Once you get hooked on making these delicious decorated cookies, you'll create occasions to bake more! The recipes are easy, from gingerbread to shortbread, sugar cookies to chocolate. What makes these extra special are the techniques and tools to make them look stupendous: ruffled bibs in soft pastel hues for a baby shower, a white chocolate rose with eight petals, or a 3D bride and groom for wedding and anniversary celebrations. If you want to be a little less elaborate, you can also decorate them with curled chocolate shavings; glazes of sieved apricot jam; shredded coconut; or candy. Even a basic icing can make a cookie appear as well-dressed and formal as cake! You'll make these effects with confidence thanks to the author's clarity and creativity, especially when it comes to incorporating tools such as paintbrushes, a quilter's wheel, an X-acto knife, embroidery scissors, and the simplest instructions we've seen yet on piping.