Tutorial On Making Fondant Cameos

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Royal Icing Gold Rope Border Tutorial (video)

A tutorial on how I pipe and paint my gold rope border using royal icing. The cookie shown here is a square measuring about 3x3".

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Ombre (A Brief Tutorial)

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NYC Cookies

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I made these NYC designs by first flooding the cookies in white royal icing and letting them dry completely. Then, I traced the designs onto the cookies using an edible ink marker and piped over the lines with a tip 1 and thinned royal icing in black, white and gray. The black outline was added at the end.

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5,000 Facebook Fan Giveaway

I'm having a giveaway on my facebook page! Visit www.facebook.com/sweetambscookies to enter for a chance to win:
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-A 21 month (June 2012-Feb 2014) 11x17" calendar featuring photos of some of ...my favorite SweetAmbs cookie designs
-10 notecards with envelopes (2 each of 5 different SweetAmbs cookie designs - each measuring about 4x5-1/2")
-One dozen Brush Embroidered cookies!
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Good luck!

Guest Post and Cookie Giveaway on Celebrations.com

Check out my guest post on the celebrations.com blog, Life of the Party! Here you'll find step by step instructions on how to do my favorite decorating technique, brush embroidery.

Also, leave your comment on the blog post telling celebrations.com what your favorite cookie is and you'll be entered to win a set of 6 brush embroidered cookies from my cookie shop, SweetAmbs.

Bonus entries can be made by "liking" SweetAmbs on facebook or by signing up for the celebrations.com newsletter.

The winner will be chosen on Friday, December 9th at 5pm EST. Good luck!!

Holiday Cookies

Just listed in my Etsy shop: Frosty Cookies for the Holidays.

Synergistic Cookies

I love the way these Brush Embroidery Cookies look together in a group, as if they were all pieces cut from the same bolt of fabric. This lavender bunch was a custom order for a wedding.

Royal Crown Cookies

These are just some new photos of my Royal Crown Cookies.

Cookie Blues

This particular shade has become my new favorite color. Although it looks more like cornflower blue, Wilton's gel paste food coloring in delphinium blue works perfectly for these Cookies Inspired by Wedgwood.

Cameo Cookie

These are just some new photos of an old favorite: the Cameo Cookie.

Custom Cookies

I made these custom cookies for an artist in California. They were a lot of fun to decorate because of the simple lines and bright colors. You can see her art on her Website, http://www.axelhoney.com/ .

A gift basket filled with cookies

A fleur de lis Easter cookie

Coming Soon

Look for my cookies in Taste Budd's Cafe in Red Hook, NY this spring!

A Christmas Cookie.

I made these cookies as a gift for the people at Mohonk, a resort and nature preserve in New Paltz, New York.

To make the logo, I first drew it on AutoCad, which is an architectural design program that I use at work. I then printed a bunch on one piece of paper and placed it underneath a sheet of acetate paper, which was taped onto a cookie sheet. From there I piped over the template with royal icing, painted the designs with luster dust, waited for them to dry, and carefully lifted them off the acetate using a small offset spatula.

I applied the logos to the cookies when the green icing was still wet.

Wedgwood Cookies

I received a great gift yesterday from my Grandmother, Jewel. She gave me an Olympus E-520 camera and, as you can see from these pictures, the camera makes all the difference. I spent most of this morning taking pictures of cookies that I'd saved in hopes that I would someday get a hold of a camera that would do them justice.

This is my favorite picture.

These cookies were inspired by Wedgwood pottery, which I recently started collecting. It took some time to get the color just right.

I made some letters by hand (above) and also experimented with stencils (below).

You can see some other pictures that I took on my mom's blog, Spiegel House.