Located at Meet and Cheese

1790 N Highland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15241

September 9th 6-8pm : Wet on Wet Designs

September 24th 6-8pm : Lettering and Details

October 8th 6-8pm : Hand Painting

This series is 3 separate workshops focusing in detail on key cookie decorating skills. Take 1, 2, or all 3!

9/9 : Wet-on-Wet Cookie Designs

You'll flood a cookie in wet icing and then drop color straight into it — the design sinks in flush and dries perfectly flat and glossy, no piping skill required.

We'll work through five techniques, and you'll leave understanding why they work, not just how to copy them.

You'll make six finished cookies:

• Polka dot — learning the outline and flood

• Hearts — the scribe drag

• Feathered chevron

• Marbled swirl

• A spiderweb (and the flower that's made the exact same way)

• One entirely your own

You'll learn:

• How to read royal icing consistency by feel and by count — the single skill that makes everything else possible

• Outlining and flooding a clean, glassy surface

• Popping bubbles before they crater your cookie

• Four drop-in design techniques

• How to drag, when to stop, and how to fix it when you don't

9/24 Cookie Lettering

You'll start on parchment with drills, move through spacing and layout, and then letter six cookies of your own. And you'll learn how to fix a mistake instead of scraping the whole thing and starting over, which changes everything about how it feels to try.

You'll make six lettered cookie plaques — two guided, four saying whatever you choose from our fall phrase menu, or your own words. Names, phrases, inside jokes, all fair game.

You'll learn:

• How to make puffy, perfect letters

• Anchor, lift, drop — the technique that produces a smooth line, and why your instinct is wrong

Note: cookies come pre-flooded with a dried base so we can spend the full two hours on lettering.

10/8 Hand-Painted Cookies

This is the class for people who think they can't decorate — because it isn't decorating, it's painting. Your cookie is a smooth dried canvas, your paints are edible, and everything you know about a brush transfers directly.

Taught by an artist with 15+ years of fine art training, this class brings real painting technique to cookies: mixing your own colors, controlling dilution, building value, and layering. We'll also play with nine different textures, from glassy-smooth washes to raised relief, stippled foliage, splatter, and alcohol blooms that spread pigment into clouds on their own.

You'll make six painted cookies:

• A swatch and texture tile you'll keep as a reference

• A value study

• Loose florals on a stencil-textured base

• A layered autumn leaf

• A sunset landscape with blooming clouds

• One entirely your own, on a raised relief base

You'll learn:

• Mixing edible paint — and why water is the one thing you must never use

• Three dilutions: wash, mid-tone, and full opacity

• Brush loading, pressure, and the three-stroke petal

• Blending, layering, and dry brushing

• Nine textures: stippling, splatter, alcohol blooming, luster dusting, relief work, and more

Perfect for: painters, people who love watercolor, anyone who's ever felt like piping isn't their thing. Also the most beautiful class to photograph.

Note: we use a small amount of food-grade alcohol as a paint medium — it evaporates completely and leaves no flavor. A non-alcohol option is available on request.