Creative food craft ideas
Sweetopia is always a great resource for cookie decorating tips, like these 10 tips for setting up your cookie decorating area. The tips and suggestions are smack dab right on, too (it’s as though she’s describing my very own cookie decorating corner).
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One of my new favorite blogs, Not So Humble Pie, has done a fabulous job rounding up science-themed cookie ideas. See the post HERE. (The circuit boards shown are the blogger’s very own.)
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Visit Sweetopia for a fabulous tutorial on applying edible disco dust
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Find the how-tos HERE. (As well as a super-cute cookie snowman tutorial to boot.)
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Oooohhh, whatta great prize this is. Or maybe I’m just drooling on my computer because my life is devoted mostly to cookies. In honor of their new book, The Cookie Exchange
, the baking giants at Wilton are donating not only the book but a whole lot of cookie decorating goodies to a lucky reader of CakeSpy. Find the contest … Read More ...
Family Fun has a collection of kid-friendly sweets for fall and Thanksgiving HERE including these “corn” cookies.
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How crazy precious are these puppy cookies from Cookin Up Crafty Fun? Find the how-tos HERE, found via EpiCute.
Check out our Dog Bone Cookie cutters and molds in our Cooking and Baking Store
I also highly recommend this baking for dogs cookbook
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View great step-by-step photos to bake and decorate these Halloween cobweb cookies HERE at zoom yummy.
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Our basic and quick Sugar Cookie Recipe is perfect for rolled out cookie-cutter cookies, I have been using this recipe for years and it is my go-to recipe for Cookie cutters cookies.
CraftGossip Sugar Cookie Recipe
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I think that in my decade of cookie decorating work, I’ve made about 5000 cookies decorated as roses. And that’s not a dramatic estimate (Valentine’s Day at the store made up most of those)… Yet Bake at 350 still managed to pique my interest with these beautiful rose cookies. I just love them. Find the decorating instructions HERE.
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As one who has devoted over a decade to cookie decorating (and teaching others to decorate cookies), I fully appreciate the well-constructed, beautifully photographed tutorial on flooding found HERE at Sweetopia. Beginners and experts alike will find this lovely guide informative.
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Flickr, for those of you who don’t know, is a photo sharing web site. And yet it’s so much more than a photo sharing web site. Learn how to decorate Frankenstein cookies with a fondant flooding technique through step-by-step photographs HERE, through the flickr group, The Fondant.com Club. And see the entire photostream for fondant.com HERE, including … Read More ...
It’s that time of year again… I remember as a kid being so depressed to walk into the mall in August and see all the wool and plaid and signs for back-to-school clothes. Now that I’m a grown-up I eagerly anticipate the arrival of Fall, my favorite season, though I do feel I’m betraying my earlier self. Well, I saw … Read More ...
Wilton.com always has a wealth of sweet cake, cookie, candy and brownie ideas, but I have to admit, I was still blown away by this idea. Find the how-tos for crafting this family tree cake HERE.
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Find a lovely (and detailed) buttterfly cookie tutorial HERE at the also-lovely Sweetopia. The blogger also has a lovely list of lovely links and references (and I’m not just saying that cuz I’m in the links). Really. Very lovely. And as cookie decorating occupies a huge portion of my existence, and after spending ten years offering/writing tutorials and instructions … Read More ...
Find the how-tos for creating these cupcake and cookie burger and fries at Bakerella. You can also download templates for the container and fry baggies. Too cute… I’ve made these burgers before. I think they were originally from Clare Crespo’s Hey There Cupcake book. (Side note: a great site to check out, Clare Crespo’s Yummy Fun.)… Read More ...
Visit meals at home for how-tos on creating your own, natural, tinted icing from veggie and fruit juices HERE. As a cookie decorator, I’m afraid natural tints as these won’t meet every need I have for super-intricate designs (I simply must use the fake stuff for the vibrancy of Elvis’s sparkly jump suit), but I love this idea. So … Read More ...