Cookie Decorating for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Designs You Can Actually Make at Home

Create Bakery-Quality Cookies in Your Own Kitchen!Walk past any high-end bakery window, and you'll see them: rows of beautifully decorated sugar cookies, smooth as glass, painted with delicate borders, florals, and patterns that look almost too pretty to eat. You might think they require an art degree. They don't. In Cookie Decorating for Beginners, Florence Malchi proves that all you need is one flawless cookie recipe, perfectly mixed royal icing, a few simple tools, and a little patience. Whether you're baking for a holiday, a birthday, or just for fun, this book takes you from bare dough to breathtaking designs with zero intimidation. What You'll Discover Inside: - The Perfect Foundations: A foolproof, no-spread sugar cookie recipe and a glossy royal icing guide that demystifies consistencies. - Minimal Tools Required: Skip the expensive 50-piece kits-learn the short list of essentials you actually need to get started. - 5 Core Techniques: Master the outline, flood, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and brush work. - 12 Beginner-Friendly Designs: Step-by-step tutorials starting from a simple flooded cookie and building up to stunning watercolor and brush embroidery designs. - Troubleshooting Guide: Easy fixes for bumpy outlines, air bubbles, streaky colors, and spreading dough. Part of The Confident Kitchen Series, this approachable guide is designed to set you up for success. Stop scrolling through impossible social media videos and start piping! Grab your copy today and bake your first batch of beautiful, delicious art!