Be the hit of every party, without spending hours in the kitchen! Professional cookie decorator Anne Yorks shares quick decorating techniques you'll love. Start by making gift box and party hat cookies, and decorate them with trendy chevron designs. Baby showers are a great time to show off your skills with a rattle, onesie and baby carriage. Next, create customized cookies with Anne's easy methods for monograms, dainty flowers and more. Need treats for the little princess in your life? Anne shows you how to create princess cookies that will have you declared fairest hostess of them all. And, whip up game-day cookies that score major points! Finally, make memorable wedding cookies, and take your Christmas cookies up a notch with Anne's special marbled ornament designs.
Celebrate With Cookies: 19 Favorite Designs
Be the hit of every party without spending hours in the kitchen! Professional cookie decorator Anne Yorks shares quick techniques you'll love. Start by making gift box and party hat cookies, then show off at a baby shower with rattle, onesie and baby carriage cookies. Treats for princesses, sports fans and wedding guests follow, Monograms, flowers and holiday ornaments round out your repertoire.
Overview
About
Anne Yorks left the "real world" in 2007 to be a stay-at-home mom and to pursue her dream of starting her own bakery. As a self-taught baker, she spent years decorating cookies and tweaking her recipes for loved ones' weddings, parties, baby showers and beyond. All that practice finally paid off when she opened the successful Flour Box Bakery in her hometown of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
01: Perfect Icing & Piping Practice
Meet your instructor, Anne Yorks, and begin learning all about cookie decorating! Start with mastering the different icing consistencies and then practice piping different shapes to gain a strong piping foundation. Decorate your first cookie as you learn how to add designs that melt right into the surface of your icing.
27 min
02: Birthday
Be ready for any birthday party and learn how to decorate the pretty gift box and party hat cookies! Learn how to use new piping tip shapes to create texture and dimension. Then use a stencil and spray color to decorate the party hat with chevrons. Finally, discover how bead borders add lovely details and cover any uneven edges.
17 min
03: Baby Shower
Bring cute treats to a baby shower with Anne's rattle, monogram, onesie and baby carriage cookies! Learn how to pipe a dainty flower, flowing ribbons and a basket weave texture for cookies guaranteed to be the hit of the shower! Plus, learn Anne's easy method for perfect monograms every time.
29 min
04: Princess Party
Turn your baby rattle cutter into a pretty princess wand and learn how to add sanding sugar for a shimmery touch. Create tiaras for the entire royal court as you gain confidence piping scrollwork. Then, Anne takes you step by step through creating a princess cookie and shows you how to personalize it for the special girl in your life.
27 min
05: Sports
Create sports-themed cookies for any game-day party! Begin with piping two-tone royal icing numbers and learn how to add dimension through shading as you make a basketball cookie. Finally, use a stencil with royal icing to make your own football field cookie.
18 min
06: Wedding & Bridal Shower
Say "I do" to three lovely wedding-themed cookies. Create a quilted wedding cake with Anne's technique for piping checkerboards, and add dainty lace details. Then pipe a garden of flowers to turn your cupcake cutter into a lovely bouquet. Finish by making a wedding dress cookie with brush-embroidery details.
21 min
07: Christmas
Make the holidays much sweeter with Anne's Christmas cookies. Learn how to marble royal icing for a textured look on an ornament, and add an alternating bead border for a more intricate design element. You'll also learn the fast wreath cookie and make the jolliest of cookies: Santa!
17 min
