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Celebrate With Cookies!"The perfect gift for someone who enjoys making fancy treats and entertaining." --Meredith Spidel, author of Mom of the Year.
#1 New Release in Cooking with Kids, Cookies, Sweets, and Curiosities & Wonders
A Cookie to Celebrate is full of cookie baking tips, recipes, presentation ideas, and photograph-filled instructions
Desserts made to impress at your next party. What sets A Cookie to Celebrate apart is its step-by-step instructions for gorgeously personalized cookies for all kinds of occasions, from birthdays to anniversaries to the changing of the seasons. These cookies are ornamental edibles that are perfect for the holidays, and because the recipes are easy to scale up or down, they're great for cookie exchanges, gift-giving, kids' parties, and potlucks.
Perfect cookie for every occasion. Jana Douglass is the founder of Jana Lee's Bake Shop, an artisan bake shop specializing in custom decorated cut-out cookies for special events and celebrations. In A Cookie to Celebrate, Jana shares her baking expertise and recipes as a veteran baker, inspiring you to create your own new classics. Each cookie in this collection is guaranteed to be a stand-out.
Reimagined recipes and exciting new treats. A Cookie to Celebrate is filled with new twists on cookie concepts, like Engagement Ring Cookies and Baby Onesie Cookies--confections decorated for every season and reason. Try something new with ice cream cone cookies with sprinkles in summer, conversation heart cookies for Valentine's Day, or even decorating a birthday cake with cookies!
Discover:
How to expertly roll, cut, and bake your cookie dough
Helpful tools and techniques for coloring and piping icing
Creative ways to spice up classics--or try something new
If you have enjoyed cookie baking books such as The Perfect Cookie, Fabulous Modern Cookies, The Cookie Companion, Creative Cookie Decorating, or Baker Betties Better Baking Book, you'll love A Cookie to Celebrate.
Contents
Foreword: A Cookie to Celebrate
Table of Contents
Introduction
Cookie basics: rolling, cutting, baking, etc.
How to make sugar cookies (recipe)
Roll dough to desired thickness
Cut with desired shapes
Bake to perfection- puffy centers.
Royal Icing 101
How to make RI (recipe)
COLORING the icing
How to make pipe/flood consistencies and bag icing
Storage
Decorating Basics (things to know before you get started)
Helpful tools
Practicing lines on paper
How to pipe and flood BASICS
Spring Theme Chapter
Tulip Cookie
How to make leaves
Bunny Cookie (using the same cutter turned upside down)
Simple Faces
Lemon flavored icing for Spring
Summer Theme
Ice cream cone cookies
How to make homemade sprinkles
Different colored sprinkles for different themes (4th of July)
Fall theme
Pumpkin Cookie (I am thinking pink or more on the peach side)
How to create texture on cookies
Adding a jack o'lantern face to the pumpkin for Halloween
Adding florals to the pumpkin for Thanksgiving
How to make royal icing flowers
Winter Theme
Snowflake Cookie
Using sprinkles for added sparkles
Hot Coco Cookies
How to make (and use) royal icing transfers
Wedding Theme
Wedding Ring
How to use luster dusts to create realistic metallics
Heart Cookie with text
Tips on how to add text to cookies
Add a nod to Valentine's Day
Birthday Theme
Birthday Cake Cookie
Tips on how to make candles look realistic
Balloon Cookies
How to use the wet on wet RI technique
Baby Theme
Onesie Cookie
How to make ruffles with royal icing
Holiday Theme (specifically Christmas)
Santa Face
How to create characters without complex faces
Note to Santa
Edible Markers
Writing notes to kids, etc. any time of the year!
Finishing your Cookies
Drying cookies
Packaging Cookies
cellophane bags, etc.
Display Ideas
Party platters
Our signature wedding ring cookie tied to a champagne bottle
Place Settings
How to keep cookies fresh
Conclusion
