Cookie Craft: Baking & Decorating Techniques for Fun & Festive Occasions

A complete guide to creating beautifully designed and hand-decorated cookies at home presents full-color photography, step-by-step instructions, and a gallery of 150 colorful cookies, accompanied by information on ingredients, essential equipment and supplies, decorating techniques, and recipes for rolled cookie doughs--traditional sugar, chocolate, nutty, and gingerbread--and icing.
This best-selling book is now in paperback! Whether you’re making cookies for a baby shower, a birthday party, a holiday dinner, a hostess gift, or a wedding, you’ll find everything you need in this beautiful and inspiring guide. Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer teach you foolproof methods for rolling, baking, piping, flooding, and other key techniques -- everything you need to know to make show-stopping creations. They also offer design templates, four master cookie recipes (sugar, chocolate, nutty, and gingerbread), advice on freezing and shipping, and inspirational photos of more than 150 gorgeously decorated cookies. If you love decorating cookies, you’ll loveCookie Craft!