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Updated on March 30, 2022 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

3D Cookie Factory Cookie Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Ana Ferreira of Anna Sugar Art Boutique joins us for this amazing 3D gingerbread cookie tutorial. Ana breaks down how to cut your gingerbread into the cookie factory shapes as well as make this elaborate design and offers tips and tricks to add wow factor to your cookie piece.

1:30:05 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a 3D standing gingerbread cookie factory design
  • Learn how to dilute your royal icing to a flooding consistency for decorating
  • How Ana adds dimension and shading to her cookie pieces

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Cutting the templates 1:12
  2. Cutting the cookies 2:06
  3. Baking the cookies 5:38
  4. Tracing the template 8:05
  5. Flooding consistency 13:45
  6. Preparing the piping bag 20:39
  7. 1st layer of Flooding 23:22
  8. Flooding on acetate 28:17
  9. Detail work 29:51
  10. Adding the green dusts 50:33
  11. Adding the red dusts 53:24
  12. Adding the orange & brown dusts 56:21
  13. Writing words 1:02:04
  14. Red & green royal icing 1:02:37
  15. Added piping details 1:08:45
  16. Attaching the cookies 1:20:55
  17. Adding supports 1:23:20
  18. Final snow and details 1:24:08

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.