Allerton Park & Retreat Center

Experience Level: Beginner

Learn to get festive with your cookies at Holiday Cookie Decorating on Tuesday. Dec. 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Mansion Carriage House. Participants will use royal frosting and two types of butter cream, and instructor Jennifer Holhubner will demonstrate and explain flooding, wet-on-wet technique, outlining, and how to form flowers and cut out butter cream.

Cookies will be provided and participants should bring a container to take home their decorated cookies.

$75/person. Register by Nov. 24. All sales are final.

If you will need disability-related accommodations to participate, please email Olivia Bunting at owarren@illinois.edu.

About the instructor

Champaign-Urbana native Jennifer Holhubner taught herself how to decorate cakes when she was 16 years old and took up cookie decorating in 2019.

“Although they intimidated me, I forged on and got better with each order. I still have room to grow as we all do in whatever task we take on,” she said. “But I love to share the aspects of baking and decorating. I can actually now say, I am cookier!”

Jennifer also teaches decorating classes at Parkland College.