Cookie Decorating
If decorating cakes isn't your thing but you love nurturing your artistic side through food, then cookie decorating is perfect for you. Sugar and gingerbread cookie designs are so intriguing to me, I just love the art of cookie decorating!
Important Equipment & Tools
The following items will make your cookie decorating experience a high level one.
When I started my Wilton cake decorating classes, the first piece of advice the teacher gave me was to buy this mixer for my cakes and icing and she was so right. Especially when making buttercream or royal icing, a sturdy stand mixer is a must. This...
Once you become a little more experienced, an airbrush tool is so much fun for cookies, cakes and cupcakes.
When you're first starting out, a cookie decorating kit is the best place to begin. It is a very economical way to get the key tools you'll require while you learn as well as a case to keep everything packed away neatly.
This will help to ensure your cookie shape will be perfectly uniform.
This is a best selling item for good reason, it helps you form abnormally shaped cookies.
This is such a helpful item, especially if you don't want to take up all of your counter space with flat racks.
These are amazing!
Call me lazy but sometimes I just don't want to clean icing remnants out of 10 bags after I'm done decorating cookies and these solve that problem for me.
Icing & Edible Decorations
It's okay to purchase icing and pre-made decorations sometimes, especially while you learn.
It takes some time in the beginning to learn how to make icing that is the perfect consistency for cookie decorating. While you learn, but pre-made icing is often helpful and I find Wilton to be the best!
Dark black icing is really hard to make, this is way easier.
This is perfect for Christmas cookies.
Stensils
Stensiling is a beautiful way to achieve impressive and perfectly uniform cookies.
A stensil holder is really helpful for keeping your stensils in place while you air brush or icing scrape your designs.
Letter stensils really come in handy, as fine it takes a long time to learn to write tiny letters freehand on cookies.
I love these designs so much!
I love these stensils, these designs are very popular.
These are so freaking cute!
Decorating Books
There are a ton of useful videos on YouTube and IG for cookie decorating, but I'm old school and like to have books for cooking, baking and decorating food.
There are a ton of useful videos on YouTube and IG for cookie decorating, but I'm old school and like to have books for cooking, baking and decorating food.
This is a great book for beginners.
The cookies in this book are stunning.
The designer cookies in this book are next level. Perfect for cookie gifts.
This book is awesome, I just love the designs.
This is a beautiful book for decorating cookies with buttercream.
These designs are just gorgeous!
Cookie Stands & Gift Boxes
What's the point of taking time to make cookie art if we aren't going to properly display our work? Here are some beautiful display and/or gifting ideas.
This gives off Alice in Wonderland vibes and I am here for it!
This is just beautiful!
Just beautiful. Perfect for cookies, cupcakes and other desserts.
These are perfect for gifting your beautifully decorated cookies.
I love these boxes for gifting cookies, you can fit more than the 8x8 boxes and still have a windowed top to see the contents.
If you wish to wrap your cookies indivdually, these are perfect!