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I'm back! I returned early this week from summertime temperatures in Jamaica, Cozumel, and Grand Cayman (on Creative Cookiers' recent cookie cruise) to truly fall-like weather here in Missouri! Today, I had to...

The chalkboard shelf is a popular item among cookie decorators. It is used to display cookies at farmers' markets, during pop-up sales at home, during birthday parties, and so on. Here are a couple of pictures of a real display shelf with cookies, kindly shared with us by...

Despite my love of Halloween cookies, I absolutely hate horror movies. Jump scares send me flying. Zombies give me nightmares. The screaming, the dark, the blood . . . no, thank you. This is all just to say that I can be...

Oh gosh, people, I don't know about you, but I'm already bubbling over with excitement about the imminent holiday season. Thanksgiving is the only time of the year when all of my immediate family and their families get together, so it is...

While many of us are great when we're behind a piping bag (or under the light of a projector), we struggle when it comes to taking photos of our work. Customers often buy with their eyes first, so it's important that we...

I can still feel the seasonal ambiguity in the air! Just as the weather is vacillating between extremes here in St. Louis (one day, it's balmy and hot, and, the next, it's cool and crisp), so too are our cookie themes bouncing all over the map! This week, we've got everything from...

Welcome to Practice Bakes Perfect Challenge #36! I don't know about you, but with this cooler fall weather (at least here in the Great Lakes region), I am fired up to get my oven fired up to bake some cookies! And since it is also back-to-school season, I am ready to learn a new thing or two! As many of you know, I...

We seem to be plagued by SCD (Seasonal Confusion Disorder) on the site this week! Some of you have cookied the transition from summer to fall; others are fully into fall; and still others (in the Southern Hemisphere) are celebrating the arrival of spring! No matter what...

If you're one who explores all the sidebars of this site (as I hope you do!), you're probably wondering what's up with the recent appearance of this photo...

Judging by the number of entries we had for this Practice Bakes Perfect Challenge, I would say that many of you spent more time in your kitchens than at the beach this summer! We had a whopping 55 (!!!!) entries for this challenge...

This is not my first project with cookie spools. The first one, back in 2017, was my entry for Practice Bakes Perfect Challenge #21 (the bimonthly challenge series organized by Bakerloo Station here on Cookie Connection). On that occasion, I learned to...

I wish I could drum up some clever and catchy verbiage to properly introduce this week's top cookie art (because it is truly astounding), but Australian jet lag seems to still have the best of me. So rather than drone on with words that are likely to...