Yes, Julia’s May Day basket cookies actually hang too! Just be sure to use unwired, flat ribbon to hang them (wired ribbon or cord is more likely to break through the cookies). Of course, don’t overload them either. Lightweight wafer
Now for a closer view of Julia’s vintage-style May Day baskets – one that lets you better behold the beauty of the rubber-stamped sides and delicate wafer paper flowers. For flower how-tos, see this YouTube video by Julia. And for all
Julia made these spring-y beauties with floral-printed wafer paper and assorted paper punches, and used them to fill 3-D cookie May Day baskets shown elsewhere in this gallery. While wafer paper is edible, it’s flavorless and papery (naturally), so it’s
These chocolate lace cups are a great project to tackle prior to attempting Julia’s chocolate cake wraps. They’re much smaller (obviously) and wrapped around a parchment paper-lined cylinder, so there’s little risk of the chocolate setting prior to wrapping, and
Here’s a closer view of one of Julia’s early Fabergé egg designs where the perimeter was stenciled and the large cookie flowers inside were marbled. For more details about both of these techniques and many others, check out Julia’s book
The vignette inside this cookie egg was made with four techniques: airbrushing and stenciling for the sky; rubber-stamping for the chick and daffodil; and then painting to add color to the stamped images. For paint, Julia chose to extend liqua-gel food
As always, Julia likes to put twists on her cookie designs. Here’s another pink Fabergé Easter egg, this time with a double-decker cookie vignette inside. The bunny was stamped and dusted to add color, and the flowers and clouds are
Hesitant to make fully 3-D cookies that stand on their own? An easy alternative for Julia’s Fabergé Easter egg project is to prop up the eggs in bowls of pastel sanding sugar. Pssst . . . it’s really not so
Zooming in on the pink version of Julia’s place card cookie, you can more clearly see that the large rose was rubber-stamped, whereas Julia’s name was stenciled with royal icing. For the complete place card lesson on YouTube, see Julia’s
Julia’s stenciled cookie box is special enough, but the embedded monogram window gives it extra power. Remember: Personalizing cookies is one of the best ways to show the lucky recipients how much you care. For all of the assembly details,
Who needs (or wants) green beer on St. Paddy’s Day when you can have Baileys Irish Cream ice cream instead? Though, after some arm-twisting, Julia did work a little beer into the recipe [insert devilish smile] . . . Suitably
That’s right! It’s a completely unexpected cookie wedding cake! Its sides are decorated with a combination of stenciling and rubber-stamping, and the “tiers” are topped with modeling chocolate bows and real sugar-coated roses. For all of the assembly details, check
These cookies weren’t only part of the wedding festivities; they were the centerpiece! Cookie boxes, ranging from 5 to 1 3/4 inches across, were stacked on other cookies to create these 3-D table toppers. The cookie “cake” plate was stenciled
And that’s no joke! The fine needlepoint pattern on this cookie cake’s panels was achieved by first piping a tight grid using royal icing of outlining consistency. The spaces in the grid were then filled with a combination of white
Here’s another early wedding cake cookie crafted by Julia. In this case, the pink side panels were stenciled with brown royal icing and then later detailed with white outlining icing and blue icing of beadwork consistency. All icing was allowed to
For these edible place cards, Julia was careful to choose icing colors that coordinated with the cream, gold, and peach in her gorgeous rose plates. Brown is always a great choice if you’re going for a vintage look as Julia
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