Prerequisite: Minimal skills are required, however, this is a fast-paced class therefore, basic outlining and flooding skills are needed. You don’t need prior experience in florals or mixed media.
Love florals, texture, and artistic cookie design? This hands-on class explores a hydrangea-themed cookie set designed to help decorators elevate their work through dimension, mixed media, and refined techniques.
Students will decorate three cookies total:
- Hydrangea flower cookie
- Seed packet cookie
- Garden trowel cookie
This class is ideal for decorators who want to move beyond flat designs and build cookies that feel layered, intentional, and visually impactful. Students will work with a wide range of edible mediums, including moldable royal icing, edible lace, and multiple types of edible paper to create depth, texture, and realistic detail. Techniques taught include structured floral construction, hand-painting, watercolor effects, realistic wood-grain texture, and layered mixed-media application.
By the end of class, students will have a stronger understanding of how to combine multiple techniques within a single cohesive set, making their designs more dynamic, elevated, and adaptable for future projects, classes, or client work. Instruction is guided step by step, with a focus on artistic decision-making and technique control.
What’s Included: All cookies, icing, tools, and supplies needed to complete the three-cookie project are provided. Students will take home their finished cookie set.
Please note: The flowerpot shown in class photos is a display prop and is not a cookie, but it is included as part of the class setup.
About Pastry Shells: Pastry Shells is owned by Shelly Nunnally and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Shelly has been in the cookie industry since 2010 and blends artistic creativity with an engineering background to create efficient, repeatable, and high-impact designs. She is known for teaching techniques that help decorators level up their skills while building confidence and versatility. Shelly is also one of the four founders of Cookie Better and is excited to teach a technique-forward, creatively rich class.
