Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing or frosting with Wilton food coloring for your Christmas cakes, cookies, and cupcakes!!  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  When I make different colors with the same ratios (like the blues and reds above), I usually make the darkest color first. Then I add some of the darker colored icing into a bowl of fresh white icing to make a lighter version of the same icing.  I used  Wilton brand's primary color 4 pack food coloring  for all of these formulas.  See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

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 fancy Christmas coal decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  Has anyone truly ever been "ready for Christmas?"  I always have these well thought out strategies to purchase Christmas presents throughout the year...or at least start by Halloween...or to definitely get some things out of the way by Thanksgiving for sure... I have alllll the intentions of REALLY cleaning my house in November. I think it would be great to help my children sort through their own belongings so we can discover that the only snow boots in the house are somehow 7 sizes too small for even our youngest child BEFORE we get two feet of snow. 

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next Hanukkah cookie project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  See how I made the Hanukkah menorah cookies HERE!! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

Learn how to make some Hanukkah menorah decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  I have four children. I will tell you right now each one of them is a treasure. I mean, sometimes they are the kind of treasure that you need to clean up a bit before you can really appreciate it...but I do absolutely adore them. So don't take this the wrong way when I tell you that my youngest started full day school last fall and I could NOT have been happier.  I was going to have ALL THE TIME to do ALL THE THINGS!! I was going to be productive and exercise and make super healthy, interesting dinners every night. I would keep on top of my emails and read informative books that made me re-think my entire world view. I even considered catching up on laundry. 

Learn how to make some cute winter snowmen decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  Today one of my children informed me that there only 6 more days until Christmas. Another one of my children informed me that -- "I learned something new about my underwear today."

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next bright Christmas cookie project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas. If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos! When I make very light or pale icing colors, I mix the food coloring into a very small amount of icing (2 tablespoons) first and then use that saturated icing to color the rest of my icing. (Check out THIS POST for details.) See how I made the angel cookies HERE!! Learn my secret to perfect candy canes every time HERE! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next Christmas cookie project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas. If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos! When I make different colors with the same ratios (like the reds and greens above), I usually make the darkest color first. Then I add some of the darker colored icing into a bowl of fresh white icing to make a lighter version of the same icing. When I make very light or pale icing colors, I mix the food coloring into a very small amount of icing (2 tablespoons) first and then use that saturated icing to color the rest of my icing. (Check out THIS POST for details.) See how to make the candy cane cookies here! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE !

Learn how to make some sweet Christmas angel decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!! I've been on this "Make good use of my time and actually listen to learning type things while decorating cookies" kick. It's been fantastic. I've learned how to be mindful and let my money work for me. I've been taught the ways of having less and enjoying more. I've even learned the 27 surprising reasons why I'm sabotaging my own success.

Learn how to make some fun hat wearing reindeer decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!! I'm like a Super Sleeper. If sleeping was an Olympic sport... well... I'm not saying that I'd win the gold or anything, but I would DEFINITELY be watching it. Or, probably not watching it because I'd be sleeping through it. I can fall asleep in seconds. Anywhere. Anytime. Have you ever woken yourself up from sleeping because you were talking too loud? I woke myself up this morning with a single question -

Learn how to make some cute and simple elf shoe decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!   I went to Costco today. If you don't know what Costco is....it's a giant warehouse store. You pay money to have a card that lets you in the door so you can spend a ridiculous amount of money every time you go there because everything is sold in bulk and WEIRDLY...bulk items completely bypass my impulse control center.

Learn how to make some tropical Santa decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!   If blogs had Christmas specials...this would be it. It would start with a dark, snowy night that cuts inside to a warm kitchen where a smartly dressed female actor (who is clearly just pretending to be me...because let's be honest, I've never been smartly dressed in my life...) is patiently and sweetly decorating Christmas cookies with her adorably well-behaved children. (More creative license...you can be sure of that. 😂😂) One of those sweet little angel faces looks up and asks, "Mommy, was our coat closet always full of cookie cutters?" The clearly-has-it-all-together-mother-impersonators stares off into the middle distance and says, "Let me tell you a story..."

Learn how to make some adorable moose decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!! Things have slowed down a little bit for me after the Christmas rush. As it turns out, my kitchen counters still exist under all that royal icing. I've gone to bed before midnight... ON PURPOSE... multiple times! For better or worse, I finally discovered where that smell was coming from. I even managed to do enough laundry that I can now wear matching socks...and not just in public. Things are REALLY starting to look up for me.

Use this cookie decorating tutorial to learn how to make present or gift sugar cookies! Tell me if you've heard this story before. A cookie decorator eats Thanksgiving dinner with her family...falls asleep...dreams about making cookies nonstop and never sleeping for an entire month. Then wakes up and realizes it WASN'T a dream (except the part about riding the sparkly unicorn...that part was definitely a dream) and she has exactly 4 days left until Christmas.

Use this cookie decorating tutorial to learn how to make decorated sugar cookies that look like snowflakes!! You know how people are always saying "Never go grocery shopping when you're hungry?" Apparently , that also applies to going to the pharmacy when you are sick.

Use this cookie decorating tutorial to learn how to make sugar cookies that look like Christmas tree ornaments! I took my children to the store today to grab some gifts for birthday parties this weekend. I *think* I may have made a small miscalculation. My kids are older now, I told myself. They are responsible members of society, I distinctly remember thinking. Certainly we can get in and out of the TOY SECTION ON A FRIDAY NIGHT without a complete meltdown involving screaming, silly putty and an oddly shaped stuffed polka-dot prancing hyena from Milwaukee. I honestly did not see that happening.

Use this cookie decorating tutorial to learn how to make the easiest ever Christmas tree decorated sugar cookies! You know what I *DON'T* need right now? To over-complicate things. You know what I do EVERY. STINKING. DECEMBER? Yeah. You guessed it. I over-complicate my life like I'm getting paid for it. Actually...if we're being completely honest here...and we should be... I mean, we're friends, right? We go way back. We should be the kind of friends that tell each other when their mascara is running and not let them go the ENTIRE FREAKING NIGHT with mascara on their cheek because it was just a little bit awkward to mention it, right guys? Don't be that kind of friend.

The new year ALWAYS sneaks up on me. It's only a few days after the biggest cookie decorating holiday of the year. So I decided to put together a list of some of my favorite New Year's Eve cookie tutorials to save you some times this year!

Learn to make decorated gingerbread men in this cookie decorating tutorial! I'm hesitant to declare anything ironic ever since Alanis put one hand in her pocket...but there is a good chance that this one fits. I wanted to give you guys a suuuuuuper quick and easy design to ease your late-night stress and last minute orders. So I baked up these gingerbread guys late at night along with another order I was making. And in my late-night-early-morning-who-even-knows-at-that-point-of-the-day haze... I weirdly iced them all white.

I have spent absolutely MINUTES this holiday season observing the holiday gift opening behavior of those around me. And I've come to the conclusion that it can be narrowed down to two distinct styles. On one side of the dichotomy we have people who graciously accept gifts and then inexplicably take them home without even peeking and put them under their tree to open on Christmas!! No one is even watching them and they aren't peeking. It's like some kind of Survivor Challenge of discipline and self control.