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Nov192017

November 19, 2017, Sunday - Autumn Cookie Decorating Workshop at Pillsbury A-Mill

Time: 2 PM - 4:30 PM

Location: Pillsbury A-Mill, 315 Southeast Main Street

Autumn Cookie Decorating Workshop

Learn the art of royal icing with cookie and cake decorating expert, Cori Robinson, owner of The Cookie Creative. In our beginner to intermediate royal icing skills class, we'll share expert tips for creating beautiful custom cookies from baking to decorating. You'll leave the class with your autumn themed cookie set (think leaves, acorns, woodland creatures, and more!) and feeling confident in your royal icing skills.

In this 2.5 hour class, you'll learn to:

1. Bake the perfect sugar cookie
We'll share with you our own cookie recipes and teach you how to roll and bake the perfect blank canvases for your sugar art creations. Learn how to achieve uniformity in thickness and consistency and cookies that not only hold their shape through the baking process, but taste great too!

2. Work confidently with royal icing

Mixing the perfect royal icing can be easy if you know what to look for. We'll share our best recipes, tips, tricks, and show you how to achieve the perfect consistency icing for piping, flooding, brush work and creating beautiful mulitdimensional designs. 

3. Learn color-mixing techniques from true color-matching experts
If you've seen our cookies, you know we're sticklers for achieving beautiful design with the truest most brilliant colors. Whether you want to match a palette you found on Pinterest or the exact colors in a wedding invitiation, we'll show you how to expertly match any pantone color out there using just edible dyes. 

4. Create a custom holiday themed cookie set

We'll take you through our cookie design process step-by-step so you can leave with your own hand-decorated autumn themed cookie set. Learn to create our signature fall designs. All supplies included.