How-To Guides

Buttercream sugar cookies are becoming more and more popular and who’s to blame? Buttercream sugar cookies are soft, perfectly sweet, and super cute! Many people, including myself, find buttercream cookie decorating to be easier than royal icing. There’s only one consistency of frosting, no dry time between layers, and you can do many of the…

I have been on the search for the best dye free food coloring for buttercream cookies. I believe I have found the winner! In short, TruColor Natural Food Color are the best natural dyes I have found. In my review, you’ll notice that there are some imperfections, though, so make sure to read the whole…

Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday deals are here for 2024! I have been scouting out the best Black Friday deals for us bakers and cookie decorators and compiling my finds here. I’ve found deals on stand mixers, baking needs and accessories, and cute, fun items for gifting. Specifically, I’ve been watching for deals that…

Having a daughter with an egg allergy and as a family who avoids gluten, it was a must to come up with delicious gluten free egg free cookies. These cut out gluten free egg free cookies are perfect for sugar cookie decorating. I use my soft vanilla buttercream frosting recipe to decorate cookies. If you’d…

We’re in the middle of summer and buttercream doesn’t get along with heat all too well. I’m going to share how to keep buttercream cold so you can keep decorating. Maybe your issue is that your hands are too warm to decorate cookies or maybe your buttercream keeps breaking. This guide will teach you how…

Utilizing a projector for cookie decorating can take your decorating to the next level. You can use it as an aid to your writing skills, trace silhouettes, and create more uniform cookies within a set. In this post I will be sharing: what projector I use and recommend how to set up the projector what…

Marbled buttercream can take regular sugar cookies to a new level. Here I’ll share how to easily make marble buttercream frosting cookies. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law recently got married and I was asked to make some buttercream sugar cookies for the wedding reception, to which I happily obliged. The bride requested florals and either stripes…

One of the many questions I am asked as a buttercream cookie decorator is how to store sugar cookies with buttercream frosting. Fortunately, this is an easier task than it appears. Trust me, if you can store cupcakes, you can store sugar cookies with buttercream frosting. Here’s how you can store buttercream sugar cookies, whether…

Spring is in full swing and I am all about the raspberries. These roll out raspberry sugar cookies are absolutely amazing this time of year. Using real freeze dried raspberries, these raspberry sugar cookies are packed full of flavor. No artificial raspberry over here. You can top these raspberry sugar cookies with raspberry buttercream, vanilla…