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The Decorating Center
Whether with the kids or on your own, decorating is a lot of fun. We would like to help. On this page you will find suggestions, techniques, tools and supplies.
On this page you will find suggestions, techniques, tools and supplies. At The Decorating Center, you will find . . .
Cookie Decorating Tips Get these eight tips for prettier cookies.
- How to Paint Cookies This is a terrific project for the kids. You can also paint cookies pretty enough to hang on the Christmas tree. Fascinating.
- How to Color Sugar Crystals Save money and hassle. Buy white crystals and color just what you any shade that you want with your food coloring set.
- How to Decorate with a Drizzle A drizzle can be simple, easy and very attractive. Learn how.
- How to Decorate the Edges of a Cookie Make your cookies dazzling with decorated edges. Use crushed candies, sprinkles, nuts, or chocolate.
- How to Cut Bar Cookies Make your bar cookies, neat, uniform, and professional.
- How to Make the Very Best Sugar Cookies Learn the tricks to the very best sugar cookies.
- Baking with Kids: A free e-book
Free e-book!
- A Baker’s Cookie Guide. You’ll love this three volume set with techniques, recipes, pictures, and a troubleshooting guide.
Featured Recipe
- How to Make Seven minute or Divinity Frosting. Divinity frosting has been a long time favorite and well it should be. We know of no lighter, fluffier frosting.
How to Select a Decorating Set
- At the heart of your cookie and cake decorating, is a decorating set. It can be simple and economical or expensive. It can have a barrel or a bag. The bags can be disposable or reusable. Here’s an overview to help you choose what is best for you.
Tips for making great icings:
1. Start with enough icing to cover the entire cake. Matching shades later can be difficult.
2. Dip a toothpick into the food coloring gel and then dab it into the icing. Add a little more until you get the right color.
3. Use a new toothpick each time that you add color so that you do not get icing in your food coloring jar.
4. Deep colors such as red may take more food coloring to achieve. To use less coloring for black and brown, start with chocolate icing.
5. Don't get your icing too dark. Color tends to deepen over time.
6. Royal icing often takes more food coloring than buttercream to reach the same shade.
Special!
Chocolate Melting Pot
A Favorite Recipe
Painted Cookies
How to Bake!
The Perfect Sugar Cookies
Essential Ingredients for Cookie and Cake Decorating
Here you will find essentials like meringue powder, food coloring gels, chocolate wafers and more.
Essential Tools for Cookie and Cake Decorating
- Here you will find decorating sets, icing spatulas, a chocolate melting pot, and more.
- Chocolate Melting Pot
- Pastry Bag
- Decorating Set
- Icing Spatula
- Baking Sheet
- Spatula
- Coming soon! Brushes
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