Perfect Royal Icing

This easy royal icing recipe is perfect for decorating your sugar cookies. It dries glossy and firm, protecting your designs, whether for Christmas and the holidays or any other occasion, from smushing and smudging.

Gingerbread House Icing

This thick and sturdy royal icing is perfect for building a gingerbread house, or giving it quick-dry embellishments.

Christmas Cookies! (Vanilla Biscuits/Sugar Cookies)

These Christmas Cookies are classic vanilla biscuits that are made for cutting out shapes because they hold their shape perfectly when baked!

My Secret, Less-Sweet Fluffy Vanilla Frosting

This is my secret Fluffy Vanilla Frosting recipe that is way better than buttercream. Less sweet, 100% smooth, pipes like a dream!

Flour Frosting (a.k.a. Ermine Frosting)

This beautiful vanilla frosting has a whipped cream–like flavor and texture that pairs just as well with devil's food as it does with strawberry cake.

Shortbread Cookies

I’m a firm believer that shortbread cookies should be sinfully buttery and delectably tender. Make these iconic biscuits with just flour, butter and sugar!

Black and White Cookies Recipe | Cook the Book

For me, black and white cookies are about two things—visual appeal and icing appreciation. I couldn't wait to replicate these deli favorites at home, to see just what goes into that lemon-scented cakey cookie and what kind of magic made that sweet, sweet icing.

Iced Lemon Cookies

These cookies are a hybrid of a classic Italian and a classic American treat. They're soft and chewy like a really good sugar cookie, but with more than a hint of pucker from lemon juice, zest, and extract.

Honey Biscuits

These biscuits aren't dessert-sweet but you can taste the richness of the honey. They're not so sweet that you couldn't eat them with dinner or breakfast, or slathered with peanut butter.

Melting Moments

Australia's favourite cafe cookie! Shortbread biscuits joined with lemon buttercream frosting, they literally melt in your mouth.