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Royal Icing Recipe for Decorating Cookies

This royal icing recipe creates a smooth, glossy finish perfect for cookie decorating, outlining, and flooding. Learn the best icing consistency tips and how to use Americolor food coloring for vibrant, professional-looking designs.
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Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe for Cookie Decorating

This no-spread roll-out sugar cookie recipe holds its shape perfectly, making it ideal for decorated cookies. With a buttery flavor and soft texture, it’s the best dough for holiday cookies, custom orders, and royal icing designs.
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Chocolate Chip Cut-Out Cookie Recipe for Cookie Decorating

Enjoy the classic taste of chocolate chip cookies in a dough that holds its shape for cookie decorating. This cut-out recipe bakes soft, flavorful cookies with crisp edges—perfect for cut-out cookies and royal icing designs.
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How to Make a Reindeer Head Cookie SetDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesHow to Make a Reindeer Head Cookie Set

Stackable designs have always been pretty popular this time of year. Continuing with that trend, I've always wanted to create a design for Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Coming up with the concept, I debated whether it should a full-body design with legs and all, but eventually went with a simplified version of just his bust. I'm loving the final design. He's such a handsome reindeer that I'm sure everyone will love as a gift this holiday season!

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How to Make a Poinsettia Cookie PlatterDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesHow to Make a Poinsettia Cookie Platter

Christmas is a time of great cheer, goodwill, and happy gatherings with friends and family. For the winter holiday season, I'm always looking for quick cookie ideas that will feed large groups of people. This poinsettia cookie platter is a great option for just that!

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How to Make an Overlapping Football Cookie PlatterDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesHow to Make an Overlapping Football Cookie Platter

This overlapping football platter is a pretty straight-forward cookie platter design. However, to make this platter special, I applied an easy texture technique to elevate the overall presentation. Here's a quick demonstration on how you can easily recreate a football texture for this football cookie platter.

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Fall Farm Truck Cookies & Packaging RecommendationsDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesFall Farm Truck Cookies & Packaging Recommendations

Here are a few recommended packaging ideas for this type of 4-piece cookie set. Packaging options can be overwhelming to sort through, but I hope this quick post will help lay out which packaging will work for what size and where to find them.

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How to Make a Wheat Wreath Cookie PlatterDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesHow to Make a Wheat Wreath Cookie Platter

This new wheat wreath cookie platter gives the optical illusion that it's a lot of work and super detailed. But the truth of the matter is, it's surprisingly simple to decorate. Let me break down the easy steps for you in this tutorial.

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How to Make a Cat & Witch Hat Cookie PlatterDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesHow to Make a Cat & Witch Hat Cookie Platter

If you're looking for an adorable cookie platter for Halloween, I have just the platter design for you. This new cat & witch hat cookie platter pays homage to one of my favorite Halloween movies, Hocus Pocus. The design includes a cute black cat, a classic pointy witch hat, and utilizes the iconic song quote from the movie, "I put a spell on you".Here's how you can recreate this witch-themed platter design that will surely be perfect for your upcoming Halloween celebration.

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How to Make a Frankenstein Cookie SetDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesHow to Make a Frankenstein Cookie Set

Learn to make this cute Frankenstein cookie set! This new Halloween cookie set is a 2-for-1 deal. You have the option of making a sitting Frankenstein monster design or, with a switch of the head, create a sitting mummy design. Both options use the same cookie cutter body.

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How to Make Raven on Pumpkin CookiesDecorating TutorialsBeginner BasicsRecipesHow to Make Raven on Pumpkin Cookies

This raven on pumpkin design is the second feature from the witch kit cookie cutter set. If you missed the first tutorial from this set, you can click here (skull on books).To decorate this raven design, here's a breakdown of the steps below.

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Mike Tamplin

Hey, I’m Mike Tamplin! Co-founder and Cookie Designer of Semi Sweet Designs. My mission is to inspire bakers to create incredible cookies and even turn their passion into a business. At Semi Sweet Designs, we craft durable, fun tools for cookie decorators and bakers, along with merch that celebrates the baking community. Let’s make something sweet!

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