"Hair frosting" is a color technique that creates dimension by adding highlights and lowlights. "The lightened hair falls precisely among the darker hair, which resembles how frost settles atop trees, ...

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 ...

When it comes to an afternoon of bonding with the kids, there's something to be said for living in the moment and letting the frostings fall where they may. At other times, it can be super satisfying ...

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 ...

Need a quick icing that sets glossy and smooth in minutes? This powdered sugar icing is smooth, glossy, and perfect for my no ...

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 ...