A Cookie to Celebrate: Recipes and Decorating Tips for Everyday Baking and Holidays

Easily create beautiful and delicious cookies for any and every occasion with these easy-to-follow recipes with photograph-filled instructions.

A Cookie to Celebrate is an instant cookie-baking classic, with recipes that are gorgeously photographed and meticulously tested along with tons of decorating and packaging ideas. These inventive and inspired cookies will be perfect for sharing with your friends on Instagram?or in person!

What sets A Cookie to Celebrate apart is its step-by-step, photograph-filled instructions for gorgeously personalized cookies for all kinds of occasions, from birthdays to anniversaries to the changing of the seasons. These ornamental edibles are perfect for the holidays, and because the recipes are easy to scale up or down, they're great for cookie exchanges, gift-giving, kids' parties, and potlucks.

Jana Douglass is the founder of Jana Lee's Bake Shop, an artisan bake shop that specialized in custom decorated cut-out cookies for special events and celebrations. In A Cookie to Celebrate, she shares her baking expertise and recipes as a veteran baker, inspiring you to create your own new classics. Each cookie in this collection is guaranteed to be a stand-out.

Inside you'll find new twists on cookie concepts, like Engagement Ring Cookies and Baby Onesie Cookies?confections decorated for every season and reason. Try something new with ice cream cone cookies with sprinkles in summer, conversation heart cookies for Valentine's Day, or even decorating a birthday cake with cookies!

Full of cookie baking tips, recipes, and presentation ideas, A Cookie to Celebrate will show you:
• How to expertly roll, cut, and bake your cookie dough
• Helpful tools and techniques for coloring and piping icing
• Creative ways to spice up classics?or try something new