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How to Make Sage Green Icing or Frosting

How to Make Sage Green Icing or Frosting

Sage is one of those colors that may seem easy to make - but it's not! Sage is a complicated mix of greens, blues, grays, even...

Wilmalyn Sanchez
How to Make Maroon or Burgundy Icing and Frosting

How to Make Maroon or Burgundy Icing and Frosting

Burgundy and maroon are popular colors for fall, especially for events like weddings, showers (baby, bridal), and birthdays. Many sports teams also use maroon as...

Wilmalyn Sanchez
How to Make Brown Icing without Brown Food Color

How to Make Brown Icing without Brown Food Color

You need to make brown icing, but you don't have brown food color! Don't fret, we have recipes to make brown frosting even if you don't have...

Wilmalyn Sanchez
When to Use Parchment, Silicone, or Mesh Mats for Baking Cookies

When to Use Parchment, Silicone, or Mesh Mats for Baking Cookies

Parchment paper, Silpat, mesh baking mats — oh my! There are so many options for baking surfaces, it can make your head spin. Figuring out which...

Sarah Mills
What is a Cookie Cube?

What is a Cookie Cube?

Exclusively at The Cookie Countess! We reinvented the cookie box into a portable display unit for your creations. 👉Purchase them here! Designed by The Cookie Countess Made...

Hannah Hazelton
Helpful Tips for Writing with Royal Icing

Helpful Tips for Writing with Royal Icing

We frequently get asked for tips about how you can improve your writing technique for writing with royal icing, so we've compiled our best tips...

Emily Iden
How to Clean and Troubleshoot Your Airbrush Gun

How to Clean and Troubleshoot Your Airbrush Gun

The most important rule to owning an airbrush system is... *cue clouds parting and a choir of angels* CLEAN IT! By flushing the gun with...

Hillary Ramos
When You're Asked to Make Character Cookies or Difficult Cookies: 3 Solutions

When You're Asked to Make Character Cookies or Difficult Cookies: 3 Solutions

How to turn down requests for character cookies, and three solutions to offer instead. One of the most common requests a baker will get is for...

Hannah Hazelton
How to Stencil a Cookie with Royal Icing - Video Tutorial!

How to Stencil a Cookie with Royal Icing - Video Tutorial!

With a little practice you can be an expert at cookie stenciling! In this video I will show you how to use a cookie stencil...

Hillary Ramos
How To Color Royal Icing

How To Color Royal Icing

Royal icing (sometimes abbreviated to RI) is one specific type of icing that's used for cookies. What makes it different than buttercream or "frosting" is...

Hillary Ramos
How to Freeze Cookies

How to Freeze Cookies

Yes, you can freeze cookies! However, it's important that you freeze them at the right stage of baking and icing, and know how to properly...

Hillary Ramos
Tipless bags! What's the deal?

Tipless bags! What's the deal?

"Tipless" piping bags are a recent trend in cookie decorating that is here to stay! What are "tipless bags"? They are a thin, disposable pastry bag...

Hillary Ramos
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