Recipe Weekend: Creative Cookie Decorating: Buttercream Frosting Designs and Tips for Every Occasion by Emily Hutchinson, Johannah Chadwick

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An instant classic containing Emily Hutchinson’s 
never before shared cookie recipe!

Synopsis:

Emily Hutchinson, of The Hutch Oven, has spent years mastering the art of buttercream-frosted sugar cookies—and now she’s ready to share her secrets for creating her picture-perfect (and delicious) sweets.

In Creative Cookie Decorating, Emily will take you through the four seasons with a series of cookies for each, all while sharing her story—how she struggled after her young daughter’s death and later triumphed in the kitchen, turning pain into purpose. Relatable, passionate, and honest, Emily presents a collection of recipes and tips that will make you fall in love with her style and technique as well as the process of frosting traditional cut-out cookies that people will rave about for years to come.

Creative Cookie Decorating is unlike other cookie cookbooks because of Emily’s ability to elevate the typical cookie into a masterpiece that looks “too good to eat” but is too delicious not to.

Through hundreds of detailed, step-by-step photographs, you’ll learn how to roll, cut out, and create 100 different cookie designs as well as become familiar with the necessary steps to make perfect, smooth-crusting buttercream. In addition to basic, dairy-free, and gluten-free cookie recipes, you’ll get easy ideas for transforming your buttercream in flavor and design. With Emily’s help, you will be encouraged and inspired to make perfect and beautiful cookies for any event, party, or celebration.

Recipes include:

-Classic sugar cookie

- Gluten-free sugar cookie

- Dairy-free sugar cookie

- Chocolate sugar cookie

- Red velvet cookie

- Crusting buttercream

- Dairy-free buttercream

 - Honey glaze

- Berry buttercream

And more!

Review:

Need a simple cookie recipe book to get you through ALL the seasons? THIS is the book! Not only do you get an Amazing sugar cookie recipe, you get easy ways to alter and change it. Then you have the amazing decorating techniques that not only look doable, but are easy to follow along with, as you can see below! You just THOUGHT you knew how to make amazing sugar cookies, but with this book, you can prove to everybody that you learned from the best!  This is the one book you need to take your cookie making to the next level and be THE MOM with the BEST cookies! 

Recipe/Decorating Tips:

SOOOOOOO easy right? Why have we been outlining and filling? This technique is SOOOO much better- more realistic looking and fun for kids!

About the Author:

Emily Hutchinson started baking as a small child with her grandmother. As she grew into adulthood and became a mother, baking took a temporary back burner. Then in 2008, her daughter Jenny passed away from SIDS. She was beyond devastated. With no hope in sight, her friends invited her to church, and she started to bake again. Ten years later, her Instagram account has more than 100,000 followers, she has taught numerous classes and appears on national television to showcase her popular techniques, and she has found a beautiful way to honor her daughter Jenny and make her family proud. She resides in Seattle with her husband and three children.