Christmas cookie season is coming.
Learn it now, impress everyone in December.
You want the cookie platter everyone photographs. Your piping hand has other plans.
Shaky lines. Wobbly lettering. Detail work that eats your whole night. Piping takes years of practice, and your next party won't wait.
Wet on wet skips the hard part. The scribe does the design work, and the little imperfections read as style. I've decorated more than 200,000 cookies, and I still think imperfection is what makes art art.
Find the right consistency. Then go play with it.
You flood a cookie, drop wet colors into the wet base, and drag a scribe through them before anything sets. The secret is the consistency, and that's what this class teaches you. Get your flood right and the colors melt into each other every time.
What you'll learn
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My royal icing recipe, start to finish (included free)
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How to make an outline consistency and a wet-on-wet flood, and how to count them
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How to mix a five-color palette in one bowl
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How to fill and hold piping bags so your hands don't hurt
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How to outline and flood smoothly, and fast
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Six wet-on-wet designs, then how to make up your own
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How to dry your cookies and fix the most common problems
Six cookies. One palette. Endless ideas.
Flower Burst: Placing dots and pulling them into petals
Wreath Swirl: One continuous drag that turns lines into a wreath (my go-to Christmas cookie)
Cobweb: Rings dragged from the outside in
Chevron: Bands of color pulled into a pattern
Floral Garden: Tiny flowers and dot clusters, worked fast
Marble Swirl: Knowing when to stop touching the cookie
These are your cookies. I'll show you six designs, but be as creative as you want.
What you get
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A 15 minute video where I mix the colors and decorate all six designs. Decorate right alongside me and pause whenever you need.
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A printable workbook with the consistency guide, palette, step-by-step designs, troubleshooting and pages for your notes
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My royal icing recipe PDF, free
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A cheat sheet for every design, with a photo of the finished cookie
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Lifetime access, so you can come back to it every holiday
Hi, I'm Dani.
I own Dani's Kitchen Shop in Hood River, Oregon. We decorate 30,000 to 40,000 cookies a year, and I've decorated more than 200,000 royal icing cookies myself. I'm a production baker, not a perfectionist, and that's exactly why I teach consistency first: it's what makes every cookie easier.
I can tell you everything I know, but until you do it, you won't figure it out. So let's go do it.
ONE CLASS MAKES YOUR ICING BEHAVE
This one turns it into cookies people photograph.
Wet-on-Wet Cookie Decorating, $27
Focus: Finding the right consistency and working with it on the cookie
You learn: Outline and wet-on-wet flood, a 5-color palette, six designs
Icing Confidence Mini Class, $9.99
Focus: The icing itself: making it behave every time
You learn: Why icing runs, craters or won't dry, plus my humidity guide
If your icing runs, craters or won't dry, start with the Mini Class. If your icing behaves and you want designs, start here. Or take both for the whole cookie.
