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
Edible place cards, like these made of frosting sheets and royal icing, are cool for the very reason that you can eat them. But they’ve got a few other big pluses: (1) they won’t get mixed up on the tabletop
Here’s proof that Julia’s famous frosting sheet place cards are easy to change up. To decorate these Christmas chargers, she dispensed with her usual white sheets and amped up the concept with bright green instead. Ivory royal icing was then
Julia loves breathing new life into old things. On this Christmas, she refurbished vintage gift tags and turned them into keepsake-quality place cards on her holiday table. To see the simple how-to, check out her YouTube tutorial.
Julia rarely takes a cookie-cutter approach to anything – even when she created these Christmas place cards. She could have easily saved time by making them all identical, but she mixed up the ribbons and backing papers to add more
For one of her first teaching trips to Portugal, Julia recreated her famous heart box cookies using stenciling, rubber-stamping, and dusting, among other techniques. She hopes you’ll fall head over heels for these styles that traveled around the world and
More heart boxes from Julia’s early European tour! The box in the foreground uses the needlepoint technique for all of the intricate detailing in the center. For more information about this technique, take a gander at Julia’s YouTube video tutorial on the
Let’s cozy up to Julia’s needlepoint box for a bit. While needlepoint involves nothing more than outlining and flooding, it is not for the faint of heart. Julia typically pipes about 121 to 169 tiny squares per square inch for
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