These highly concentrated food colorings are available in many colors and shades. Look for paste or gel food coloring at hobby stores and specialty cooking stores. They are also becoming more readily ...

Before beginning to decorate your sugar cookies this Christmas season, you'll want to learn how to properly ice them. Christmas Cookie Swap! has a reliable recipe for royal icing and a step-by-step ...

At the Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware, holiday cookie decorating starts with a walk to the greenhouse. Kids and their parents yanked carrots out of the ground, clipped stalks of kale and ...

Ditch the dyes! These substitutes for food coloring work to tint everything from royal icing to buttercream and are made with ingredients you can pronounce. It's true, store-bought food dyes are ...

Toasted milk powder adds a nutty, lightly caramelized flavor to frosting with less fuss than making a browned butter frosting ...

Inspired by a recent tweet by Alton Brown for his natural-colored frosting, his recipe for avocado frosting intrigued me. Alice Currah is the publisher of popular food blog, SavorySweetLife.com, and ...

I like baking sugar cookies. I like eating sugar cookies. But I don’t really like decorating them. It always starts out as a great adventure — buying enough butter to put every Wisconsin dairy cow ...