Religious Cookies

by Sharon Evans
Sharon Evans
I'm a self-taught baker and have done designer cookies for several years.  I started out baking cookies to treat the gang at work on holidays.  I got better and better at it and people were telling me, "These are wonderful, you need to go into business."  So, I took them up on it and started Sharon's Edible Art.  Now it's a paying hobby.  I try to design "outside the box" by trying different ideas to bring more 3-D images into the cookies.  I live in Carlsbad, NM.

Religious Cookies

Religious Easter Cookies
The white on white cross on the left is made by piping white icing details after the bottom white layer has dried, then immediately sprinkling it with white sugar, a technique called "flocking".  The dove in the middle is baked separate and decorated with cake sparkles.  The cross on the right has been scored to look like wood and then painted with thinned brown icing, although a cinnamon and sugar coating would work as well.