Homemade Pizza Dough
Yum Oh no . . . it’s here again. I always try to slither out of it, but it finds me, every day– the dreaded 4:00 hour. You know what I mean . . . that time when you finally…
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Author Archive: Emilie
How to Make Your Own Stencils
When I first got my airbrush, I spent hours drooling over all the fancy stencils I could buy to use with my cookies. Even before I got my airbrush, I drooled over the stencils I could use for stenciling on…
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Custom Cookies without Special Cutters
I have a very nice little (OK . . . BIG) cookie cutter collection. I have enjoyed assembling it over time– a vintage cutter here, as I imagine the grandmotherly hands that used it to create Christmas cookies in years…
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Cranberry Pecan Biscotti
I once entered a contest for a free set of measuring cups. We had to write an entry telling why we felt we deserved to win a new set of measuring cups. I wrote in that my measuring cups “looked…
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How to Stencil Cookies
How to Stencil Cookies If you’re like me, you have probably looked enviously at those gorgeous Pinterest pictures of immaculate, airbrushed sugar cookies. You tried not to be envious . . . but it was hard. How in the world…
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Quickest Cookies Ever
There are some things in life I just don’t understand. Putting salt on watermelon. A Porsche minivan. How a TV can get 300 channels, and I still can’t find anything to watch.But anyway . . . (throat clearing), there is…
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Beautiful Wedding Cookies
Photo by Jill Lang We just went through June, and ’tis the season for all things wedding!!! I have had multiple requests from friends for wedding cookie ideas, and I’ve been thinking. Those thoughts have been cooking on the back…
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Double Duty Cookie Cutters
I’m sure, if you have even more than dipped a cautious toe into the exciting world of cookie decorating, you have, at some point, reached that roadblock that so many of us face: “That is so cute, but I…
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Jill, beautiful Jill
There are some things in life that just make a normal day so much sweeter . . . finding a parking spot miraculously in front of the parking lot, discovering a pile of sale clothing and– Eureka!– the very…
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Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yum Have you ever heard of Captain William Kidd? His story is a crazy and thrilling one– awash in mystery, intrigue, and dastardly deeds. In the late 1600s, William Kidd was a respectable English admiral, sailing on behalf of the…
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