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......

Valentine Cookie Bouquets

I decided to do something a little different for Valentine's Day.  Cookie Bouquets!

Sugar cookies, decorated with royal icing, sanding sugar and nonpareils, on sticks, in cute little tins.  I'm pleased with how they came out.

Here's "Sweet as a Cupcake".  The cupcake was inspired by Sugarbelle's.

This is "Soaring Heart".  I did a little brush embroidery on the wings.

Here we have "Hot Lips".

And last, but not least - "Daisy Love".

Each cookie pop is individually bagged and tied with curling ribbon.

They're available for purchase locally in Frederick, MD.  Interested in purchasing?  Hop on over to my website.  :)

Mustache and Lips Sugar Cookie Pops

Mustache and lip sugar cookies decorated with royal icing on sticks!








Here they are in action! I made them for a family birthday party. All of the kids wanted the mustaches. Not many takers on the lips. Go figure.


I heard the cutie pie on the left say, "Mustaches are so in." Ha ha.






Would you like to know how I made them?

I bought these mustache cookie cutters from FunSlurp. They would be super easy if you used chocolate dough and used the tops of the cutters to imprint the texture. No icing necessary.

That's not the route I chose however.

I chose these cutters because of the fun variety included in the set. Sorry to say that I ran into a few problems with them.


First I tried to cut out chilled dough with them. The cookies wouldn't release from the cutters. Even floured cutters. Since they're closed on the top, there was just no way to release them intact.





Then I tried room temperature dough. The dough didn't stick to the cutters thankfully.




The cuts aren't the cleanest though. The plastic did a bit of smooshing along with cutting.










I flipped the shapes over on a cookie sheet, placed the sticks on top then covered each one with a piece of dough. I flipped them back over before baking, then tried to tidy up the rough edges a bit.


Some of the mustaches only had a narrow area where the sticks needed to attach. I was a little worried about how stable the would be but they turned out just fine.










I flooded them with 20-secondish royal icing then piped the lines on top.



The icing is colored brown. Chocolate icing would have been a fabulous alternative!













I forgot to insert the sticks on the first batch of lips! Multi-tasking is sometimes my downfall.













Here's the whole platter.

I made some small, round cookies too. The lips and mustache cookies are rather large. I wanted the adults to be able to have a small cookie if they'd prefer.

We were celebrating five birthdays so I added the initial of each of the birthday kids to a cookie.

Darn those wonky circles. I should have made a circle imprint before piping but I thought I'd just go for it. Big mistake. I really wish those had turned out better.




The only kid that volunteered to model with a lip pop. What a sport.

(Darn flash.)


Stroking his mustache! Gotta love it!

How about this cake? My 16 year old niece made it! Makes her aunt proud!