Seriously! These frames and canvases are 100-percent cookie! The canvases were iced and rubber-stamped and then accented with multicolor petal and luster dusts. The large frame was iced and then stenciled before it was detailed with thick royal icing. And the gilding on the
Or maybe several?! Julia loves to display cookies en masse for lots of visual impact. If you’re going to use a wide variety of decorating techniques, as she has here, remember to tie everything together with a tight color scheme.
A mixture of red transferware, pink hobnail glass, and tons of garden-fresh flowers, all loosely arranged, gave Julia’s teatime table a truly dreamy look. For more on this tea party, take a look at Julia’s feature in Where Women Cook magazine, which
Rather than evenly distribute the flowers in her arrangements, such as these at her Where Women Cook tea and cookie party, Julia likes to group single varieties in small clusters to mimic the way they might be plucked from Mother Nature. This
For the menus for her Where Women Cook tea party, Julia emulated the patterns in her hodgepodge of red transferware china used to deck the tabletop. Because each china pattern was slightly different, some visual continuity across party elements was key
To keep her tea party prep minimal and stress-free, Julia gave some of the tried-and-true recipes in her book Cookie Swap a quick makeover. Here, the raspberry jam in her brownie recipe was replaced with Grand Marnier and orange marmalade,
Well, the dish is, but the cookies are just transferware lookalikes – albeit compelling ones! Julia made the patterns with the rubber-stamping technique, a quick and easy method for imparting lavish designs on cookies. For more details about this decorating
This closer look at Julia’s transferware-style cookies just goes to show that lavish detail can be achieved simply by choosing the right rubber stamps. These rose and bird stamps are from Red Lead Paperworks, a shop in St. Louis where Julia
Made for Julia’s tea party featured in Where Women Cook in 2012, this place card cookie relies on the rubber-stamping technique to convey its sweet message. Julia also took a shortcut and propped the place card in a mound of
Yet another place card cookie made for Julia’s 2012 tea party featured in Where Women Cook! It’s so easy to change up the sentiments in this party favor just by using a different rubber stamp. For rubber-stamping details and assembly
During her early decorating years, Julia had a thing for panorama cookies (stacked frame-style cookies) like this one for Easter. Here, she decorated the bottom cookie using printed wafer paper and embellished the top frame with a simple royal icing
In case you doubted that Julia once had a thing for panorama cookies (stacked frame-style cookies), here’s another example that confirms her fetish! Instead of using a printed wafer paper image on the bottom cookie as she did on her
Here’s an application of the needlepoint technique all in white. Even though these heart cookies don’t involve multiple colors, you’ll still need to budget a fair bit of time to pipe them. (It took Julia half an hour to detail
The stenciling technique, shown on these two hearts, is near and dear to Julia, largely because it’s quick and requires little previous decorating experience. Yes, even a young child can do it! Just swipe icing with a steady hand over
Can you believe it? More swoon-worthy spins on the stenciling technique as applied to hearts! The big red and pink numbers show off Julia’s “mirror image” method, which uses different parts of the same stencil with different royal icing colors. A simple
As you probably know by now, Julia loves repurposing – and not just old menus and cards, but everything! Here, she used vintage lace, a brooch, and an antique wedding photo printed on glass to dress up her niece’s bridal
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