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Make Merry

And merry you and your guests will be if you serve up these cookies made with Julia’s Peace Prettier Plaques™ release and the message from her Merry set! One of the most convenient features of Julia’s sets is the ability

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More Merry

Zooming in to give you more of that merry message cookie that uses two of Julia’s holiday Prettier Plaques™ sets: Peace and Merry (naturally!). And, while we’re this close, get a load of that snowflake royal icing transfer perched above

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Move Over, Santa!

Mrs. Claus has arrived, and she’s made completely of cookies and icing! She’s sure to be a showstopper on any holiday table, with or without her famous husband in tow. Check out Julia’s in-depth instructional video for all of the step-by-step details!

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Closing In On Mrs. Santa

Yes, let’s come a bit closer so you can better see Mrs. Santa’s fine details! She’s got specs made out of royal icing transfers; a fancy rubber-stamped fondant collar; a platter of cookies crafted from royal icing “putty” and black

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Reindeer’s View

Here’s what the reindeer see of Mrs. Santa as they’re coming in for a landing! Julia plays close attention to every angle of her 3-D projects as she’s designing and constructing them, so it’s not surprising that this top-down view

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Noel Redux

Here’s another glimpse of Julia’s Noel Prettier Plaques™ set whose evergreen-and-pine cone motif looks perfectly at home on a table decorated the same way. This set can be simply stenciled and airbrushed, or you can embellish it as you see

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Sizzling Hot! 

Yes, these 3-D oven cookies by Julia are nothing less than sizzling hot with their incredible attention to all-edible details. Use them for a Thanksgiving or holiday centerpiece, or as a baby gift outfitted with “buns in the oven”, of

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Sizzling Hot Redux 

Here’s a more zoomed-out and head-on view of Julia’s retro oven cookies. Now you can see the contoured cookie hood over the stove in the background, as well as more of the stenciled and airbrushed “linoleum” floor in the foreground

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Oven O’Plenty

There’s just so much happening on and around this single oven cookie. First, it’s nestled up against embossed “brick wall” cookies. The clock and plates on those walls are royal icing transfers with rubber-stamped fondant detailing. The pie and bowl

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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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