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How To Make Decorated Love Monster Sugar Cookies

Learn how to make some ADORABLE Love Monster decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!   My birthday is next week. I'm not normally a big birthday-celebrater kind of person, but I just realized that I spent the entire year telling people that I was 38 years old. And... after a little wrestling match with some math...it turns out that I am in fact, actually only THIRTY SEVEN YEARS OLD. You guys! I cheated myself for an entire year! Now I feel like I have to make up for it by shouting to anyone that will listen that I am exactly 37 years old...for a few more days at least.

How To Make Decorated Popcorn Bowl Sugar Cookies

Learn how to make fun popcorn bowl decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!   There's not a lot of things I take too seriously, but bedtime and popcorn definitely make the list. My husband used to be gone A LOT with the military. And with four kids ... (that I love with my WHOLE HEART!!) ... some days bedtime was the only reason I made it through the day. Have you ever seen the movie Gremlins? Basically there are these CRAZY ADORABLE creatures that everyone in the entire world with an actual heart, just wants to take home and squish and hold for the rest of their lives. But details...details...details...I honestly can't remember how...but somehow they turn into these CRAZY MONSTERS with nightmarish faces and they basically can't be stopped on their rampage of destruction. I'm like that exactly 7 seconds past bedtime. Including the face. It's terrifying really.

How To Make Decorated Unicorn Cookies with Rainbow Hair

Learn how to make some cute and fun rainbow haired unicorn decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!   I have a confession. I kind of LOVE airports. If I have an afternoon flight, I'll legitimately get a ride to the airport at 6 am just so I can hang out. I'm not even kidding. There is always so much going on...and none of it involves me. None of it requires my attention or intervention. I can watch children go through complete and utter melt downs in the middle of a public walk way, screaming and begging their parents to somehow change the laws of the universe because "HE TOOK MY CAR AND ALSO I AM NOT EATING CANDY AND MY LEGS STOPPED WORKING!!" and I can think to myself, "Oh...kids are so adorable."

How to Make Decorated Football Player Sugar Cookies

Learn how to make some football player decorated sugar cookies for the Big Game with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  If you only know me from the internet, and have never met me in person... I'm 37% certain  that I come across as stable and calm, incredibly refined and very very much not the kind of person that would ever dance around a room full of cookie decorators to absolutely no music at all....while also singing the theme song to a very popular Disney snow princess movie off key and at the top of my lungs.

How To Make Conversation Heart Colored Icing -- Color Palette with Formulas

Use these royal icing color formulas to learn how to make some royal icing colors that perfectly match Valentine's Day conversation heart candies!!   Do you know what I love most about this whole cookie WORLD we've built? I mean...besides EVERYTHING?! Actually... everything kind of sums it up. But if I HAD to say something besides everything , like if for some inexplicable reason, the future of our world as we know it depended upon me picking something else besides everything ... I could do that for you. I would sacrifice like that because the future of our world is something that I'm actually quite fond of and would really love to see it stick around.

How to Make Decorated Egg, Toast, and Bacon Sugar Cookies

Learn how to make cute and adorable egg, toast, and bacon decorated sugar cookies for Valentine's Day with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!   Did you know that I used to live in Georgia? It's true. My husband and I moved there for a few months right after we got married. I could really go for some of that whole "still warm in the winter" thing that they've got going on over there right now. And of all the crazy memories I have of that state, there are three that are permanently etched into my brain whenever I think about Georgia.

How To Make Decorated Valentine Unicorn Sugar Cookies

Use this cookie decorating tutorial to learn how to make decorated sugar cookies that look like cute and adorable unicorns for Valentine's Day! Like most parents, I am absolutely certain that my children are the most beautiful, smart, and insanely talented little creatures on the planet. And like most parents... I am also quite aware that at least half my claims are *slightly* exaggerated. With one exception.