Cookie Decorating For Beginners: Create Incredible, Edible Art

Make art you can eat in this comprehensive cookie decorating class that takes you from basic flooding to full decorations with YouTube icon The Icing Artist!

Laurie Shannon — aka the Icing Artist — taught herself how to decorate cookies and cakes, and now she’s sharing her expertise with you. Once you’ve got a handle on Laurie’s tried-and-true basics, you’ll soon be creating elaborate, beautiful cookies just by layering your skills! Plus, Laurie will decorate right alongside you, troubleshooting and adjusting as she goes while she shares her tips and tricks for beautifully decorated cookies.

In this fun and accessible class, Laurie takes you through basic flooding and decorating techniques and then steps up the complexity with three sets of themed cookies. Alongside Laurie, you’ll learn how to:

• Flood cookies neatly and smoothly
• Build on a base layer of icing with different flooding and fill techniques
• Use stencils for clean, cute designs
• Use a combination of techniques to create complete cookie designs

From birthdays and baby showers to holiday swaps and graduation celebrations, you'll leave this class with everything you need to create incredible, edible art for any occasion all year long. Grab Laurie’s sugar cookie and royal icing recipes and get ready to make some delicious, decorated cookies!

This class is for everyone, regardless of baking experience. Laurie’s recipes are designed to be accessible and relatively simple. A complete list of Laurie’s tools is provided in the Resources section, as well as simple, around-the-house items you can use instead.

• Introduction
• Decorating Essentials
• Preparing to Decorate
• Royal Icing Mastery
• Basic Flooding
• Sectional Flooding
• Wet on Dry Flooding
• Using Stencils
• Wet on Wet Flooding
• Using Edible Markers
• Decorating Food Cookies
• Decorating Wedding Cookies
• Decorating Winter Cookies
• Final Thoughts