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Cookie Decorating Essentials & More
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items This collection features the cookie decorating tools and supplies I actually use in my own cookie business. From must-have basics to a few game-changing extras. Whether you're just getting started or looking to upgrade your setup, these are reliabl...
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Essentials for Beginners
Advanced Cookiers
Cookie Printer & Tools
Storage
Essentials for Beginners
If you're just getting started with cookie decorating, these are the tools I consider the basics and essentials. These beginner-friendly items help make the process easier, improve consistency, and set you up for success from the start.
A rolling pin with measurement guides is a must-have for consistent cookie dough thickness. It helps create even, smooth cookies so they bake more uniformly and gives you a more polished fine result.
Rolling Pin with Guides
Metal half-sheet baking pans are a baking essential for any cookie decorator. I recommend having at least three so you can keep cookies rotating in and out of the oven while giving each batch enough time to cool properly.
Half Sheet Metal Baking Sheets
This AmeriColor gel food coloring pack is a great starter set for beginners or hobby bakers. It includes common everyday colors and is an easy way to build your collection while still getting beautiful icing colors.
AmeriColor Gel Food Coloring
A cookie turntable is one of my beginner must-haves for decorating. It lets you rotate the cookie as you work so you're not constantly touching and repositioning it, making decorating easier and helping create cleaner, smoother results.
Cookie Turntable
A cookie scribe is a simple tool that makes a big difference when decorating cookies. I use it to pop air bubbles, guide icing to the edges and smooth out thicker icing for a cleaner, more polished finish.
Cookie Scribe - Amazon.com
These 12" anti-burst piping bags are one of my decorating essentials. They're durable, comfortable to work with, and I love not having to worry about bags splitting while piping icing.
Piping Bags 100pcs 12in Anti Burst Icing
A lemon zester may seem like an unexpected cookie tool, but it's one of my favorite little decorating hacks. I use it to gently clean up cookie edges and smooth out spots where the dough bubbles or spreads a bit, helping create sharper, cleaner lines and surfaces before decorating.
Lemon Zester - Amazon.com
Advanced Cookiers
These are some of my favorite tools and equipment for taking a cookie business to the next level. Many of these are investment pieces or “nice-to-have” items, but they've helped me save time, improve consistency, and make larger-scale baking and deco...
This Kodak Pocket Projector is one of my most used cookie decorating tools for detailed designs and lettering. I use it to project images and writing directly onto my sugar cookies, making it much easier to trace and create cleaner, more precise results every time.
KODAK Luma 150 Ultra Mini Pocket Projector
This projector mount works perfectly with my Kodak projector and makes decoration setup so much easier. I love that it lets me adjust the angle directly over my cookies, and the built-in phone holder is a great bonus for keeping everything in one place while I work.
Projector Mount and Phone Holder
The Cookie Countess mesh non-stick mats are one of my favorite baking tools for decorated cookies. They help reduce cookie spread while baking and leave a fun textured pattern on the bottom for an extra little detail.
Mesh Non-Stick Baking Mats - The Cookie Countess
The Sugar Art gel food coloring is my go-to for creating both soft muted shades and bold, vibrant colors in royal icing, buttercream and fondant. It's a little pricier than some other options, but the pigmentation and color payoff make it completely worth it for beautiful, consistent results and lasts a long time.
The Sugar Art - Gel Food Coloring
A countertop dough sheeter is definitely a nice-to-have tool, but it saves me so much time during large baking days. I make up to 16 batches of could dough at a time, and this has been a huge help in saving my arms and wrists while keeping dough thic...
Countertop Dough Sheeter - Brod & Taylor
This 20-quart stand mixer has been a huge help for my cookie business and makes large baking days much more manageable. Being able to mix multiple batches of dough at once saves so much time, especially when I'm producing 10-20 dozen cookies a week.
20 Qt. Planetary Stand Mixer with Guard & Standard Accessories
A 3-tray half-sheet countertop convection oven has been one of the best investments for my cookie business. Bing able to bake up to 2 dozen plus cookies at a time helps speed up baking days and makes larger orders much easier to keep up with.
Electric Thermostatic Countertop 3 Tray Half Size Convection Oven ...
These stainless steel prep tables with wheels have been such a practical additional to my cookie workspace. I use one for my mixer and one for my oven, and I love being able to move them around easily and tuck everything out of the way when not in use.
Stainless Steel Prep Table with Casters
Cookie Printer & Tools
This section includes the Cookie Printer and tools I use to go along side it. These tools have helped me expand into custom logo cookies for businesses, events and special orders, adding a whole new professional layer to my cookie business.
The Eddie Primera Cookie Printer is definitely an investment, but it can open up a whole new side of your cookie business. I use mine for Logo cookies and custom branding for business events, open houses, grand openings, holiday events and more, making it a great way to reach a new audience and expend your offerings which will make it pay for iteself in no time.
Eddie the Edible Ink Printer - Primera Technology, Inc.
To go with my Eddie Primera Cookie Printer, I also use these Sprinkle Tray's from the Sprinkle Factory instead of the standard carousel. I love the control and precision that they give me over the carousel since I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it c...
The Sprinkle Tray
Storage
A 22qt round storage container with lid is perfect for keeping my dry baking ingredients organized and fresh. I use these for staples like flour, sugar and oats, and they make it so much easier to store and access bulk ingredients while keeping my wo...
22 Qt. Round Food Storage Container Translucent ...
This 3-pack of rectangle food storage containers is a must for my freezer prep system. The airtight, freezer safe lids make them perfect for storing baked sugar cookies, cake balls, and even drop cookie dough, helping me stay organized and ready for large weekly orders. Their ability to stack neatly is another bonus for freezer storage...
Youngever 3 Pack 1.3 Gallon Food Storage Containers
A 25lb rolling storage container is perfect for storing large quantities of flour in my kitchen. I love that it holds bulk quantities easily, and the wheels make it simple to move around my workspace when needed.
25lb Food Storage Container with wheels
These 10x12 inch thin clear project cases are perfect for compact and organized cookie storage. I use them for both decorated and undecorated sugar cookies, and the stackable design lets me work on large batches at once without taking up too much counter space.
Portable Project Thin Case