Sugarlicious Cookbook
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You all know how much I love to share things that excite me right? Well, there’s no holding back the excitement today!! Meghan Mountford, author of one of my favorite cookie decorating books and the creative brain behind The Decorated Cookie and editor of Edible Crafts at Craft Gossip, has just released her second book, Sugarlicious, expanding her cookie craft to cupcakes, cakes and other sweet treats.
Meaghan is one of those bakers who takes cute treats to a whole new level. Sugarlicous is packed with 200 pages of adorable edible art, beautiful color photos and illustrated step-by-step directions for both the novice and seasoned bakers. The book includes cookies, marshmallows, cupcakes, cakes, cake pops, petits fours and candy clay.
You’ll learn to put sweets on sticks, color icing and frosting, pipe with a decorating bag, make fondant decorations, use edible writers and icing sheets, paint and stamp with food coloring, decorate with candies and sprinkles, and so much more. Froggy cupcakes, milkshake cake pops, mustache and bow tie cookie pops, sparkly marshmallows, a lawn ornament cake and pretty painted petits fours are just a tiny sampling of what’s inside.
Want to see more? Check out the adorable trailer.
As soon as my copy arrived at our door, Allison grabbed it up and has at least 5 things earmarked that “we” need to make, so I’ll be sharing some soon!
Want to turn your baking from ordinary to extra ordinary? Meaghan has a Sugarlicious prize pack for one lucky TidyMom reader!
UPDATE: Congrats to the winner, comment #282 Kim!
Win It: As part of the Sugarlious Blog Tour one lucky TidyMom reader will receive a copy of Sugarlicious a Sugarlicious apron, hot pink oven mitt, spatula, post-it notes, and a little recipe booklet!!
Required Entry: Leave a comment on this post telling me about the cutest dessert or treat you’ve ever made or would like to make! (if you are reading this post via email, please note that you must enter on the blog post, NOT by replying to the email)
Want an extra entry?
- Visit Meghan’s blog, A Decorated Cookie and come back here and leave a comment telling me your favorite treat from her blog.
Official Rules: No purchase necessary. Open to US residents only . Must be over 18. Giveaway will end on February 20, 2012 at 5:00 pm CST. One winner with a valid entry will be selected at random using random.org. Winner will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to claim their prize or another winner will be selected. TidyMom, Meghan Mountford and Harlequin are not responsible for lost or undelivered emails.
Good Luck!
Disclaimer: I was provided with a copy of Sugarlicious of my own for this review. All opinions and love of all things sugar and Meaghan are all my own.
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Really like the conversation hearts cookies… Don’t think can wait til next year !!! 😉
For my daughters 3rd birthday I made a Rapunzel cake and she loved it! So much fun trying out new things.
One of my fav treats I have made was hello Kitty cake pops via bakerella for my daughter’s 2 nd b-day!
For Valentines day this year, we made our own edible arrangement with heart shaped pineapple slices and rose strawberries and baked and decorated cookies in hearts, tick-tac-toe heart x’s and made heart funfetti cupcakes! So fun!
The crushed conversation heart cookies are so awesome and such a fun modern take on cookies on a stick!
Love the bunnies on a stick! 🙂
The cutest treat I ever made was decorated bridal shower cookies for my best friend’s bridal shower. I made a variety of shapes (wedding dresses, hearts, mini cakes, etc.) Everyone said how cute they were. 🙂 Would love to win!!!
I made cupcakes once that looked like corn on the cob. I put 3 cupcakes together, frosted them with yellow-tinted frosting and put lots of jelly beans on top in a variety of shades of yellow. Then on each end, I put a corn cob holder. They came out cute.
For my sons 2nd birthday I made Sesame Street cake pops, they were smooth since then he has been loving cake pops and is my number 1 taster.
One year for Christmas, we gave away cupcakes to our friends that we decorated to look like Santas, using red sugar, M&M eyes, and marshmallows for his beard, and reindeer, using pretzels for antlers and dumdums for a nose. They were pretty easy to make and super adorable! 🙂
For Valentine’s day a made a variety of cookies for my friends. But my favorite had to be the T-Rex holding a heart
I love her melted snowman. So cute!
I can remember when she first posted her gingerbread sewing cottage, I was so envious, in a good way, and inspired, try as I may my houses never look like that! I also, Love Mr.Melty!
Oh my, I SO LOVE the sweet strawberry cupcakes shown on Meaghan’s Feb.12 post (in the photo collage). They are too cute. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love the Doughnut cookies from her website. They are adorable!
Extra entry- I am a huge fan of Halloween LOVE IT!! So I have to say A Decorated Cookie favorite of mine are the spooky raisin spiders so cute, seem a healthy alternative (from the few ingredients posted) to all the candy though I’d probably devour the candy corn myself so would so love to try those for this years Halloween but the link to the ingredients isn’t working. (Mason jar snow globes so cute!!!)
Last Thanksgiving, I made a turkey cake and it looked so real that my husband’s grandmother stuck her finger in it thinking that we brought over an actual turkey. So fun!
A few months ago my 3 yr old and I were patrolling The Decorated Cookie blog and saw the adorable rainbows and unicorn cookies. She decided that we needed to make them and I am glad we did. They turned out adorable. She was such a happy little girl 🙂
The cutest thing I ever made was an Easter/Springtime cake I entered in a contest. It was lime green ruffled icing all over and a baby chick dressed as a bunny on top. Super cute if I say so myself and I won my category in the contest!
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My favorite thing to decorate is cupcakes and it’s a toss between my Easter cupcakes and summer cupcakes. For Easter, I use twizzlers, and dyed shredded coconut with little candy eggs to make cupcake easter egg baskets. In the summer I use brown sugar, a small round peppermint and a paper umbrella to make a tiny little beach scene complete with beach ball, sand, and a blue icing wave.
