Cookie Art


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In Cookie Art, superstar cookie decorator Amber Spiegel teaches you to create over 30 designs to turn even the most ordinary cookie into something amazing. These stunning projects reinforce and sharpen your skills to help you make any cookie a work of art.




Her Daily Bread


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“Kate’s heart for food and people warm every page… truly, a comforting read for anyone with an appetite for loving others well.”– Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author of Dream Big and Live in Grace From the writer and photographer behind the award-winning Wood and Spoon blog comes a 365-day devotional, featuring daily reflections and 52 delicious recipes that will nourish the body and soul throughout the year. In the midst of her busy schedule, Kate Wood, award-winning blogger behind Wood and Spoon and mother of three, realized that she was surviving, but not thriving, and that what she needed more than another cup of coffee was real connection with herself, with others, and with God. At the table, there’s an invitation to serve, connect, and give deeply of ourselves, and Kate invites us to join her at that table through the pages of this daily devotional. Like a conversation with a good friend, each day offers the chance to reflect, go deeper into scripture, and receive the encouragement you need. Kate also shares treasured family recipes, including: • Mom’s Homemade Bread • Two-Bite Crab Cakes with Lemon Dill Aioli • Cheddar Cornmeal Chicken Pot Pie • Simple Pesto Risotto • Weekday Red Velvet Cake • Birthday Sprinkle Pancakes • Fluffernutter Pretzel Pie Find a comfy chair, grab a cup of coffee, and settle into these words that offer encouragement, connection, and hope.




Baker's Royale


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Baker's Royale turns basic desserts upside-down with addictive flavors and gorgeous presentations: the only sweets book you'll need this year! Baker's Royale is a dessert cookbook that revisits-and revamps-classic recipes for the modern baker. Naomi Robinson thinks outside the cake mix box in her kitchen and on her site, BakersRoyale.com, mixing and matching for mash-ups that wow. Her exciting flavor combinations and eye for the easiest show-stoppers struck a chord, and readers clamored for more of her inventive sweets. The book includes 75 classic recipes with a twist: Burnt Caramel Custard Pie French Silk Crunch Cake Cannoli Cakelets Raspberry Almond Opera Cake Apple Pie Marshmallows Shortcuts like premade cookie dough and candy garnishes make these desserts as practical as they are fanciful. Stunning photography throughout showcases Naomi's unique style, which is as delicious as it looks.




1000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes


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1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes features a vast collection of decorated dessert inspiration, with page after page of gorgeous photos. This book is a feast for the eyes and the imagination that will never leave you stuck for an idea. Get your creative juices flowing and see how bakers and decorators around the world have creatively used fondant, buttercream, gum paste, sugar paste, royal icing, and piping and molded designs to create cookies, cupcakes, and cakes that are true works of art. See elegant cupcakes decorated with pearls and piping, colorful hand-painted cookies, tiered cakes with dimensional flowers, and much more. Discover unique cupcake decorations that use royal icing, edible markers, and fondant; wedding cakes adorned with gum paste accents and debossed designs; vibrant Christmas cookies; whimsical children’s birthday cakes; specialty Easter cakes, and much more. Get great year-round ideas for dessert presentations and gift giving. Recipes for several types of frosting are included in the book, and an image directory identifies key materials and techniques for each photo. Among the amazing featured creations are: ·Cupcakes topped with sweet fondant flowers ·Fanciful characters and animals made from fondant and gum paste ·Cookies decorated with imaginative royal icing designs ·Lush buttercream roses atop cakes and cupcakes ·Hand-painted fondant accents ·Delicate chocolate motifs ·Cakes enrobed in decadent ganache ·Simple buttercream designs that dazzleThis is the one book you’ll turn to again and again for the best cupcake, cookie, and cake design ideas. Start exploring this delicious world today! These visual catalogs are both a practical, inspirational handbook and a coffee-table conversation piece. Like all of the books in our 1,000 series, these are not instructional books; rather, they are a visual showcase designed to provide endless inspiration.




Creature Cookies


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Let cookies be your new canvas! Now these sweet treats are also a creative outlet for imagination and arty crafting skills. Anyone can learn easy techniques for transforming plain cookies into little works of art following the step-by-step instructions and detailed photography found inside Sweet Art: Creature Cookies. Beginning with the cookies themselves, best-selling author and reknowned sugar artist Autumn Carpenter gives you her favorite recipes with tried-and-true tips for baking cookies that are perfect for decorating. See amazing ways to use common cookie cutters to create cute animal shapes. Learn the basics and beyond of piping buttercream icing, decorating with fondant, decorating with run-sugar icing, and so much more. Create over 80 different animal cookies. Discover many interesting ways to create textures for fur, feathers, or fish scales. Explore lots of possibilities for color combinations and blending. The creature cookies is this book represent all corners of the globe from earth, sea, and sky: safari, farm, forest, jungle, desert, lake, and ocean; even family pets! "Once again the amazing Autumn Carpenter has pooled her creative genius in creating a new and exciting book. Creature Cookies features Autumn's unique approach to fun, whimsical, and easy to create cookies. Written with easy to follow step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations will make this book a must have for all cookie decorating enthusiasts." - Chef Nicholas Lodge, Pastry Chef and Master Sugar Artist (Atlanta, Georgia) "Autumn Carpenter has sugar running through her veins. She comes from a long line of industry leaders and committed sugar artists that have excelled both artistically and commercially. Her skill set is proven, techniques exhibit quality, and her tutorials are accurate telling the whole story. Definitely for the cute at heart!" - Kerry Vincent, International Cake Exploration Societe Hall of Fame 2004, Dessert Professional Hall of Fame 2010, Food Network Challenge judge and host of Save My Bakery "Autumn Carpenter's new book is a delight! The ideas are new and creative and the techniques are easy enough for anyone to master. This book would be a great gift for young or old!" - Colette Peters, Colette's Cakes in New York City, author of five books on cakes and cake decorating, renowned educator, and recipient of multiple awards in the culinary arts




