icing 48

Icing Cookies 52

Wet-on-Wet Icing Technique 58

Royal Icing Transfers 61

Basketweave 63

Hand Painting 66

Brushed Embroidery 70

Royal Icing Flowers 73

Fondant Accents with Silicone Molds 82

3 Seasonal Cookies 85

Winter Cookies 86

Snowflake 86

Knitted Mittens and Pom-Pom Hat 89

Snowman 93

Snowy Tree 96

Spring Cookies 98

Bunny with Floral Crown 98

Carrot 101

Bird 103

Flower with Leaves 105

Flower Basket 107

Summer Cookies 110

Surfboard 110

Hawaiian Shirt 112

Flip-Flops 114

Bathing Suit 116

Beach and Shells 117

Starfish 120

Fall Cookies 122

Leafy Branch 122

Rustic Wreath 124

Sunflower 127

Sugar Skull 130

Ghost 134

4 Celebration Cookies 137

Mother's Day Bouquet 138

Father's Day Hamburger 144

Wedding/Anniversary Cake 148

Bonus Projects: Repurposing Cookie Cutters 151

Elephant 151

Santa Claus 153

Resources 156

Acknowledgments 156

About the Author 157

Index 158

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews