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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 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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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
How to Keep Your Cookies from Spreading

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
Baker's Math Unveiled: Mastering the Art of Recipe Ratios and Yield

Baker's Math Unveiled: Mastering the Art of Recipe Ratios and Yield

Have you ever wondered how you can scale up or down a cookie recipe depending on how many cookies you need to bake or how...

Wilmalyn Sanchez
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How to Avoid Color Bleed

Color bleed happens when pigment from a dark section of royal icing is absorbed by an adjacent light section of icing along their border. This...

Sarah Mills
Sarah's Take on Scribe Tools: Whats the Deal?

Sarah's Take on Scribe Tools: Whats the Deal?

Scribe tools are as ubiquitous in the cookie world as piping tips are—they’re everywhere!  And they can definitely range in price and style.  So what’s...

Sarah Mills
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Piping with Royal Icing: The Basics

Who among us hasn't watched a cookie decorating tutorial in fascination, thinking “I can totally do that”? The confident and capable cookiers in these videos...

Sarah Mills