Elaborately Decorated Cookies fill the shelves of
high-end bakery cases, tempting shoppers with bright
colours and whimsical shapes. The cookies are beautiful,
but buying them in a bakery can be shockingly expensive,
and their flavour often doesn't live up to their
appearance. Now home bakers can have their pretty
cookies and enjoy eating them too!Thanks to the clear
instructions and practical methods developed by authors
Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer, amateur cookie
crafters can achieve bakery-quality design and homemade
fresh taste. ''Cookie Craft'' gives readers access to
the entire world of decorated cookies, beginning with an
inspirational gallery of 150 colourful cookies
guaranteed to start those creative juices flowing. The
authors go on to discuss ingredients, supplies,
equipment and technique. They include four delicious
recipes for rolled cookie dough's (Traditional Sugar,
Chocolate, Nutty, and Gingerbread) that provide perfect
blank canvases for decorating, and, of course, their
recipe for versatile Royal Icing.In the most important
section, they share the design techniques accumulated
and perfected during hundreds of afternoons spent
crafting thousands of cookies.Cookie crafters will learn
how to pipe, flood, and sugar their cookies, how to
design colour palettes that work with every sea- son,
how to make cookies stand up in fun 3-D structures, and
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