Back to School Ruler Cookies!

You will need:
- Rectangle Cookie Cutter, we used our 5″ x 3.25″
- No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe 
- Yellow Fondarific Fondant 
- Black Food Color
- Royal Icing Mix

Instructions:
1. Make our No Fail Sugar Cookie Dough. Cut out as many rectangle shapes as you can and cut them into thirds.

2. Bake cookies on parchment paper and let cool on wire rack.

3. While cookies are cooling, prepare the yellow fondant and cut out the shapes the same way you cut out your cookies (cut into thirds).

4. Prepare your black royal icing (following the directions on the mix bag).

5. Cover the cookie shapes with the yellow fondant first, then pipe ruler markings with your black royal icing.

Ultimate Rocky Mountain Avalanche Bars

Ingredients:
- 12 oz chopped white chocolate (use Lindt bars)
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter (use Squirrel Brand)
- 3 cups crisp rice cereal
- 1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
- 1/3 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions:
1. Lightly grease an 8-by-8-inch square baking pan. Alternatively, line with lightly greased parchment paper. This recipe can easily be doubled to fit a 13-by-9-inch baking pan.

2. In microwave-safe bowl, melt the white chocolate bars (broken up) in the microwave on medium powder for 30 seconds. Stir and heat for an additional 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, until the chocolate is melted.

3. Add the peanut butter to the melted chocolate and stir until smooth.

4. Place the rice cereal in a large bowl. Pour over melted chocolate mixture and gently toss until completely coated. Continue to stir until the mixture is no longer warm to the touch, about 10 minutes.

5. When the cereal mixture has cooled, fold in the marshmallows and 1/3 cup of the mini chips.

6. Spread into prepared pan, compressing lightly with the back of your spoon. Don’t press too hard or you’ll crush the cereal. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips and a handful of marshmallows and press lightly to adhere.

7. Refrigerate until set, at least 30 minutes, then cut into 2-inch squares and serve. Bars will keep, covered in the refrigerator, for up to 5 days.

Monkey & Banana Cookies

Photo & recipe thanks to Lucks.com!

You will need:
- Royal Icing Monkey Decorations
- Round Cookie Cutter or Banana Cutter
- No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe
- Royal Icing Mix
- Squeeze Bottles or pastry bags w/tips
- Black Food Coloring
- Brown Food Coloring
- Yellow Food Coloring

Instructions:
1. Make your favorite cut-out cookie recipe and cut banana shapes using a set of round cutters: cut a 3″ circle, then cut away a portion of the cookie using a slightly smaller round cutter. Alternately, you may use a banana or moon cookie cutter.

2. These cookies are iced using the flow icing method; to make icing for this method, make a batch of royal icing and set aside 1/3 of the regular recipe. Take the remaining 2/3 and thin it down with warm water. To test for correct consistency, drop thinned royal icing from your spatula into the royal icing in the bowl. If the drop disappears by the count of 10, the royal icing has reached correct consistency.

3. Use Black Food Color to color half of the regular icing and Brown Food Color to color the other half; and use Yellow Food Color to color the thinned icing.

4. Use a squeeze bottle or tipped pastry bag to pipe outlines using the black royal icing, then fill in with the yellow icing. Let dry.

5. After your icing has hardened, use the brown icing to pipe tails and arms as shown.

6. Finish with Monkey Royal Icing Decorations for an entertaining party complement!

Decorating idea by Charra Jarosz

Vintage Independence Day Cookies

Independence Day is coming right up! Here is a how-to for making Vintage Independence Day Cookies with edible wafer paper images!

You Will Need:
- Patriotic Tiny Postcards Wafer Paper Set
- No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe
- 1 bag royal icing
- 3″ x 2″Rectangle Cookie Cutter
- Edible Clear Writing Gel
- Wax or parchment paper
- White Edible Glitter
- Small craft scissors
- Squeeze Bottles

Instructions:
1. Use No Fail Sugar Cookie recipe and cut out several rectangle cookie shapes. Bake and cool as directed.

2. Ice each cookie with 1 layer of royal icing. Let completely dry.

3. Carefully cut out wafer paper shapes using craft scissors, making sure each one will fit on the cookie. Be careful, wafer paper is fragile!

4. Adhere each wafer paper cut out to a cookie shape by adhering a thin layer of edible clear writing gel (or light corn syrup) to the top of the iced cookies.

5. Flip each cookie face down on a piece of wax paper to dry for about 30 minutes (this will keep the wafer paper shape flat).

6. Flip cookies over and add additional decoration, such as edible glitter or dragees with the edible clear writing gel.

7. Let completely dry and store in an airtight container.

New! Flavored Fondant in 12 flavors!

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