MEAGHAN MOUNTFORD
Meaghan Mountford has been a professional cookie decorator for over a decade. Her first book on the art of cookie decorating, Cookie Sensations: Creative Designs for Every Occasion, was published in 2007 by Rutledge Hill Press. She is currently working on her second book, The Crafty Kitchen, expanding her cookie crafts to cupcakes, cakes and other sweets. Meaghan’s cookies have appeared in “The New York Times,” “The Washington Post,” “Washingtonian Magazine,” and “Modern Bride,” and her blog, “the decorated cookie,” has been featured on hundreds of sites, including Saveur, The Hostess with the Mostess, Craftzine.com, The Kitchn, ReadersDigest.com, Sweet Designs: A Blog by Amy Atlas, Evite, Shine by Yahoo, Serious Eats, and CakeSpy. After taking over as Edible Crafts editor at CraftGossip.com in the Fall of 2008, the column has grown exponentially and is one of top blogs on the site. Meaghan also has an MFA in Literature from American University and a MA in Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. You can visit her blog The Decorated Cookie, at http://www.thedecoratedcookieblog.com/, and her column, Edible Crafts, at CraftGossip.com: http://ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com/
SUGARLICIOUS: 50 CUTE AND CLEVER TREATS FOR ANY OCCASION
Harlequin/Morrow, 2012
An LJ Bestseller
With a dab of bright icing and a sprinkle of color, you can transform drab sugar cookies into glowing planets, plain marshmallows into scary zombies and simple cake pops into blooming flowers. Meaghan Mountford, creator of the blog The Decorated Cookie and the Edible Crafts editor of CraftGossip.com, shares her secrets for producing adorable, edible art. Full of beautiful color photos and illustrated step-by-step directions, this guide will demystify professional techniques so that anyone can learn how to pipe icing like a pro and have fun with fondant. With the lively inspiration and foolproof directions in this book, you can discover how to personalize any sweet treat and turn your home kitchen into a studio for sugarlicious works of art!
Readers who enjoyed professional cookie decorator Mountford’s first cookbook, Cookie Sensations: Creative Designs for Every Occasion, will love her latest. It is not only creative but so delightful it will make readers want to go straight to the kitchen and bake… This imaginative collection includes projects for so many occasions that it is sure to be a popular item throughout the year. — Library Journal
COOKIE SENSATIONS: CREATIVE DESIGNS FOR EVERY OCCASION
Rutledge Hill/Thomas Nelson, 2007
Cookie Sensations is a step-by-step guide to creating edible art. It features templates, detailed instructions, illustrations and information on resources. Everything you need to succeed is in this book, including recipes for cookies and icings, directions for coloring icings, instructions on master your decorating technique and even tips on fixing mistakes.