Skill level: Intermediate
If you're like me, you've always wanted to create those beautiful cookies you see on Pinterest and Instagram but know ZERO about how it's actually done. Ok, maybe not zero but almost zero. I'm fairy certain there is some sort of magic cookie dough recipe and royal icing involved. All I know is when I attempt cookies, they look more like pizzas and that's not a good thing!
Thank goodness Susan Trianos has agreed to share some incredible cookie secrets with us! Everything from how to make the perfect sugar cookie dough, how to customize the flavors, how to keep your cookies perfectly shaped during baking, how to make Royal Icing for piping and flooding easily and reliably every time and obviously, how to decorate those cookies to Kate Spade perfection!
I was so inspired while I was editing this video that I actually made some royal icing and piped with it successfully and it was so easy! I can't wait to make some cookies!
1:23:34 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to create delicious, high-end sugar cookie designs
- Susan's tips and tricks to get perfectly-shaped sugar cookies
- How to make easy-to-use royal icing that makes decorating a breeze
- Learn to paint golden highlights and details onto modern, bold designs
- Several different techniques to stripe cookies, fill with ease, pipe perfect patterns and more!
Tutorial Chapters
- Rolling out the cookie dough
- Baking pan tips
- Making royal icing
- Thinning icing
- Piped and flooded technique
- Piped and flooded stripes technique
- Polka dots wet-on-wet technique
- Quick piped flooding technique
- Wet-on-wet hearts
- Wet-on-wet roses and leaves
- Dipping technique
- Fondant-covered cookie
- Textured-fondant cookie
- Piped accents
- Fondant accents
- How to get a perfect heart pattern
- Artistic brush stroke technique
- Painting with gold
- Piped petals and leaves
