Hello from the other side of the country! It's been about a month since I moved from California to Florida, and I was eager to start baking again. After moving into the new house, one thought I was wary of was how the new oven would perform compared to my previous one. However, this oven tip shared by Sweet Sugarbelle was super helpful and eased my mind. Using an oven thermometer, I found out my new oven was running 25 degrees cooler! The oven is now calibrated and batches of underbaked cookies were prevented.

With summer just around the corner, I've got s'mores on the brain. I thought it would be fun to try a new s'more-flavored recipe for cut-out cookies. However, these cookies can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home, with no campfire needed or messy marshmallow fingers to deal with. These s'mores cut-out cookies are a variation of my chocolate-chip roll-out recipe. The base cookie has the flavor of honey graham crackers and speckled with mini chocolate chips. Rather than adding mini marshmallow bits to the dough, this time I decided to flavor the royal icing with marshmallow flavoring. This kind of mimics what a real s'more looks like.

For this Fourth of July season, I created this Patriotic Flag Spiral Cookie Platter. There's not much skill or time needed for this dessert design; just outline and flood each cookie. For the navy blue cookies, an easy star stencil gets the star detail job done for you. Super easy!

Continuing on with the tutorials for the latest back-to-school designs this year, these school bus cookies are probably my favorite out of the whole bunch. For inspiration, I modeled these school bus cookies after the characters in the Disney movie, Cars. With their windshield wiper eyebrows and their front grill smiles, my goal was to give these buses a ton of personality. This design does take a few more steps to complete, but I hope to lay out each step of the process in the tutorial below.