Hooray! My NEW online Craftsy class, Smart Cookies, is now available! Smart Cookies is all about navigating the cookie process better, faster and more efficiently! It covers so many topics including: designing cookie sets, creating a cookie timeline, planning for icing, saving time with quick techniques, all while keeping the JOY in decorating! Plus, it is packed with lots of fun cookie demos!!! Read more below for a sneak peek into a few of my favorite class lessons!
Check out the video trailer to get a sneak peek at the class!
Here's a breakdown of the class by lesson:
Lessons 1 and 2
The first two lessons focus on designing and planning cookie sets that not only look great but take less time to complete! I'll walk you through my design process from brainstorming to sketching. Then in Lesson 2, I'll show you how I set up my cookie timeline, whether I'm making a few dozen cookies or 200 cookies!
Lessons 3 and 4
After I walk you through the planning process, lesson 3 will focus on some of my favorite time savers for decorating all while keeping designs consistent. Lesson 4 is all about the icing. I'll review icing consistencies, how to plan how much to make by color, and drying cookies!
Lessons 5 and 6
Lesson 5 is one of my favorite lessons of the class. I review airbrushing and royal icing stenciling and show how it can save you time and add beautiful, yet easy, projects to any cookie collection. Then, once the cookies are complete, lesson 6 focuses on packing and presenting your cookies, including my best tips on how to ship your cookies anywhere!
Lesson 7
Cookie demos are mixed in as I move through each lesson. But Lesson 7 is JAM PACKED with cookie tips as I finish showing how to create each cookie from my three class sets!
How Craftsy works!
If you haven't taken a Craftsy class yet, I think you're going to love it! Both of my classes are organized into 7 lessons, each broken down by topic. The Craftsy platform allows you to watch, stop, re-watch and make notes as much as you need! Plus, you can ask ME, the instructor, questions. I'll be checking in frequently to make sure all questions are answered.
The class also features my icing and cookie recipes, templates for several of the projects, icing practice sheets, and a materials list.
I left the "real world" in 2007 to be a stay–at–home mom. As a self–taught baker, I spent years decorating cookies and tweaking my recipes for loved ones' weddings, parties, baby showers and beyond. All that practice finally paid off when I opened the successful Flour Box Bakery in my home town of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Now, I'm happy to share my tried–and–true tips and cookie techniques with you, right here on Craftsy.
5 comments
Deepa
Sep 15, 2020
Hi ,
I am very much interested to learn the cookie making art and planning to start this as a small venture …however I am not familiar with suagr cookies and I want to learn things from scratch..I hope I ended in the correct place and you can help me to achieve my dreams. Pls.advice me how can I enroll into your classess and proceed further …
Thanks
Deepa
Sweetykakes
Dec 10, 2017
Good evening Mrs. Your
I pray all is well on your end. Can you point me in the right direction? I am having a problem locating lessons 1 & 2. The message page can’t be found pops up… Any assistance will be greatfully appreciated.
Thanks, Shoshana
Yera Kapur
Mar 01, 2017
Hi,
I love your website & tutorials & I was trying to register for your Craftsy class but it says the coupon code for 50% off is no longer valid. Do you have a new code? Thank you!
Regards,
Yera
Sweetykakes
Dec 10, 2017
Good evening Mrs. Your
I pray all is well on your end. Can you point me in the right direction? I am having a problem locating lessons 1 & 2. The message page can’t be found pops up… Any assistance will be greatfully appreciated.
Thanks, Shoshana
Yera Kapur
Mar 01, 2017
Hi,
I love your website & tutorials & I was trying to register for your Craftsy class but it says the coupon code for 50% off is no longer valid. Do you have a new code? Thank you!
Regards,
Yera
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Deepa
Sep 15, 2020Hi ,
I am very much interested to learn the cookie making art and planning to start this as a small venture …however I am not familiar with suagr cookies and I want to learn things from scratch..I hope I ended in the correct place and you can help me to achieve my dreams. Pls.advice me how can I enroll into your classess and proceed further …
Thanks
Deepa
Sweetykakes
Dec 10, 2017Good evening Mrs. Your
I pray all is well on your end. Can you point me in the right direction? I am having a problem locating lessons 1 & 2. The message page can’t be found pops up… Any assistance will be greatfully appreciated.
Thanks, Shoshana
Yera Kapur
Mar 01, 2017Hi,
I love your website & tutorials & I was trying to register for your Craftsy class but it says the coupon code for 50% off is no longer valid. Do you have a new code? Thank you!
Regards,
Yera
Sweetykakes
Dec 10, 2017Good evening Mrs. Your
I pray all is well on your end. Can you point me in the right direction? I am having a problem locating lessons 1 & 2. The message page can’t be found pops up… Any assistance will be greatfully appreciated.
Thanks, Shoshana
Yera Kapur
Mar 01, 2017Hi,
I love your website & tutorials & I was trying to register for your Craftsy class but it says the coupon code for 50% off is no longer valid. Do you have a new code? Thank you!
Regards,
Yera