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The cookie cookbook for the Instagram generation; stunningly beautiful photographs of inventive and inspired decorated cookies from a social media baking star.

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#1 Amazon New Release ! Life is short celebrate with cookies!
Follow along with photograph-filled instructions: A Cookie to Celebrate is an instant cookie-baking classic, with recipes that are gorgeously photographed and meticulously tested along with tons of decorating and packaging ideas. These inventive and inspired cookies will be perfect for sharing with your friends on Instagram or in person!

Desserts made to impress at your next party: What sets A Cookie to Celebrate apart is its step-by-step instructions for gorgeously personalized cookies for all kinds of occasions, from birthdays to anniversaries to the changing of the seasons. These cookies are ornamental edibles that are perfect for the holidays, and because the recipes are easy to scale up or down, they´re great for cookie exchanges, gift-giving, kids´ parties, and potlucks.

Bake cookies with professional-level flavor and design at home: Jana Douglass is the founder of Jana Lee´s Bake Shop, an artisan bake shop specializing in custom decorated cut-out cookies for special events and celebrations. In A Cookie to Celebrate, she shares her baking expertise and recipes as a veteran baker, inspiring you to create your own new classics. Each cookie in this collection is guaranteed to be a stand-out.

Reimagined recipes and exciting new treats: A Cookie to Celebrate is filled with new twists on cookie concepts, like Engagement Ring Cookies and Baby Onesie Cookies confections decorated for every season and reason. Try something new with ice cream cone cookies with sprinkles in summer, conversation heart cookies for Valentine´s Day, or even decorating a birthday cake with cookies!

A Cookie to Celebrate is full of cookie baking tips, recipes, and presentation ideas. With Jana´s cookbook, you will discover:

How to expertly roll, cut, and bake your cookie dough
Helpful tools and techniques for coloring and piping icing
Creative ways to spice up classics or try something new!

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Foreword: A Cookie to Celebrate

Table of Contents

Introduction

Cookie basics: rolling, cutting, baking, etc.

How to make sugar cookies (recipe)
Roll dough to desired thickness

Cut with desired shapes

Bake to perfection- puffy centers.

Royal Icing 101

How to make RI (recipe)

COLORING the icing

How to make pipe/flood consistencies and bag icing

Storage

Decorating Basics (things to know before you get started)

Helpful tools

Practicing lines on paper

How to pipe and flood BASICS

Spring Theme Chapter

Tulip Cookie

How to make leaves

Bunny Cookie (using the same cutter turned upside down)

Simple Faces

Lemon flavored icing for Spring

Summer Theme

Ice cream cone cookies

How to make homemade sprinkles

Different colored sprinkles for different themes (4th of July)

Fall theme

Pumpkin Cookie (I am thinking pink or more on the peach side)

How to create texture on cookies

Adding a jack o´lantern face to the pumpkin for Halloween

Adding florals to the pumpkin for Thanksgiving

How to make royal icing flowers

Winter Theme

Snowflake Cookie

Using sprinkles for added sparkles

Hot Coco Cookies

How to make (and use) royal icing transfers

Wedding Theme

Wedding Ring

How to use luster dusts to create realistic metallics

Heart Cookie with text

Tips on how to add text to cookies

Add a nod to Valentine´s Day

Birthday Theme

Birthday Cake Cookie

Tips on how to make candles look realistic

Balloon Cookies

How to use the wet on wet RI technique

Baby Theme

Onesie Cookie

How to make ruffles with royal icing

Holiday Theme (specifically Christmas)

Santa Face

How to create characters without complex faces

Note to Santa

Edible Markers

Writing notes to kids, etc. any time of the year!

Finishing your Cookies

Drying cookies

Packaging Cookies

cellophane bags, etc.

Display Ideas

Party platters

Our signature wedding ring cookie tied to a champagne bottle

Place Settings

How to keep cookies fresh

Conclusion

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