You Can't Judge a Cookie by Its Cutter: Make 100 Cookie Designs with Only a Handful of Cookie Cutters

This book was a great start. Hope there’s more to come! Would love it if Patti Paige would write another book about the art of decorating with ALL of the tips and tricks she’s learned along the way. Like how to apply Stenciling, Airbrushing, or how to use a Projector to up your cookie game.

This book gave me some inspiration on how to reuse some of my cookie cutters! I always see bakers reuse certain shapes and create something new. Now, I'm better at seeing different shapes in my cookie cutters. I also like that the book included recipes and where they purchased the cookie cutters they used in the book!

I purchased this book for a friend. Its a nice book if you want to learn the different techniques on how to make decorated cookies like the pros. Nice pictures. Instructions are easy to follow. Recommend one for yourself and one for a friend.

Hope to take the lessons in this book on to find more designs. Patti makes it easy to understand. J

i think this book is fantastic! i think her cookie and icing recipes are spot on. her descriptions and method are great and are explained very well. i looked for this book after watching videos of patti on youtube. i would recommend anyone interested in this book to go watch her on youtube to see if you like her approach before buying the book. for me, it's been a huge help and definitely worth the purchase. it's very in-depth and considered - she even has a little section on how to package cookies to ship! thanks patti!

After reading this book I would never look at a cookie cutter the same way again. Some truly ingenious and creative ideas. This book is a great buy filled with so many tips. A must for your collection. Will recommend.

I bought the book because I wanted help in "thinking outside the box" in designing cookies using the cookie cutters I already own. I wanted to be more adapt at adding or removing parts of a cut shape to create a completely different cookie design. I was some what disappointed with this book. The author presents a cookie cutter with a handful of photos, and directions to decorate different designs created from one cutter. I found this book to be too simplistic. The majority of the images the author creates are very obvious and do not involve much creativity. These "different" designs are created by positioning the cookie cutter in a different way than it was intended. For example, the Guitar Cookie cutter was positioned on its side with the neck of the guitar facing toward the right(instead of it vertically positioned with the guitar neck pointing up) to create a "ship in a bottle" design. This same guitar cookie cutter was turned upside down with the neck of the guitar facing downward for a hand holding "cotton candy." Basically the author repositioned the cookie cutter from its intended position and decorated it in another design. The heart cookie cutter and the 4 different designs on the cover of the book are created by manipulating the position of the cookie cutter. There are detailed instructions for decorating each design with a photo of the decorated cookie, but no photos of the decorating process. I would have preferred photos depicting the decorating process rather than lengthy instructions, especially since the instructions are "basically" the same for every cookie. 1. Make the cookies, 2. Make the royal icing and tint, 3. Outline the cookie, etc. I was hoping the author would have "altered" the shape cut out from the cookie cutter into a different design. For example, make a Birthday Cake with a football, Easter egg or oval cutter by cutting the two long ends off.. Or Make a Baby Carriage with a Circle cutter by cutting a 1/4 slice from the circle. I think this book would be most helpful for the very novice cookie decorator.

I am so excited to recieve this book in the mail today. The book is a must have. I am really impressed with the directions and the lesson learned from the examples. Very good book for the average person just wanting to learn how to be a weekend cookie maker or the professional. I might just get three more for Christmas gifts. Love this book its a keeper

見ていて本当に楽しいです。型の使い方だけじゃなく色もカラフルで楽しいです。全編英語ですがクッキーを作られる方なら何となく見て理解ができると思うのでオススメです☆

buon libro, anche se lo pensavo meglio. Le figure a volte sono particolari e non sempre a parere mio, carine. Comunque può dare degli spunti.

Este libro explica, como sacar el maximo provecho de tus cutteres de cookie en casa. Hay recetas y fotos paso a paso

Great book! The only book you'll need!

A great book for those who enjoy baking and decorating cookies. Lots of inspirational ideas and pictures. I would not think this would be so good for a complete beginner as some of the ideas are quite advanced but viewing online videos of icing techniques first and some practice first would help. There are no step by step picture instructions just written ones and a picture of the finished cookies. Also be aware that this is a North American publication and some of the cutters are not as common in the UK, such as baseball mitt, Texas outline, baseball cap. I suppose you could use other thin metal cutters and adapt by bending into the required shapes. However there are a couple of good looking cookie recipes and pages of useful general tips and the recipes are in grams as well as cups. Despite all this, I'm very glad to have found this book, it has certainly given me lots of ideas of how to use or adapt my own cutters and I will also try some of the recipes. I found a video on YouTube of the author making cookie cutters, put in Patti Paige cookies and you will see a good housekeeping half hour demo. That's how I became aware of this book in the first place!