How to Top-Coat, Outline, and Flood Cookies

Ready to express your inner cookie artist? Well then, you’re in the right place! Welcome to Lesson 6 of “Julia M. Usher’s Ultimate Cookie Decorating Series“! NOTE: This video is one of 16 videos originally filmed for my DVD series, which was discontinued in November 2014. Select videos from the series will be released to YouTube over time, but my app will remain the only place where you can find all of the original DVD videos. To learn more about my app, click here: Top-coating a cookie so that it’s perfectly smooth and bubble-free is often easier said than done. In this video, I share my tips for achieving consistently smooth top coats, and explain when it makes sense to top-coat versus outline and flood. As extra gifts, I reveal a trick that prevents cratering in small, flooded spaces and step-by-step instructions for the needlepoint technique - essentially outlining and flooding taken to the extreme