Live Online Classes - Cookies as Business

Well hello!  It's been . . . years? . . . since my last post.  I'm still here making cookies for special occasions, and hosting cookie decorating parties and classes.

I'm dusting off the old blog to tell you that I've started something new!  I'm now offering live, online classes on Cookies as Business. 

There are tons of videos and tutorials online and plenty of real-life classes about how to decorate cookies.  There aren't a lot of resources on the business side.  That's where I come in!

I taught on this subject at Cookie Con 2015.  Now I've expanded it into several topics so that we can get into the details. Because the classes are held online, you can join me from anywhere!

I've had a successful cookie business since 2013.  I’ve learned a lot since starting my business.  I’ve changed a lot of things too.  I’m ready to share my years of experience with you.  I’m here to teach and encourage you to get you started and to help your business grow!

You can join me online LIVE (not recorded!) at the bakery.  I'll talk to you about a variety of topics.

Business 101 covers how to get started in your cookie business with a commercial kitchen if necessary, what you need to ask your bank and accountant, policies for your website to get you going on the right foot, advice on choosing a business name, and ideas on what items and services you can offer.

Taking and Completing Orders will teach you my method step-by-step so that you never forget an order or leave out a detail when it's time to decorate. Everything will be in one spot to look over and refer to at any time.   I'll send you the two forms that I use for order-taking.


Those are just TWO of the classes I'm offering. Here is the full list for February and March 2018.

* Business 101 - Monday, Feb 19th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* How to Take and Complete Orders - Tuesday, Feb 20th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* Pricing, Invoicing, Bookkeeping - Monday, Feb 26th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* How to Host Cookie Decorating Parties and Classes - Tuesday, Feb 27th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* Royal Icing Consistencies and Bagging - Monday, March 5th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* How to Roll and Cut Dough - Tuesday, March 6th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* How to Bag, Platter and Ship Cookies - Monday, March 12th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* How to Keep Your Cookie Dough from Spreading - Tuesday, March 13th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* How Much Royal Icing to Make? - Monday, March 19th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* How to Grow Your Cookie Decorating Business - Tuesday, March 20th, 7 - 8:30 pm
* Open Q & A - Monday, March 26th, 7 - 8 pm

If you'd like your own private online class, I've got you covered with...
* Private, One-on-One, Classes - Weekdays, We'll put our calendars together to schedule.  Ask me anything!  I'm all yours.

I hope you'll check out the classes and join me!


Read more....... Posts on "Cookiepreneur Interviews" Posts on "Cookies as Business". Posts on " Poking Around the Kitchen". Posts on "Commercial Kitchen" Cookies are available for order through my website.

Private Cookie Decorating Classes in Middletown, MD

Would you like to learn how to decorate sugar cookies with royal icing?  I hold private classes for up to three students per class.  In three-hours, we'll make icing together, color, and bag it.  You'll get to see the different consistencies of royal icing that you need to decorate.

After the icing is ready, we'll decorate together.  I'll sit with you and decorate every step of the way with you.

Private classes are personalized for you.  If you're just beginning, we'll go over outlining and flooding, wet-on-wet, marbling, wet-on-dry, and wet-next-to-dry techniques.

If you've already got all of that down, we can work on some advanced techniques such as brushed embroidery, eyelet lace, stitched needlework, and design transfer methods.

Private classes are held at Sugar Dot Cookies in Middletown, MD, just outside of Frederick.  More information on my website.

Cookie Decorating Classes in Middletown, MD

Learn how to decorate sugar cookies with royal icing.

I hold private, one-on-one, decorating classes in Middletown, MD, just outside of Frederick.

The class will be personalized just for you.  We'll start with the basics of icing consistencies, outlining, flooding, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and marbling techniques.

You choose the theme of the cookies.  I'll choose the cutters and designs to go along with the lesson.

The cookies will be baked before you arrive.

You'll receive a copy of icing and dough recipes.

You'll decorate and take home 8 - 12 cookies (depending on how much time you take to decorate).

Choose a two-hour or a three-hour class.

Two-Hour Class.....
*  Icing will be made, colored, and bagged before you arrive.

Three-Hour Class....
*  We'll make, color, and bag the icing together so that you can learn about icing consistencies.

Would you like to bring a friend?  I offer one-on-two classes also.

Already familiar with the basics and would like to learn some more advanced techniques?  Sure!

Interested in signing up for a class?  Please contact me through my website.

Read more.......
Posts on "Cookiepreneur Interviews"
Posts on "Cookies as Business".
Posts on " Poking Around the Kitchen".
Posts on "Commercial Kitchen".

Private Cookie Decorating Party, March 2015

Sugar Cookie Decorating Private Party, March 2015, Middletown, MD

I had the privilege of having a private group to the bakery for a cookie decorating party.

They worked on Easter and Spring themed cookies....

What a great job they did and a lovely group!

I also had a super sweet young lady in for a private one-on-one cookie decorating class.  She was such a sweetheart and quite the piper!

For more information on cookie classes and parties, please visit my website.

Private Cookie Decorating Class - August 16, 2014

Private 0ne-on-One Cookie Decorating Class

This summer, I had the pleasure of teaching a sweet young lady about decorating sugar cookies.

The set up before class began.  The cookies were made ahead of time.  Here's everything we need to make, color, and bag royal icing........

My student working on her cookies......

She did a great job!......

What a pleasure it was!
Would you like to attend a cookie decorating class or party?  Learn more here.

Sugar Decorating Class - February 2014

How to Decorate Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing Class in Frederick, MD

February, 2014

The class was held just before Valentine's Day.

These were the sample cookies that I made......

Notice how most of the shapes were decorated in two different ways?  That was the point of this class.  It was super fun and a great group!

That's me chatting about cookie decorating to the table full of students......

The students mixing up royal icing......

Getting that consistency juuuuuust right.......

My star pupil (who has attended every single one of my classes!) demonstrating how to make icing bullets......

The whole class after coloring the icing.....

Doesn't the table look so pretty  - all set up for the decorating?......

Here they are getting to work.  They did a great job.....

My next cookie decorating class isn't schedule yet, but I'm thinking it will be April, 214.

Cookie Decorating Class, February 2014

Beginner's Cookie Decorating with Royal Icing Class in Frederick, Maryland

My next cookie class is scheduled for February 6th, 2014 from 6:30 - 9:30 pm.

We'll be decorating Valentine cookies.

I'll demonstrate different ways to decorate a single shape.  If you look at the photo above, you'll see that the two flowers are decorated differently, the two cupcakes, the two lips.....

There's no one right way to decorate a cookie!

You'll learn the difference between wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry decorating.

It's going to be fun!

Come learn with me.  There are only two spots left!  You can sign up here.

Here are a few photos from my last class in December......

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.