Decorating Cookies

Sometimes, how things look outweighs the food itself. For the baker, this is particularly important. Dozens of books on cake decorating crowd the shelves, but Farrow has made a singular contribution with Decorating Cookies. In some cases, Farrow replicates complicated cake decorating ideas with rolled fondants. In other instances she uses simple icings and commercially available edible sugar decorations to turn ordinary flat cookies into sumptuous works of art with decidedly modern color palettes. Home cooks will be inspired by the book's color photographs to try their hands at Farrow's techniques. Mark KnoblauchCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved