Learn how to make a festive Sweet Shop decorated gingerbread house with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  You may have seen this design before. Because... well...I made it a whole pandemic ago. But then... things  happened. Or nothing happened. I can't really be sure at this point. All I know is that I have been losing Decembers for more years than I can count. One day it will be happy-land-holiday-season on December 3 and then I wake up and it's the middle of January and the sky is dark and everyone is crying.

Learn how to make some easy moon and star decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  When I was in college, I was a whitewater rafting guide in a fairly remote part of Wyoming. The nights were warm with just a little edge of cool wind coming through. And it was dark. So so dark without a moon. You could actually see the Milky Way.  And it seemed like I would always be 23 years old.