Ready to express your inner cookie artist? Well then, you're in the right place! Award-winning cookbook author and pastry chef, Julia M. Usher has translated her latest book Ultimate Cookies into a cookie decorating course. In over four hours of footage, broken into 16 delicious lessons, she guides you step by step through the basics of outlining and flooding and onto more advanced techniques such as stenciling, marbling, rubber-stamping, dusting, and wafer-papering. Whether you're just starting to dabble in royal icing or hoping to take your skills to the next level, you'll be better able to express your creativity once you master the fundamentals. Julia's motto: Understanding techniques unleashes full potential! Lessons include: 1. Intro and Tools I Can't Live Without 2. 7 Steps to Flawless Rolled Cookies 3. Making and Cutting with Custom Templates 4. How to Make and Handle Parchment Cones 5. Royal Icing and Consistency Adjustments 6. Top-Coating and Outlining and Flooding 7. Nose-Dive and Roundabout Dipping 8. Wet-on-Wet Layering 9. Marbling 10. Stenciling 11. Rubber-Stamping 12. Wafer-Papering 13. Dusting and Painting 14. Flocking (aka Sanding) 15. Applique Work 16. Simple Outlines, Beadwork, and Textured Borders Thanks to Julia's sponsors, CopperGifts.com and DesignerStencils.com, whose generous support made this video series possible. Also to video producer Joe Baran of Workingman's Film.