Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Learning to Decorate Fancy Sugar Cookies I still remember the first time I was scrolling through Pinterest and saw . . . THEM. I will never forget those first, fancy sugar cookies I saw– Santa Claus cookies with sparkling sugar…
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Vintage Pyrex Cookies If you have been on my site for any length of time, you know there are 2 great loves in my life: cookies and Vintage Pyrex. When I’m not baking, I’m prowling flea markets and thrift…
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I haven’t been doing as many cookies, lately. There’s a reason for this. I’ve been working on 360 wedding cookies for a good friend I’ve had for 25 years. The wedding cookies have taken most of my baking time, but…
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It’s happened to the best of us– we need a specific color for one simple thing– say, pink for making a few lips on Valentine’s cookies . . . and then we end up with just a squidge left of pink…
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Look at that sweet little cookie bouquet. Imagine your daughter’s birthday party, with arrangements like this along the table. Do double duty with décor and snacks. Yessss. Today, I’m going to show you show to make cookie pop arrangements, like…
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Photo by Jill Lang My Grandpa used to joke that, when his siblings and he were asked where their parents were, they would answer, “I don’t know where Ma is, but Pop’s in the cooler.” Perhaps you need to have…
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I am in love with reclaimed barn wood. I love to run my fingers over it– the ridges turned smooth from years of protecting its contents from lashing winds and driving snows. Sometimes the paint tells a story, too– you…
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Photo by Jill Lang When you start the hobby of decorating cookies, it doesn’t take long to realize two things: (1) your cookie cutter collection takes up a lot of space, and (2) you always seem to need a cutter…
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One of the most fun things about learning to make sugar cookies is learning all the cool things that royal icing can do. This stuff really is a versatile little guy– you can make anything from 3D gazebos to those…
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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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