This was my first time baking and making Sugar Cookies! Loved the detailed book with supply suggestions/links and videos made this class GREAT! I took an in person class in San Antonio for 2x the cost and there was no comparison. The graceful baker knows how to teach.
This was a great class! I love the easy she explained everything I felt extremely prepared to decorate the cookies and I felt they turned out pretty darn good. I also bought the pumpkins class and look forward to taking more with the graceful baker and going up in skill level.
Hi Grace, I know you don’t have a space set, however a friend of mine asked me to make cookies for her 3 year old’s birthday. I have purchased several of your classes with the goal of learning new techniques. So… the lettering on the space shuttle cookies are from your Birthday set. The letters and numbers were so easy and forgiving! Don’t they look great!
The swirl in the rocket fire exhaust and sugar sprinkles are from your beginner Hearts set. The “clean up” of my edges on my astronaut and rockets are a skill I learned from your advanced Rainbow set. I do still need to work on my craters - I often forget to put in a little extra icing down before flooding. A little more practice should solve that glitch.
I appreciate your video on icing consistencies. I review it periodically because I still find that the trickiest part. I applied a lot of what I learned about consistencies from your Under the Sea set to the different space cookies I made for my friend.
And finally, I have tried a few different cookie recipes I find on the internet, however, I always come back to your vanilla cookie recipe with the brown sugar variation. I do think it’s the best recipe out there.
I appreciate all the work you put into your videos and workbooks. I enjoy my new hobby and a lot of that is because you’ve made learning a new skill possible. Thank you!
Once again, always a great learning experience decorating a variety of cookies. With such a thorough workbook and live instructions, makes it seem almost possible to decorate a tiny bit as good as Grace.
This is the 3rd class I have taken. I baked the cookies on Thursday, using my new Bosch Universal Plus mixer to make the dough. I used my 7 qt mixer to make the icing on Friday night then colored the red, white & blue icing. Saturday morning, I checked the colors and added a little bit more to each. I use the Chefmaster gels, and they are so easy. I also pulled the frozen leftover white icing and extra icing from my Easter cookies to thaw out.
Following Grace's directions, I thinned the icing to thick flood. I made a large and small bag of each color: red, white & blue. A major mistake I made was cutting the large white bag too large, and I wasted a lot of the white icing. Thankfully, I have a lot of extra because I pulled my previous batch out of the freezer. I followed Grace's video to do the first batch, but I more or less did the second with only minor use of the video. The first batch was rough with lots of over-flooding, but the end batch was a lot nicer looking. I still have a ways to go to become a better cookier!
My recommendation is watch Grace decorate the cookies before you try to do it with her.
I have so much icing left, I am probably going to bake off a recipe of the beginner hearts and use the red, white & blue icing to decorate them instead of pink, purple & white.
[Note: I also make sourdough, which is why I bought the Bosch. I have my late mother's 30+ year old 7-qt lift KitchenAid, but sourdough is really hard on the motor.]