The Complete Photo Guide to Cookie Decorating


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The Complete Photo Guide to Cookie Decorating is the ultimate reference for all methods of cookie decorating—a comprehensive guide for crafters and aspiring sugar artists. In just a few minutes, a cookie can be transformed from a simple shape into a colorful, edible work of art. With some basic skills and a little practice, everyone from kids to adults can enjoy this fun craft. Expert sugar artist and author of The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating, Autumn Carpenter, helps you learn these skills and become a confident cookie decorator through step-by-step directions, 400 full-color photos, and invaluable decorating tips and tricks. The clear organization provides easy access to information, simple projects provide fun opportunities for trying the techniques, and a gallery of beautifully decorated cookies offers examples and inspiration. You’ll find: Recipes and helpful tips for rolling, cutting, and baking perfect cookies Recipes for various icings–buttercream, chocolate, run sugar, egg wash, and rolled fondant Detailed instructions for piping, painting, marbling, and coating plus ways to add shimmer, sparkle, and special accents Great ideas for packaging, storing, and presenting your decorated cookies For those who might be a bit intimidated by the idea of decorating cookies, fear not! With this guide and some experimentation, anyone, from knowledgeable baker to amateur home cooks, can create this edible art. The Complete Photo Guide series includes all the instruction you need to pursue your creative passion. With hundreds of clear photos, detailed step-by-step directions, handy tips, and inspirational ideas, it’s easy and fun to try new projects and techniques and take your skills to the next level.




Sugarlicious


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With a dab of bright icing and a sprinkle of color, you can transform drab sugar cookies into glowing planets, plain marshmallows into scary zombies and simple cake pops into blooming flowers. Meaghan Mountford, creator of the blog The Decorated Cookie and the Edible Crafts editor of CraftGossip.com, shares her secrets for producing adorable, edible art. Full of beautiful color photos and illustrated step-by-step directions, this guide will demystify professional techniques so that anyone can learn how to pipe icing like a pro and have fun with fondant. With the lively inspiration and foolproof directions in this book, you can discover how to personalize any sweet treat and turn your home kitchen into a studio for sugarlicious works of art!




Mom's Big Book of Cookies


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Hundreds of choices to satisfy the most discriminating cookie eaters - kids! Think you don't have time to bake from scratch? In Mom's Big Book of Cookies, Lauren Chattman shows you how easy it is to make homemade cookies for your family, with 200 fabulous cookie recipes that your kids (and everyone else in the family) will eagerly devour. As a former professional pastry chef, Chattman knows what it takes to produce high-quality baked goods, but as a mother of two she is realistic about how much time moms have for baking. All the recipes in this book are easy to follow, and all have been taste-tested and given a big thumbs-up by Chattman's own children and their friends and schoolmates. Featuring both kid-friendly flavors and more sophisticated options for adults, these recipes will get you through any number of occasions that scream out for cookies, such as birthday parties, holidays, school bake sales, or bad-weather days when everyone is stuck in the house and looking for something fun to do. Written by a mom for moms and featuring a user-friendly lay-flat binding, Mom's Big Book of Cookies also gives you lots of useful tips to ensure cookie-baking success and suggests ways to involve your kids in the cookie-making process. With each recipe more delicious-sounding than the last, you are sure to find dozens of wholesome treats that will soon become family favorites.




Twenty to Make


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Sugarcraft expert Lisa Slatter has created twenty different designs for decorating cookies suitable for all kinds of occasions, including celebrations, birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Halloween and Valentine's Day. There are instructions for making the cookies themselves (though ready-made cookies can also be used) and notes on the equipment needed, and each project is accompanied by clear, step-by-step instructions and complete materials and tools lists. A source of ideas and inspiration for anyone keen to make and design decorated cookies of their own.




The Big Book of Cookies


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Fun, simple, and sure-to-please cookie recipes—from all-time classics to contemporary favorites Here's a massive collection of the best cookies and bars ever with more than 180 sensational recipes that are as easy to make as they are fun to eat. Whether made from scratch or with a Betty Crocker mix, these delectable cookies give you as many options as any cookie lover could want. Whether you crave traditional favorites or fancy new ideas, you'll fall in love with these lusciously diverse cookies—from classic peanut butter cookies to unexpected flavors like Pecan-Praline Bacon Bars. Plus, with a special section of gluten-free recipes, every member of the family can get in on the fun. · Features more than 180 easy-to-make cookie recipes offering a wide variety of flavors and variations, from fun cookies for kids to sophisticated dinner-party delights · Illustrated with more than 100 full-color photos and step-by-step how-to photos for baking, decorating, and more · Includes tips and advice on cookie-making basics, from rolling and cutting to baking and frosting You'll find almost any cookie you can imagine in the Betty Crocker Big Book of Cookies. With these recipes and variations, you'll find the perfect sweet treat for any occasion…or no occasion at all.