Inspired by a vintage cookie jar, this chubby Mrs. Santa cookie was outfitted by Julia in a couple of ways. In another rendition shown elsewhere in this gallery, Julia handpiped her bodice with royal icing, but here the decorative details
Julia missed no detail when dressing Mrs. Santa Claus! Her smoothly dipped icing skirt is adorned with delicate piping, rubber-stamped fondant trim, and a fondant apron. Just splendid! For all of the decorating details behind this 3-D cookie project, take
Mrs. Claus’ beauty shot certainly doesn’t disappoint! She casts a coy look from behind her royal icing spectacles. A molded fondant snowflake headdress sits atop her perfectly coiffed icing hair. And her elaborate fondant collar is beyond compare. Check out
One of Julia’s very first stencil sets and still one of her line’s all-time bestsellers, the Noel Prettier Plaques™ set makes a classic Christmas statement with its evergreens and pine cones. It also looks great in just two colors, which
Okay, we’re about as near as we can be to this cookie made with Julia’s Noel Prettier Plaques™ set. The reason for this proximity is to point out two things. One: The background stencil in the set can be used
Even this turkey set atop the oven is a cookie – a contoured cookie, to be exact. Its body was shaped over a silicone mold, dipped in royal icing, and then purposely airbrushed on low pressure to create the spattered
If you’re wondering how Julia created all of these mini edibles for her 3-D oven cookie project, you’re in luck! Here’s how, fully detailed in her recent YouTube tutorial. And to learn how to make the associated oven, check out this video.
And what better way to do that than with a cookie gift made with Julia’s Give Thanks Prettier Plaques™ stencil set?! With two designs (fall leaves and stripes) on the background stencil, it’s got even more design flexibility than the
In this other rendition of her 3-D baby cradle cookie, Julia decorated the headboard with bunting made of extruded fondant and rubber-stamped edible paper. To see how this cradle was assembled and decorated, hop on over to Julia’s YouTube video! Also,
Julia used the marbling technique to create the pattern on the chocolate “exhaust”, and her signature form of stenciling (with conformable stencils) to apply the stars and stripes to the firecracker shafts. But these clever methods are just the tip
Aren’t these stars on Julia’s chocolate firecrackers just dazzling? Well, yes, but they’re also ingenious! Julia developed an innovative technique using conformable stencils, which allowed her get exceedingly clean patterns on these very curved surfaces. Such a thing is next
The tiny burgers and other goodies on this grill look even more realistic as one zooms in. Julia painted the grill marks on the burgers with a needle tool dipped in food coloring. She also sprayed the flames with bronze
Julia is fascinated with manipulating cookies into forms they don’t usually take – you can see this in spades in her 3-D cookie work, and also here in these three spins on tuiles. In this instructional video, she shows how
If you’re about to bite into one of these chocolate fortune cookies made by Julia, then you’re headed for a good time because they’re both delicious and fun! To learn how to make and shape these classic tuile cookies, jump
Believe it or not, these three fancy dessert cups are all tuile, a delicate cookie that can be bent into all sorts of shapes when still hot from the oven. To learn how to stencil them with cocoa and shape
Wonderfully realistic, the leaves on this all-chocolate dessert cup are molded from the actual thing! For the complete how-to, check out Julia’s YouTube video.
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