The cutest treat i’ve made was apirate ship cake for my sons birthday….but it looks like ther are many more I’m going to want to make in this book!
I would love to figure out how to decorate cake pops. And I’ve been making my kids’ birthday cakes for years – lollipop garden, space shuttle, etc.
the cutest dessert i ever made was a easter basket cake
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And I think the googly-eyed monster cupcakes on her blog are too cute!
I made a 3d bowling pin & ball for my son’s 5th bday party.
I have never made anything fancier than out of a box. I want this book!
I will be making her rock candy cookie pops!
I made some fun watermelon cookies that everyone loved. Love the giveaway! 🙂
I have been decorating cookies for about a year now ! Recently I made some melted snowmen decorated cookies and a bouquet of cookies for a friends baby shower! I am making my fist batch of cake balls tonight! I would love to hVe some this prize package so I can get some more ideas!
I just made the Titanic out of cake and candy for my 3rd graders class project.
I just made a double chocolate cake with ganache frosting and chocolate dipped strawberries for my sweetie for valentine’s day. Delicious!
As a grandmother of 6 wonderful little ones, making cute desserts is a blast & this looks like some awesome new ideas. Your site is wonderful!!
I think I love every one of my decoration, since all I do is for my kids, but the one that I love the most is the spiderman cake I made for my 3 yrs old son. I made out of buttercream and it was so smooth that I started to like buttercream!! lol. Everyone at the party didn’t believe that it was cake!! This book is on my whish list, so would love to win!!
I loved the heart cookies on a stick from Meghan’s blog. So cute!
Hmmm…..let’s see….the cutest treat I’ve ever made….well, that would probably have to be the rainbow fudge I made, using white chocolate that I tinted & flavored (with candy flavorings), for a “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” tea party that I hosted…NO WAIT!! That’s not the cutest treat I’ve ever made….I almost forgot about the “Sugared Egg Decorating Party” that I hosted for my friends!! I made all of the sugar egg “shells” out of sugar (of course!) using big egg chocolate molds, prior to the party so that everyone could concentrate on the fun decorating. I pre-made colored fondant “clay” as well as “chocolate clay” for everyone to use, as well as coconut shred “trees” made by using Royal Icing (glue) onto pretzel sticks (tree trunks), plus mini fondant sculpted bunnies & chicks & teddy bears & Easter eggs, for everyone to use, just in case they didn’t like their own sculpted creations (some of my friends are artistically impaired and requested my assistance, so I pre-sculpted clay fondant items for friends to truly enjoy the final product that they finished to take home!). We used Royal Icing in pretty pastel colors to decorate the eggs, and they turned out more wonderful then any sugar eggs I’ve ever seen in the stores! Everyone had a magnificent time, and tt was a great party, with everyone sitting around the table and sharing happy times while we explored our creative juice “flow”….I’m glad I reminded myself about this because I think we’re due for another Sugar Egg Party!!
When I visited the “Decorated Cookie” blog, it was so fun to see all of Meghan’s adorable creations, but the ones I loved the best, were the cupcakes with the mini books on top!! They were AWESOME!! And such a great idea for a tasty treat for a Book Club Meeting, or any other party, for that matter! As an artist myseld, it was inspiring because I hadn’t yet thought of actually “painting” with food coloring, such as she so wonderfully did!!
I love all your creations!! they are awesome. I will love to make a rainbow cake for my daughters birthday, so I will be trying this one on June!! thank you for you blog!! 😉
Cutest treat I’ve made?… Well, I’m more of a *yummy* baker than a *cute* baker, but I’m trying to learn to combine the two!… For my son’s 19th Birthday I made a KitKat/M&M cake… It was pretty cute 🙂
The CUTEST dessert I’ve made was probably the Easter Chick cupcakes I made from Hello Cupcake.
But one of the MOST MEMORABLE was the Cookie Dough Cupcakes from TidyMom! I miss those cupcakes! They were divine!!
My cutest treat I ever made was decorated sugar cookies for a monster bash bday party. I still love them to this day.
I made homemade peeps once! So cute.
My favorite treat on Meghan’s blog is the crushed conversation heart cookie pops! They are so cute!
Cutest and most gratifying treats I made I believe were these adorable chocolate rings. at my daughter’s wedding shower, I made the ring chocolate and the diamond white chocolate then brushed the diamond with edible white shimmer and the ring with gold. They were nestled on an adorable sugar glittered cupcake that sat daintily in tulip shaped muffin papers. She was so excited to see them and her guests were astonished that the mother of the bride made them and not a gourmet cupcake store!
The most delicious and cutest treat I ever made were cookies that were shaped to look like treats (rather ‘fish biscuits’) from the show LOST. It was my favorite show and I had fun recreating an item that was essentially a prop in the show itself
I just made the cutest decorated sugar cookies for valentines, and I will be making a black and white cake with Dulce de leche filling and Pirulin cookies all around, yummy
I would have to choose the crazy easy colorful petits fours from Meghan’s blog. They’re so cute and sound relatively simple to try!
The cutest thing I have made to date is my son’s 5 birthday cake. It was a tank w/ marshmallow angry birds, the cannon had the birthday candle in it.
I’ve made numerous birthday cakes decorated for my boys. The cutest treat I’ve ever made though are decorated sugar cookies for my oldest son. They were dinosaurs and came out really well. Took tons of time, though. I now have 4 boys and they have yet to see those cookies again:)
The cutest thing I made was multi-colored jello strata for my daughters b’day party. It was so pretty to look at and was a hit with the kids!
I made my husband a cookie bouquet of all of our favorite sayings and quotes for Valentines Day. He loved it and it was definitely yummy to eat. 🙂