Julia usher cookies

A Video by Julia M Usher

What the heck is dual-mode stenciling, you ask?! (So sorry – it’s the former engineer in me who loves to make up pseudo-scientific names to explain cookie decorating techniques!) Anywho . . . it’s a term I coined (I think) to indicate multiple, layered stenciled patterns made with two different stenciling media, such as airbrush […]

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While Julia M. Usher adores 3-D cookies, she loves a good decorated 2-D cookie too - especially when it's got added dimensional interest like many of the cookies you'll see here! FYI - This category includes decorated rolled cookies that sit flat on a plate and those that are stacked or suspended. More involved multi-cookie standing constructions can be found in "3-D COOKIES", and simpler forms of cookies - such as drops and bars - are located in "OTHER SWEETS".

Cookie stencil designs created along with sugar artist Julia Usher! Create layered, 3D cookies with ease! Cookie decorating tutorials and videos are available.

If you’ve ever worked in the wedding cake business, you’ll appreciate why I always approached delivery day with an impending sense of doom. After putting hundreds of hours into each wedding cake, I shuddered at the thought of any misstep that might put my “babies” at risk. Bridezilla or not, few brides have tolerance for […]

A Video by Julia M Usher

In January, we're kicking off the CookieCon 2019 Speakers Series with the very talented Cynthia Raven, owner of SugarChat Cookie Studio in Lee's Summit, Missouri. In addition to winning at the CookieCon Sugar Show in 2017, Cynthia was one of the cookiers selected to create the special CookieCon calendar last year. She is also frequently my right-hand woman at cookie events (so frequently, in fact, that she's often mistaken for me!), and my very dear friend. In her chat on January 12 (10…