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.
Written by blogger-extraordinaire Meghan Mountford, you can sample her work upfront on her blog The Decorated Cookie. In addition, she pulls together a gathering of all types of things crafty and edible in the blogosphere as editor of the Edible Crafts section of the Craft Gossip site.
This book has some cute pictures and ideas. I especially love her Starry Night cookie. I think it is a great book for a cookie beginner. The instructions are easy to read and the pictures are clear.