Julia loves the rubber-stamping technique because it’s a quick and easy way to add lavish detail to cookies. Here, it was used to create the beautiful bird that is the focal point of this box. For heart box assembly tips,
That you will be once you catch a glimpse of this variation of Julia’s 3-D heart box cookie! Sans any stenciling, it still stuns with a combination of perfectly smooth icing, an intricately piped lace border, oversized marbled rose cookies,
Another variation of Julia’s famous heart box project! This pink cookie box is especially eye-catching, thanks to the richly detailed stenciling on its outer rim and the custom-printed wafer paper used for the vintage valentine insert. For more information about working with wafer
Not sure you’re ready to take the leap to a fully 3-D heart box cookie? No worries! The lids alone make wonderful Valentine’s Day gifts. For tips about stenciling and rubber-stamping, the primary techniques used on these lids, check out
This perfume bottle-turned-place card made quite the statement on Julia’s Valentine’s Day table. And guests, of course, loved the personalized touch. Want to make some too?! Jump over to Julia’s YouTube channel for all of the instructions.
Aren’t the details on Julia’s perfume bottle place cards just heavenly? Every touch, from the romantic font on the parchment slip to the tiny ruby-red locket, signals that these place cards were crafted from Julia’s heart. In fact, guests loved
Everyone will want to stockpile these treats, what with the attention to detail on top! While their needlepoint effect looks complicated, it’s actually quite easy once you master the basics of outlining (to create the grid) and flooding (to fill it). For more information
Pâte à choux is most often associated with pastry cream-filled puffs and éclairs, but here Julia stuffed her puffs with smoked fish and caviar to ring in the New Year. Julia is also an avid vintage dish collector and pays
As you may have gathered, Julia loves edibles that double as décor – such as these ornaments strung from her chandelier. At her holiday party one Christmas, they provided ambience throughout the evening, and, when it was time for guests
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
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