Drop In & Decorate

Decorating Cookies: a book of inspiring ideas

Cookie decorators everywhere have discovered Bake at 350, a wonderful blog by Bridget Edwards.

Now, just in time for holiday Drop In & Decorate® events, Bridget has collected some of her best-loved cookie designs into a book, with step-by-step instructions.

Decorating Cookies is sure to become a must-have for all who love to host cookies-for-donation events. Find it at bookstores, or online through this link.

Drop In & Decorate does not earn any commission on sales of the book through this post. We just love Bridget! You will love this book, too.

Can you freeze decorated cookies?

Bridget of Bake at 350, one of our favorite cookie bloggers, answers the question so many people ask us:

Yes, you can freeze cookies decorated with royal icing!

You can freeze cookies before baking, or after they're baked but before they're decorated, too.

She explains it all for us in this post.

Design inspiration for basic round cookies

Everyone who has a cookie cutter has a round one. Our favorite round is a Wilton Comfort Grip 4-inch cookie cutter. If you don't have a round cookie cutter, you have something on hand that can make round cookies: you can cut out dough with the rim of a drinking glass, or trace around a small bowl or plate.

Round cookies are incredibly versatile, and if you only can buy one cookie cutter, consider the round. Monsters, flowers, rainbows, even Harry Potter -- anything can be round!

Click on any of these photos to find more information (and, in some cases, a tutorial that shows you how to recreate the design) and links to the sources.