Recipes and Tutorials

Yes, you can freeze cookies! However, it's important that you freeze them at the right stage of baking and icing, and know how to properly defrost them. Always experiment first. Your freezer or cookie recipe may vary from the ones...

This is my all time favorite royal icing recipe! This recipe uses 2 lbs of confectioners sugar but you mix in 1lb at a time. If you buy a 2lb bag just eyeball half the bag. This recipe also doubles...

Royal icing (sometimes abbreviated to RI) is one specific type of icing that's used for cookies. What makes it different than buttercream or "frosting" is that royal icing hardens as it dries, so the people delighting in your cookies will...

With a little practice you can be an expert at cookie stenciling! In this video I will show you how to use a cookie stencil using a stencil frame or a simple set of magnets. I'll also show you a...

Here's my favorite chocolate cookie recipe! 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 3/4 cup salted butter, softened 1/4 cup dark corn syrup 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2/3 cup cocoa powder - try Genie's Dream Cocoa No 3 Ultra!  1/4 teaspoon baking powder...

One of the questions we get asked a lot at The Cookie Countess, is how to best package Paint Your Own (PYO) cookies with our ready made paint palettes. Well, we have the answer! We sell a few products that...

Hello everyone, Katie here! I hope all of you are hanging in there while sheltering in place. While I don't have kids yet, I will in about 7 - 9 weeks when my first baby is due. I know many of my friends...

Another week of quarantine, another week of trying to figure out ways to entertain these kids. Don’t they know mommy is tired???? I made and flooded cookies this week, but I must have been having an off day, because I...

One of the side effects of being “the mom who bakes” is that people think I am baking 24/7, even during the Coronapocalypse. My parish priest actually just sent an email to check in on me and the kids (sweetest...