Trending: Cupcake and Cookie Texture Tops!

Photos courtesy of Country Kitchen Sweet Art.

I'm crazy about cupcakes and cookies and love to experiment with new ways to decorate and embellish. What's really cool is that the texture tops are adaptable to cupcakes and sugar cookies! I can unleash my creative juices or get neat instructions and seasonal ideas from Country Kitchen Sweet Art:

Delicious and decorative way to embellish your sugar cookies with poinsettia, wreath, and ribbon cookie texture mats.

These scroll cookies are so elegant, they can be used for gifting, bridal shower favors, and a host of other special events! To take them over the top, I might "paint" them with edible gold or silver dust.

Get the kids into the holiday spirit by using food safe markers to decorate your sugar cookies and help them create their own cookie bouquet!

Imagine serving or gifting red velvet cupcakes embellished with these fondant roses! Country Kitchen Sweet Art's Cupcake texture tops make it possible to get professional looking results!

Not sure how to use the texture mats? Not a problem. Check out the tutorial on the Country Kitchen Sweet Art's website. {Scroll down the page for instructions}.

It's A Cookie!

Play and then eat a treat! This is what's in store for the lucky partygoers who play Chinese Checkers on this edible shortbread cookie board.  Candy coated chocolate covered peanuts are used as the "marbles".
For directions on how to make this unique "game", click here.  A template for the board itself can be found here.

Love is the Message - Valentine Cupcakes!

Bake up some sweet heart-shaped cupcakes with this ingenious nonstick silicone cupcake liner by Fancy Flours. Fancy Flours also sells a variety of cookie stencils, and really cute heart and love cookie cutters.

It's a Cookie, Lil' Wedding Cake!

Can you believe that these lil' wedding cakes are chocolate covered sandwich cookies? Fancy Flours shares the fool-proof directions and sells the mold and robin cutters.

Edible Lady Bugs!

I'm baking a difference with Frosting for the Cause.  Find out how I made these not so little Lady Bug sugar cookies, step by step,  on Sunday, July 10th at Frosting for the Cause website. While you are there why not consider joining the cause and giving back using your skills at cupcake or cookie decorating.

Cookies!

I want to give a "shout out" to all the great folks at All Hands in Motion and NY Foundling.  Teaching hard of hearing and foster kids and their families the joy of cake and cookie decorating has really been a blast!

Sometimes we cakers get caught up in the competitiveness of cake decorating and the adulation of others, but sharing your skills and making an impact upon others with your artistry and talent, to me, is what cake decorating and sugar art is all about. Don't forget to give back.

Tie-Dye Cookie Tutorial!

Get your tie-dye on and learn how to create this cool cookie design at Sweet Sugar Belle!

Photo AlbumCelebrity cookies and cakesThe perfect treats to spice up any Os

Edible Cookie Art!

Art Gallery Cookies promotes the work of new and established artists with their one-of-a-kind cookies. Each cookie collection is executed by a different artist who receives a commission upon the sale of their sweet collection. The Jazz Collection shown here was painted by The Wall Flower Studio.