Jack-o-Lantern Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing Glaze

A birthday party at the pumpkin patch!  How fun is that? 

I made these jack-o-lantern cookies for the party.  Bagged up and ready to be handed out to the kiddos.

I made a stencil so that the faces would be all alike.  I traced the stencil onto ONE cookie then changed my mind on that idea.  I put the stencil into the Kopykake projector and it was so much faster and more accurate!

A white stencil against the black in the kopykake worked like a charm.  It was amazing how well it showed up.  If you have a KK, try a stencil in there sometime!

Halloween Cookie Decorating Class

This was a class I taught in Frederick, MD - cookie decorating for beginners.

These are the samples that I made . . .

Here I am discussing "wet on wet" and "wet on dry" techniques . . .

Students making royal icing . . .

Students decorating their cookies . . .

Their cookies! . . .

It was a fun night!  Thank you all for coming out!

Halloween Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

Halloween is getting close!

I played with a bunch of different designs......

Tombstones, spider webs and a mummy.

Witch's hat, ghost, pumpkin and cute Frankenstein.

Sweet minis to go along with them.

These were super fun!  Monster cupcakes!?  Ha!  I got the idea here.

I made all of these quite some time ago.  Some of them were used to teach my cookie decorating class that was held last night.  More on that later!

Cookie Decorating Class in Frederick, MD

I'll be teaching another class on the basics of decorating sugar cookies with royal icing!  It will be held at The Kitchen Studio Cooking School in Frederick, MD on Thursday, October 4, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.  You can sign up here.

I'll be teaching how to make royal icing, get it to the right consistency, color it, and then decorate cookies like this for Halloween . . .

It's going to be great fun!