Okay, so I'm excited about a book! Does anyone else have this book? Okay, so what' the title?
It's Creative Cookies by Toba Garrett
I just finished reading the whole thing and I already use some of the techniques she describes. In fact, I used the brush embroidery technique and similiar design on my cookies for the cake show earlier this year.
I highly recommend this book. She makes things seem so simple and there are a lot of "duh, why didn't I think of that" techniques in it as well.
I'm just so excited about this book I thought I'd share it. It's under $13.00 btw!!! I found it at B&N.
Now the cookie experts on here like Antonia74 and others needn't bother with it because you can't perfect on what they already do! This is for those of us who aspire to be that good!
Amy
Thanks for the info Amy. I'll write that name down and keep it in mind when I'm on ebay!!
I just finished cookies using Toba Garrett's glace' icing. I love that stuff. I'm getting ready to post the pictures of yet more pumpkin cookies. I wasn't going since there are so many halloween cookies but when you're new at this stuff, it's exciting.
I got the Creative Cookies by Toba Garrett book from the library and I think I'm going to buy it just for reference. You can purchase the book from www.overstock.com for $8.87 + $1.40 for shipping. (great deal )
kos
Thanks for the tip about the book and the great price from Overstock! I just ordered the book
I bought the book too and think it's great. The way things are described makes it easy to follow. I looked at several different and choose this one and was not disappointed. Wow, I never thought to look at overstock for books. I had a cert. for amazon so I just used it there. I HATE that the book stores near me, and libraries, don't have ANYTHING in cake decorating. I have to soley depend on internet and hate not being able to "look" before I buy.
It's $10.36 at Amazon, but qualifies for free shipping with a $25 order, so if you need anything else from Amazon, that might be the better deal (if you will get the free shipping!)
Thanks Kos..that is a great price! I have Toba's Well Decorated Cake book, but not the cookie one! Looks like I need to add to my book collection!
I just put mine up for auction on Ebay if anyone is interested! I got a second one by accident. I love mine!
You all just talked me into ordering it from amazon. I had a couple other things on my list so I got free shipping. Did everyone know that if you use Amazon's search engine... www.a9.com, that you get another very small percentage (1.57%) off of every order? An occasional search will keep the discount active.
I have it to. I agree, things are EXPLAINED. You really don't have to guess much like you sometimes find in others books. The recipes are pretty good too.
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