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Grand in Green

Another grand feature of Julia’s Scandinavian Christmas Tree kit is that it allows you to change up colors and designs to your heart’s content! Here, the background set in this kit’s two-set stencil design was used mostly with green to

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Message Mania

Never at a loss for words, Julia loves to dress up her cookies with messages. She makes it super easy for you to do the same because the stencils in her Scandinavian Christmas Tree kit, used to make these cookies,

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Another Merry Message

Here’s another festive cookie that uses both the background and message/frame sets in Julia’s Scandinavian Christmas Tree Dynamic Duos™ stencil design. If you’d prefer, you can go message-less too, as the other cookies here demonstrate. Again, that’s the beauty of

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Stocking Stupendous

Aren’t these stuffed 3-D and 2-D Christmas stockings just stupendous?! Made with Julia’s October 2022 Kitchen Club project kit – which consists of three cutters, two stencil sets, and an instructional video – they add festive cheer to the holiday

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Joy to the World

Yes, Julia’s 3-D stocking cookies bring such joy, especially when stuffed with lollipops and other small candies. What an added surprise inside! Made with her October 2022 Kitchen Club kit, these stockings can be designed in so many ways. Here,

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Holiday Houndstooth

Sporting the second of two background patterns in Julia’s October 2022 Kitchen Club kit, this dimensional stocking cookie is certainly holiday-ready in green houndstooth. Comprised of two cookies iced back to back, it can’t be filled with candy like Julia’s

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Stuffed or Stuffer?

Whether you choose to stuff these stocking cookies with candy, as shown to the left, or use them as edible stocking stuffers, you can’t lose. Your family and friends will be delighted with these cookie gifts no matter what. Made

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Solo Stocking

Julia’s Christmas Stocking kit, part of her Kitchen Club Collection, is extra handy insofar as it allows you to easily scale Julia’s stocking project up or down depending on your available time. Here, a solo 2-D stocking still makes a

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Solo Stocking Redux

Yet another streamlined 2-D take on Julia’s Christmas Stocking project, this cookie utilizes just the background stencil set in Julia’s associated Kitchen Club kit. That set contains two background patterns: the houndstooth one in this stocking’s “body” and the botanical

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Stepped-Up Stocking

Julia stepped up the design of this 2-D stocking cookie by using both the background and message/frame stencil sets in her Christmas Stocking kit, part of her Kitchen Club Collection. The background set was used for the botanical print on

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On Message

This 2-D stocking cookie is clearly on message with its always-appropriate greeting of “PEACE”. Not only that, but the message is “on cookie” as opposed to being airbrushed and stenciled on a separate fondant appliqué. One of the beauties of

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Coffin Break

Yes, you’ll want to take a long coffin break (pun intended!) just to admire these 3-D coffin cookies, a few of the many cookie projects possible with Julia’s September 2022 Kitchen Club project kit. Make these coffins as individual party

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Coffin Break, Closer

Let’s creep a bit closer to Julia’s 3-D coffins so you can ooh and aah over the expert airbrushing and stenciling on top. Made with Julia’s Halloween Coffin and Skeleton kit from her Kitchen Club Collection, these cookies look spookily

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Graveyard Shift

Look closely, and you’ll see that a precisely airbrushed and stenciled skeleton cookie is keeping watch on this graveyard shift. In addition to containing all of the tools to make 3-D coffin cookies, Julia’s Halloween Coffin and Skeleton kit also

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To Die For

What’s perhaps most wonderful about Julia’s Dynamic Duos™ stencil designs is that the pieces in them can be mixed and matched ad infinitum, allowing so many different cookies to come from the same two stencil sets. Take this 3-D coffin

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No Bones About It

Make no bones about it – Julia’s Halloween Coffin and Skeleton kit, the debut kit in her Kitchen Club, is incredibly versatile. In addition to containing stencils and cutters to make wooden coffins, it’s got a skeleton stencil sized perfectly

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