Beginners Sugar Cookies Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

In this lesson Jhanine will cover the basics of cookie design and explain the different types of cookie cutters available as well as show you how to create your very own custom cookies with the use of templates.

You will learn just how basic the recipe is to create perfect, no spread and delicious sugar cookies.

There are many recipes for royal icing out there, however, in this lesson, you will learn how to make a shelf stable, not too hard and reliable royal icing using Jhanine’s own recipe.

Now that you have made your royal icing, you need to learn just how to use it effectively for icing sugar cookies. This lesson covers how to colour royal icing as well as how to achieve the ever important royal icing consistencies.

There are a few simple techniques required to achieve a perfect, clean and flat sugar cookie that is ready to decorate. And in this lesson, you’ll learn them all!

YAY! Now it’s time to start decorating your cookies! In this lesson, Jhanine will show you how to outline then flood your cookies for a lovely clean canvas required for a beautiful end result.

You will be surprised just how simple it is to take your cookies to the next level with just a few simple and effective techniques. Apply the final decorations and finishing touches to your cookie to create a beautiful piece of delicious, edible art.

There’s no point making these cute cookies if they just sit there and go stale right? Also, for those that want to either gift or sell their decorated sugar cookies, you’ll need effective, financially viable and aesthetically pleasing packaging. Jhanine covers both how to store your sugar cookies for optimal freshness as well as several ways you can package your beautiful works of art for both gifting and sale purposes.

In this lesson Jhanine will offer suggestions on other outcomes that can be achieved using all of the recipes and skills that you have been shown throughout the tutorial.

Pricing cookies is definitely on a different scale to pricing cakes. Jhanine will run through the pricing structure that she uses for the sale of decorated sugar cookies. Don’t sell yourself short! You’re time, talent and effort are all worth it!