Cookie Sensations is a step-by-step guide to creating edible art. It features templates, detailed instructions, illustrations and information on resources. Everything you need to succeed is in this book, including recipes for cookies and icings, directions for coloring icings, instructions on master your decorating technique and even tips on fixing mistakes.
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About the Author
Meaghan Mountford is head decorator and manager of Bundles of Cookies in Bethesda, Maryland. She has been featured on theTodayshow and in the Washingtonian, where her cookies were named the "best of Washington." Among her longtime clients are top corporations, media networks, professional sports teams, and both Washington and Hollywood celebrities.
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I've been a professional cookie decorator for over a decade. My cookies have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brides Magazine, and Chocolatie. I'm the Edible Crafts editor at the popular website CraftGossip.com, and I write the blog The Decorated Cookie. My first book is "Cookie Sensations," and my second is "Sugarlicious: 50 Cute and Clever Treats for Every Occasion." I live in Washington, D.C. with my husband, daughter and three cats.
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
By Tanya Hearn
Format:Paperback
This is a great book about decorated cookies. It is easily read and understood and the technique can be completed by a beginner to intermediate cake/cookie decorator. The book includes a nice history of cookies and cutters and includes alot of illustrations through out. She lists a nice selection of suppliers and several delicious receipes for cookies and icings. There is a full page listing of color combinations, helping even a beginner decorator make lots of lovely shades of icings. She also includes a graduated color guide to help newbies and has a color chart page that gives you an idea of which colors look best together including a break down of when using a certain color for the outlines, what colors work best for the fill-in. The book also includes many cookie styles for birthdays to wedding, holidays to baby showers along with detailed instructions, photos and templates in case you don't have the cutter used or don't want to purchase one. The fill in method is not the color flow method as you can still see the lines where the icing was piped in, but if you chose to using the color flow method it would work well with these designs. I usually use the flow method myself but after seeing this more textured look, I have been incorporating it into my decorating and am finding the customers really like the look of them. It adds alot of visual interest to the cookie instead of it being just flat. I have also mixed the flow method and the textured method of this book together and it really works well together (ie.. flow method face and textured method clothing). All in all a great book for lot of fun ideas and a great deal for the price. I recommend this to any cake/cookie decorating library.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By S. Rauch
Format:Paperback
I purchased this book last year when I was strugging to come up with color schemes for my cookies. The book contains a section on mixing colors and how to coordinate a palette that's invaluable. In fact, I pull out this book everytime I make cookies to get my colors right. I also think her idea of adding vegetable shortening to royal icing to get a creamier texture is brilliant. It does make for a "bumpier" surface but the tradeoff in mouthfeel is worth it. I'm all for cookies that taste good -- not cookies that only look perfect. I don't think that this one book contains all that a cookie baker will want to know about the craft, but I think it's a very good addition to have to your personal reference library.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By A. Long
Format:Paperback
This book is GREAT, AWESOME, FABULOUS, FANTASTIC!!! I just can't say enough!!
I am a stay at home mom always looking for some new activities to do. I have never baked anything but choclate chip cookies and cupcakes from a box, and I wanted to try something new even though I am a bit challenged in the kitchen. :-)
This book outlines everything you need to get started and even tells you where you can find your "equipment". At no time did I feel overwhelmed in getting started.
My 4 year old son and I, plus my neighbor and her kids (6yrs & 14yrs) had the best time decorating our Easter cookies. The kids especially enjoyed eating the last of the icing from the icing bags!! This is a great activity to pass a rainy day or cold afternoon stuck inside. My cookies didn't look like the author's, but I could see I was getting better at decorating with each cookie I did. I can't wait to bake some more!!
I am a stay at home mom always looking for some new activities to do. I have never baked anything but choclate chip cookies and cupcakes from a box, and I wanted to try something new even though I am a bit challenged in the kitchen. :-)
This book outlines everything you need to get started and even tells you where you can find your "equipment". At no time did I feel overwhelmed in getting started.
My 4 year old son and I, plus my neighbor and her kids (6yrs & 14yrs) had the best time decorating our Easter cookies. The kids especially enjoyed eating the last of the icing from the icing bags!! This is a great activity to pass a rainy day or cold afternoon stuck inside. My cookies didn't look like the author's, but I could see I was getting better at decorating with each cookie I did. I can't wait to bake some more!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
So many great ideas!
This book keeps giving me ideas! It has templates and layouts! Very fun for a beginner or some one that has been cookie decorating for a long time!
Published 25 days ago by Tanya Headdy
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected
This book is ok. I was looking for more of an idea book. The first few pages are about the history of cookie cutters???... Read more
Published on February 9, 2011 by KCookieCakes
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting
Wasn't too crazy about the book. I was looking for alot more elegant ideas.
Published on November 23, 2009 by Cj Kephart
5.0 out of 5 stars
ONE OF THE BEST OOKIE BOOKS!!!!!
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST COOKIE DECORATING BOOKS ; GREAT FOR A BEGINNER!!!!!
Published on September 8, 2009 by A. R SCOTT
4.0 out of 5 stars
good cookie!
The recipe for royal icing in this book is scrumptious! It taste like "Cookies by Design". The cookies, however aren't spectacular, but they are all very good. Read more
Published on April 21, 2008 by The Sugary
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Illustration
This book has some wonderful pictures and idea. Unfortunately it doesn't give clear enough instruction on the decorating. Read more
Published on April 12, 2008 by Raymond Zaracki
3.0 out of 5 stars
Truthfully - just average
I've only just flipped through this book, but it's average at best. The color chart is the best feature. There are some fun ideas, but nothing truly spectacular. Read more
Published on April 3, 2008 by Jennie M. Tracy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Looking for a cookie book? You MUST get this one...
I have never experienced a cookbook such as this. Incredible,informative, and ingenious.
Published on February 27, 2007 by William E
5.0 out of 5 stars
BEST instructional cookie book EVER
This is the best instructional baking/decorating book that I have ever read. It is interesting and helpful, and the pictures are beautiful! Read more
Published on February 12, 2007 by Beth Cox Murray
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cookies . . . not just for breakfast anymore!
I've ordered cookies from the author and they were absolutely amazing! I've already started to purchase the necessary supplies as explained in the book. Read more
Published on January 21, 2007 by D. Felder
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