Julia used the wet-on-wet marbling technique for the flowers and leaves in this project, whereas she stenciled the vase with royal icing and then accented with beadwork-consistency icing. For details of the stenciling technique, see Julia’s stenciling basics video. And to
Julia welcomes a respite every now and then from the painstakingly detailed cookie decorating work that she does. It’s at those times that she turns to simple but supremely satisfying recipes like this dessert. With alternating layers of crunchy espresso
Give this cookie as a special wedding favor, or cluster a few together for a never-before-seen wedding table centerpiece. Either way, the intricate needlepoint detailing is sure to amaze. For 3-D cookie cake assembly tips, check out Julia’s YouTube video.
Both the cookie wedding cake and platter shown here were decorated using the needlepoint technique – basically outlining and flooding taken to the extreme! For more details about this precision-piping technique, check out Julia’s YouTube video where she applies the same method
Another standing wedding cake cookie using the impressive and intricately piped needlepoint technique! For needlepoint technique tips, check out Julia’s YouTube video where she uses this same technique to create a stacked and stuffed stocking cookie. For more about stenciling
A top-down view of Julia’s pink cake pedestal cookie better reveals the elaborate stenciling on top. Long before cookie stencils became a thing, Julia was adapting larger cake stencils for use on cookies, just as she did here. For all
Made specially for one of Julia’s early international classes in Spain, these vintage-style May Day baskets filled with wafer paper flowers make marvelous Mother’s Day, birthday, or hostess gifts. For all of the decorating and assembly details, check out Julia’s YouTube
Every wafer paper flower bouquet needs a bow to tie up the loose stems. And, of course, every wafer paper flower needs a leaf or two. In this YouTube video, a companion to an earlier one about wafer paper flowers,
Julia focused her early YouTube videos on beginner cookie decorating techniques that provide a lot of lavish detail with a minimum of effort. The subject of one such video, these cookies show two beginner techniques in tandem: stenciling for the
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
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