Blog by Emily Hutchinson, Baking Memories
American crusting buttercream works beautifully to decorate on my sugar cookie recipes. I have been using this recipe for years, it was adapted from a crusting buttercream recipe of Wiltons. If you hate the idea of the vegetable shortening you can use all butter. I think it gives the buttercream extra smoothness when piping. We […]
Christmas cookies aren’t complete with out Rudolph. They will make the perfect addition to your cookie plates for Santa, the neighbor, teachers or family and friends. I share all of my recipes in my two books, creative cookie decorating and creative cookie decorating for everyone, both available online anywhere books are sold. Grab my vanilla […]
The tiny flecks of vanilla bean make a bare cookie so beautiful to look at. This recipe is straight to my heart, double vanilla with a whole vanilla bean and vanilla extract. These are soft, delicious and full of flavor. I highly recommend using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment when making my cut-out […]
In Creative Cookie Decorating for Everyone, the follow-up to the beloved Creative Cookie Decorating, Emily Hutchinson takes you through decorating with buttercream, with hundreds of step-by-step photos. She covers each season and holiday with new ideas and designs for your cookies. Unique to this book are instructions for how to flood with buttercream. (Yes, you read that […]
Nothings says Summer quite like fresh berries so I really wanted to bring a cookie that tastes like fresh sweet berries even though we are using freeze dried blueberries. These blueberry cookies are soft and keep their shape wonderfully. The freeze dried blueberries are the perfect addition to this creamy sugar cookie that is so […]
January 15th 2008, the worst day of my life…the trauma leading up to the 15th is very hard for me. If you know my story, you know the pain I’ve lived through, the triumph in my kitchen and why the smile on my face is so big. You might not know what someone is going […]
