Learn how to make some simple anemone flower decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!! Y'all it's been a hot minute, day, year, lifetime since I've posted. I offer no excuses or reasons or apologies. I simply offer you - some anemone cookies ..read more

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Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing or frosting with Wilton food coloring for your Christmas cakes, cookies, and cupcakes!!  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  When I make different colors with the same ratios (like the blues and reds above), I usually make the darkest color first. Then I add some of the darker colored icing into a bowl of fresh white icing to make a lighter version of the same icing.  I used Wilton brand's primary color 4 pack food col ..read more

Learn how to make a festive Sweet Shop decorated gingerbread house with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  You may have seen this design before. Because... well...I made it a whole pandemic ago. But then...things happened. Or nothing happened. I can't really be sure at this point. All I know is that I have been losing Decembers for more years than I can count. One day it will be happy-land-holiday-season on December 3 and then I wake up and it's the middle of January and the sky is dark and everyone is crying.     Related Stories How To Make Decor ..read more

Learn how to make some easy moon and star decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  When I was in college, I was a whitewater rafting guide in a fairly remote part of Wyoming. The nights were warm with just a little edge of cool wind coming through. And it was dark. So so dark without a moon. You could actually see the Milky Way.  And it seemed like I would always be 23 years old.      Related Stories Christmas in July Sugar Cookie Celebration   ..read more

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for Easter cookies!! I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  When I make different colors with the same ratios (like the peach colors), I usually make the darkest color first. Then I add some of the darker colored icing into a bowl of fresh white icing to make a lighter version of the same icing.  See how I made the Easter cookies HERE!! See more of my color pale ..read more

Learn how to make some Easter bunny, egg, and carrot decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!! We're friends, right? Like... we go waaaaaaay back to at least March if not more, right? So I can tell you stuff and you won't judge me?  Or at least you'll only judge me silently in your head but totally agree with me out loud that sleeping in is better than running in the snow...especially in April?! Oh good!  Because I feel like I just need someone to know that I actually did laundry today.  I mean...not A LOT of laundry. And I only folded mos ..read more

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next St. Patrick's Day shamrock treasure cookie project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  See how I made all these shamrock treasure decorated sugar cookies HERE!! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE!      Related Stories Strawberry Color Palette and Icing Color Formulas Valentine's Day Chalkboard and Lip ..read more

Learn how to make some St. Patrick's Day shamrock and leprechaun treasure decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  Did you know that March comes after February? Like... EVERY YEAR?!?! I don't know why this continues to be a surprise to me. I mean... I LOVE making Saint Patrick's Day cookies. I start thinking about them in January. (I'm not kidding. My neighbors wish I was kidding. ) You would think that at some point I would realize that the day after February is, in fact, March.  But somehow my brain continues to think that February will neve ..read more

A non-spreading and no-chill Irish Cream Green Velvet sugar cookie recipe for St. Patrick's Day!! I kind of love holidays. Especially the ones where I don't have to work and my kids don't have to go to school. Because I'm lazy? Sure.  But also because I love when things are fun AND lazy.  We celebrate all the major holidays around here. And the "good ones" like Ice Cream For Breakfast Day (first Saturday in February) and National Pajama Day (April 16).  Fun and lazy. I told you.  St. Patrick's Day is a little bit harder for me because SOMEONE … I'm not mention ..read more