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Oven O’Plenty Redux

Let’s swoop in and take a closer look at the plentiful details surrounding this oven cookie. Which ones are your faves? The rubber-stamped clock, the royal icing and fondant oven dials, the rubber-stamped fondant spoon, the royal icing pumpkin pie,

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Two Turkeys

These contoured turkey cookies are so realistic (despite not having any wings, LOL)! They sit on royal icing-transfer platters edged with rubber-stamped fondant that mimics transferware. Sliced royal icing potatoes and piped herbs finish the presentation. For more info about

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Petite Pies and Peas

There’s no denying that these petite edibles are darling – and cleverly crafted too! The bowl and pie pans were made of contoured royal icing transfers – in this case, royal icing shaped in silicone molds! The pie was then

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Cute-As-Can-Be Cookies

These mini chocolate chip cookies, complete with edible paper-lined fondant baking sheets, filled the ovens in Julia’s 3-D kitchen vignette. For more info about how to make these cute-as-can-be cookies and the other edibles in Julia’s kitchen scene, see this

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Give Thanks Redux

Here’s Julia’s Give Thanks Prettier Plaques™ stencil set in action yet again – this time with a couple of design spins worth explaining! First, the foreground cookie is solid evidence that these sets work wonderfully with a number of mediums.

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Gratitude with Attitude

The foreground cookie is a sassy spin on Julia’s standard Give Thanks Prettier Plaques™ look. Rather than leave the cookie simply airbrushed and very streamlined as she’s done with the cookie in the background, she dolled up this one with

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Oh, Baby!

Talk about adorable-overload! Hop on over to Julia’s YouTube video to see how to make everything from the distressed wood finish to all of the trims on this 3-D cookie cradle! Also, check out this video for the scoop on all of

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Cradle Close-up

Like always, Julia made multiple renditions of her baby cradle project. This close-up features a design where the whitewashed headboard and baseboard are dominated by molded cookies! To see how this cradle was assembled and decorated, hop on over to Julia’s

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Bear-y Cute

Julia filled her 3-D cradle cookie project with pillows made of royal icing transfers and the cutest 2-D bear cookies! All of the delicate black details on the bears were drawn with edible markers, and the patches were made of

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Pillow Perfection

Though only companions to Julia’s 3-D baby cradle cookie, these edible pillows are so worth pointing out! Cleverly constructed of cake lace and wafer paper trims sandwiched between royal icing transfers, they fill out Julia’s cradles just perfectly. For all

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Light Your Fire

Don’t these mousse-filled chocolate firecrackers do just that? Make them exactly as pictured, or streamline the project by making just the cylinders. Either way, they are a most festive Fourth of July dessert! Jump on over to Julia’s YouTube channel

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Smokin’ Hot!

OMG, yes! This 3-D BBQ grill lookalike is entirely cookie and icing – and so darn hot! Watch how Julia baked, dipped, and assembled the grill cookie in this YouTube video. And, to learn how to make the food, plates,

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Smokin’ Hot Redux

Here’s a slightly more complex 3-D BBQ grill with a suspended side station loaded with royal icing burgers and hotdogs! How tasty! Watch how Julia shaped and assembled the grill cookie in this YouTube video. And, to learn how to

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Rocking It In Red

Julia’s 3-D BBQ grill cookie also rocks it in red – and even when all closed up! To learn how she so perfectly cloaks these cookies in icing, check out this YouTube video. And, for every step behind the food,

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Dad’s View

Imagine dad tending Julia’s 3-D grill! Here’s what that cookie might look like from his point of view! As always, Julia labors over every aspect of her 3-D projects to make sure they view well from all angles. See how

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Food, Glorious Food

Indeed! Can you believe that these teeny hotdogs and hamburgers are all edible? So too are the smoke, flames, grill grate, and cheese! To learn how Julia made these details in her 3-D grill cookie vignette, check out this video.

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