Ringing in the New Year - with a Cookie Calendar!
Sure, I'm bound to celebrate with a little bubbly and caviar too, but I like to start each New Year with a fresh, uncluttered desk calendar. I should add that I supplement that calendar with a...
Sure, I'm bound to celebrate with a little bubbly and caviar too, but I like to start each New Year with a fresh, uncluttered desk calendar. I should add that I supplement that calendar with a...
Last year in April, I shared a cookie tutorial featuring dimensional royal icing flowers on lattice cookies. I used a huge round cutter to create the lattice, a tool normally used to cut an entire lattice pie crust top in one fell swoop. In this tutorial, I...
Hey, cookiers! I wanted to alert you to a great awards program that I am judging, and for which some of you may be eligible, which is now open for nominations! Celebrating those who inspire and shape our work helps strengthen the collective cookie community, so I encourage you to take part...
With Christmas just two days away, it seems only appropriate to feature our top-trending Christmas cookies again! So that's what I've done! This week's hot list is also confined to...
When I was growing up, our silverware drawer was always filled with a hodgepodge of cutlery patterns. Some were modern and streamlined, others vintage and ornate. I was known to...
I decided to take a page from Julia's playbook to keep the holiday inspiration flowing. (As a side comment, I can assure you that it is hard to go wrong by taking any pages from Julia's playbook!) What all of this means is that...
I don't often feature the top-trenders in a single clip set, but since we're getting so close to Christmas, I wanted to leave you with as much holiday inspiration as possible. That being said, this week's hot list is comprised of...
It's the start of crunch time for me (and many others, I'm sure)! There are a lot of cookies to be made and mailed, and a limited time to complete them. I feel like a...
It’s almost December, and after so many years of sharing tutorials on Julia M. Usher's Cookie Connection, I declare my November/December 3-D Christmas tree cookie tutorial a tradition. This year's tree...
Hi, everyone! I'm giving Lisa a well-deserved break from Spotlights this weekend! (I hope I can measure up to the great standard she's set in my absence!) I also hope you all had a...
Yes, after a long hiatus, I'm finally back with another Cookier Close-up, and I couldn't be more thrilled to get to know our September 2023 site artist a whole lot better...
The other day I came across Craftsy’s gelatin bubble tutorial by Erin Gardner. The tutorial details a really simple technique using small balloons and gelatin to create whimsical bubbles to decorate a cake. It seemed like an easy jump to go from...
We are in full Thanksgiving mode at my house. There will only be a small gathering this year but I am still pulling out all the stops. The bird, the sides, and, of course, all of the sweets! I like to do...
Hi, everyone! I am finally back with Watch-Learn-Create Challenge #55! Dimensional mixed media is its topic, and our featured guest is the very talented...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in my Kitchen Club! This month’s release, simply called my Holiday Snow Globe kit, shakes up the traditional snow globe cookie (pun fully intended) with some very festive designs...