Add verve to your next party with these cookie crackers filled with candies and edible greetings printed on frosting sheets. Julia crafted the cookie tubes in two different ways: the first, by icing together cookie rings (bottom cracker) and, the
Yes, this chocolate lace-wrapped cake is the star that launched Julia’s YouTube channel back in 2013 when the video featuring it went viral. Though Julia started making multi-tier chocolate lace cakes back in the late 1990s when she had her
Julia’s always a fan of edibles that do doubly duty – that both taste great and look so good that they can stand in as table décor. This hand-piped chocolate doily is a case in point. Julia made this large
Inspired by the widely circulated cake zoetropes by Alexandre DUBOSC and team, Julia decided to tackle a cookie cake zoetrope (a cookie animation on a cake) for her headline demo at the 2013 Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show. Kerry Vincent,
Julia’s garden plot at her summer home in Maine is overrun with rhubarb every spring – much to her pleasure! Rhubarb can be a divisive ingredient – one seems to either love or hate it – but this imaginative coffee
When seafood goes straight from the water to your local market – as it does on Julia’s island home-away-from-home in Stonington, Maine – resist the temptation to dress it up with fancy sauces or dips or lots of mayo and
Here’s one of Julia’s very early springtime sets, mostly to help you appreciate her own personal decorating evolution. (We all start somewhere!) At the time, Julia was trying to perfect her skills through practice of almost every decorating technique under
And a bevy of techniques! For these Easter baskets, Julia combined stenciling (the bow and leaves on the bottom basket), needlepoint (the band on the center basket), and appliqué work (the floral bouquets) to add extra cookie excitement! For more details on these techniques
And that’s “attack” in the best of ways, because, as you can see here, the possibilities for decorating cookie plaques are limitless! For this set, Julia tested her technique repertoire by marbling and stenciling some of the cookie edges, rubber-stamping the messages,
Let’s look more closely at Julia’s earlier message plaque set. This particular cookie commemorates a little girl’s birthday and combines three techniques (stenciling, rubber-stamping, and beadwork) for extra panache. For all of these technique details, check out Julia’s book Ultimate Cookies.
Among Julia’s very first 3-D cookies designed for Easter 2013, these baskets stand out due to their intricate needlepoint patterns. For details about the needlepoint technique, check out this video on Julia’s YouTube channel. And for information about the simple
The needlepoint technique is pretty darn time consuming, as this detail shot of Julia’s 3-D Easter baskets might suggest. Be sure to set aside ample time should you choose this decorating route. Basically, needlepoint involves piping a delicate grid of
It’s easy to create elaborate patterns on cookies, such as these 3-D baskets, without a massive time investment. All you need is a stencil (Julia masked off a larger cake stencil for these basket sides), a steady hand, and a
Here’s a closer view of Julia’s contoured Easter basket cookies. The baskets are definitely cool, but let’s talk about the flowers inside them for a bit. They’re small cookies mounted on sticks (aka cookie pops) whose designs were made with
Julia’s great grandmother, affectionately called “Nana” by the Usher kids, served this ginger-coriander cake all by itself at Christmastime. (It is steamed, and has a high water content, so it is incredibly moist.) But, being the more-is-more person that Julia
How Christmassy is this red-and-green salsa?! Julia devised this delish recipe back in 2012, hoping it would be a light, fresh counterpoint to the traditionally heavy items on her Christmas menu (think: turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing) – and it
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