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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…

When I think of Valentine’s Day flavors, I think of chocolate and raspberry. Therefore, these chocolate raspberry cookies are the perfect treat for your Valentine’s Day. Using freeze dried raspberries is key to this raspberry buttercream recipe. Raspberry buttercream with freeze dried raspberries will create the perfect consistency needed for stable buttercream. The raspberry buttercream…

When I think of Valentine’s Day flavors, I think of raspberry. And this raspberry buttercream with freeze dried raspberries is the perfect topping for your Valentine’s Day sugar cookies. Using freeze dried raspberries is key to this raspberry buttercream recipe. Raspberry buttercream with freeze dried raspberries will create the perfect consistency needed for stable buttercream….

Marshmallow buttercream brings back childhood memories of eating s’mores, marshmallow candies, and even just plain ol’ good marshmallows. Marshmallow is definitely a nostalgic flavor for many. This marshmallow buttercream brings the nostalgia and is absolutely perfect for decorating sugar cookies. It’s just the right texture, not too thick, not sticky at all, and it crusts!…