Cookie Decorating Parties - December 2015

 We decorated ugly sweater cookies at the December party.  This was one of my favorites!  So much room for creativity with these!

As always, they did a great job!  It never surprises me, though it does seem to surprise some of them!

Cookie decorating parties for adults are held once a month, on Saturdays, 6 - 8 pm, in Middletown, MD (just outside of Frederick).

For more information on parties, to register, or to schedule your own private party, please visit my website. 

In the Press - Food Network Magazine

 Food Network Magazine - December 2015

Well this was exciting!  I was contacted by Food Network Magazine and asked to make cookies that represent Maryland at Christmas time.  The cookies had to be on 4" rounds.  I was to make two different designs, sending 6 of each.

I decided on Santa crabs with two different backgrounds.

Here he is at the beach......

And here he is with part of the Maryland flag behind him.....

They ended up choosing the beach scene to publish.

The feature was entitled "Sugar Cookie USA".  There was one cookie representing each state.  The cookies were amazing!  You can see all of them here.

My five minutes of fame.  :)

Cookies are available for order through my website.

Christmas Cookies 2014

Christmas Sugar Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

So here's what I've worked on for this Christmas!

25 gift boxes- each with 6 snowmen and 6 snowman faces.....

Rudolph love!  Big ol' hearts for noses....

More Rudolphs.  The side-view is a new cutter for me this year.  I have a love/hate relationship with this guy.  Love the look.  Hated getting the dough out of cutter.  The antlers fought me.

Christmas cupcakes....

Stockings.  I love wet-on-wet for stockings.  So fun and such pretty results.....

Christmas Trees....sprinkles, decorated, snow covered.  A lovely Christmas forest.......

Personalized Snowmen as a corporate thank you gift.....

Personalized stockings for a family.....

Snowman Love!  More hearts.  The heart sprinkles are new so I had to use them!  I thought they'd be cute on snowmen......

But I got a little carried away.  Hearts as cute rosy cheeks?  Nope.....

Santa...I love that big ol' Santa.  He's a new cutter this year.....

Hedgehogs and Stockings.  No, those are not porcupines.  At least they're not supposed to be.  :)

They were to go along with a gift of The Mitten to some pre-schoolers. This photo was sent to me......

When thinking about the design for the hedgehogs, I thought that chocolate jimmies would work perfectly.  Not.  Looks like a hot mess......

I made lots of cookie pops this year.  Christmas tree pops.....

Santa's Mustache pops....

Stocking pops.....

Here are just some of the Christmas cookies.......

Shew!  What a great cookie month!

Cookie Decorating Demonstration

Cookie Decorating Demo in Frederick, MD

I had the pleasure of doing a cookie demo at D'Accord Boutique in Frederick.  It was so much fun!  I had a nice little audience coming and going through the shop.  And what a cute shop it is!  If you're ever in downtown Frederick or in Sherperdstown, WV, you have to stop by.  They sell the most beautiful treasures from France - gorgeous table linens, pottery, kitchen items.....and Ann Clark cookie cutters!  These are the Christmas cutters I used for the demo.....

And here I am demonstrating how to flood cookies with royal icing.....

After two hours, here's what I had completed.....

I would love to do more demos!

Cookie Decorating Class for Beginners - December 2013

We had another fabulous class!

We worked on really fun marbling techniques on Christmas ornaments.

Making royal icing......

Making icing bullets......

I wish I had more pictures!  Some of the students' work would have been nice.  I'll be sure to do that next time.

Speaking of next time........My next class is scheduled for Thursday, February 6, 2014, 6:30 - 9:30 pm at The Kitchen Studio in Frederick, Maryland.  It's a beginner decorating class.  We'll be working on these Valentine's Day cookies.  I'll be showing a few different ways to decorate the same shape.  You can sign up here.

December 2013 Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

There was a whole lot of cookie making throughout December!  How about a re-cap of the month?

Personalized stocking and mini holly cookies.  Mini Christmas tree cupcake toppers.  These little guys are on sticks to decorate cupcakes.

Here are the stockings and holly leaves in their favor bags....

This is something I've wanted to revisit since I first started cookieing.  Do you remember those games where you had to roll the balls into the holes or through a maze?  This is it in cookie form.  Back in January of 2012, I made some "game cookies".  Yes, they're awful.  It wasn't until I recently saw this video by Montreal Confections that my biggest dilemma was solved.  I thought that I needed a container to hold in the sugar pearls.  MC piped an icing border to contain everything then put the cookies in favor bags.  Brilliant!  So here's my newest version.....

Onto traditional Christmas shapes....Candy canes, snowflakes, holly leaves, cupcakes, ornaments, light bulbs, and of course Mr and Mrs Claus.  I made a whoooooole lot of these this month!

The Mrs is a new one this year and my favorite!  I pretty much combined two different designs that I saw online....One from Sugarbelle and one from Make Me, Cake Me.  I love them both!

And onto personalized snowmen and some mini snowflakes....

Snowman heads and mini flakes.....

all bagged up for favors too....

It was a busy cookie month!  I hope you enjoyed a lovely Christmas!