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Lemon Cutout Cookie Recipe for Cookie Cutters

How to make lemon flavored cookies for cookie cutters. These delicious and easy cookies hold their shape when baked. The secret to getting a cookie...

Wilmalyn Sanchez

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Non-Toxic versus Edible: What's the Difference?

Want to know the quickest way to start a fight? Venture into a Facebook cookie group and say that you used non-toxic luster dust on...

Sarah Mills

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Saving Time and Energy with Royal Icing Transfers

If you're anything like me, you might feel like you don't have an artistic bone in your body (cookie decorating skills aside), and simply winging...

Sarah Mills

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How to Make Pretty Fall Cookies Using Marble-Dipping and Airbrush Techniques

I absolutely love Fall, and all the gorgeous colors it brings—not to mention the cooler temperatures (baking in summer heat and humidity is high on...

Sarah Mills

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How to Store Cookie Dough

If you ever find yourself with leftover cookie dough in your bowl, or—gasp—you’re one of those amazing people who thinks ahead for future orders (could...

Sarah Mills

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How to Decorate a Spooky Graveyard Cookie with Airbrush and Royal Icing

This particular technique involves stenciling the graveyard with both airbrush and royal icing, but if you don’t have an airbrush, you can still make a...

Sarah Mills

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The Cookie Countess at CookieCon! The Office parody and keynote speech

Here's a recap of Hillary's keynote speech at CookieCon, Orlando 2023. And watch our parody episode of The Office! You won't want to miss this!...

Hillary Ramos

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How to Decorate Butterfly Cookie Sticks

Cookie sticks are a fun and easy shape that can be great for any occasion or season.  Here at The Cookie Countess, we feel the...

Sarah Mills

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How To Make Funny Face Cookies: Easy cookies with a big impact!

Remember when our parents used to tell us not to play with our food? Nuh-uh, couldn't be us! We're not like regular moms--we're cool moms...

Sarah Mills

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Mixing Methods: Different Techniques, Different Results

When it comes to baking cookies, not all mixing is the same. Recipes direct you to beat, cream, and whip with no further explanation of...

Wilmalyn Sanchez

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How to Keep Your Cookies from Spreading

At the beginning of my cookie journey, I found a recipe that I absolutely loved taste-wise, but that had me ending up with amorphous blob-shaped...

Sarah Mills

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Food scales: Weighing the Options

Have you ever experienced different results when making a recipe more than once?  Maybe it tasted different, or just didn’t look the same?  If you...

Wilmalyn Sanchez

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