The Cookie Companion: A Decorator's Guide

Georganne Is Easy to follow, Light-hearted, and entertaining Terrific information! I Love the Photographs. I read this book over and over. It's a great reference guide.

I met the author briefly when I ran past her at a book signing at Barnes and noble. I grabbed a couple of her cookies for my kids in the car and kept a mental note to check out her book. Fast forward 8 months- I saw the book at gygi and thumbed through it, bought it then and tried her recipes that night. I WISH I HAD STOPPED AT BARNES AND NOBLE TO GET THE BOOK SIGNED AT THAT FIRST ENCOUNTER. She is an artist. This book is truly awesome!!! I am a serious cookie baker. I consider cookies a food group. I host a crazy huge cookie exchange every few years where I make 60 dozen elaborately decorated cookies (10 different types of cookies; 6 dozen of ea type). I’m really into cookies 🍪. This book is an incredible resource for color matching, getting color combo ideas and for a few solid cookie recipes that I will use again and again. I don’t keep a lot of cookie cookbooks because usually I only LOVE one or two in each book and I clip the recipe and put it in my binder. I will keep this book on hand for the chocolate recipe and the color matching- which was a game changer for me. I threw away all of my old food coloring and went with the brand they mentioned in the book so I could used the color recipes. Also, have you ever had a cookie with royal icing and it tasted good? Me neither until this book. I mean-aren’t they usually beautiful yet nasty- not anymore, you can have it all. Yummy cookie recipes and gorgeous decorating ideas.

This book includes detailed directions for coloring and decorating cookies. The recipes and tips were very helpful. I particularly enjoyed the organization of the book and the writing style. It was fun to read which I can’t say about too many cookbooks! I’m on my way to mastering this craft.

I purchased this in the hopes that it would have a bit more information for people who have not done cookie decorating for a while. I was hoping for a resource list but I found nothing like that. I appreciated having the color charts that help one to find the right color of icing/frosting. I also liked having some pictures/tutorials of how to decorate the cookie examples in the book. Perhaps my lack of exuberance in this is what I should have realized by the title - this a cookie companion, not a book that covers more detail that I would have liked to have seen. The Chapters: 1 - Let's Get Started 2 - Colors 3 - Color Charts 4 - Color Palettes 5 - Compendium 6 - Index 7-About the author There are some simple recipes for cookie dough as well as icing. I believe I will use this book most for the color charts, as those can be very valuable.

Nice recipes

I absolutely love this book it has all the basics for learning how to frost cookies it has a good really good recipes in here that I fell in love with and still use I refer back to this book so much because it’s awesome for baking beginners

This book is worth the price alone just for the color formulas. If you are making cookies that need to match something like wedding colors, this book is your salvation. I've been making decorated sugar cookies for eight years, and matching colors is always a trial and error exercise in wasted royal frosting. Lots of tips. Very helpful. Most cookie decorating books are good for one read and then you don't need to reference them again. This book will be a constant reference.

I’m new to cookie decorating and this book is a must have. It helps with colors and royal icing techniques.