As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of the next, I find myself reflecting on what has happened in my life over the last year, and trying to figure out what went well, what went less well, and what I can do to improve in the new year...
Well, after a very long fall season in St. Louis (my neighbor's golden gingko tree still had all of its leaves until last week), I can officially declare it's winter! I had to don triple layers today to...
Hi, all! Now that the hoopla from the Cake Masters Magazine and EAG Awards has settled, it's time to focus on celebrating the wonders of our very own cookie community and those cookiers...
Happy December! The holidays are finally upon us, and pretty soon we will never want to see piping bags filled with red and green icing for as long as we live...
As much as I love Christmas – the time spent with family and friends, all those smells, and, yes, even "Last Christmas" by Wham! – there is always the thing about the presents...
Hello, my name is Violet, and I love making needlepoint (aka cross stitch) pattern cookies. What you are looking at here is a large (8-inch) heart cookie decorated with a needlepoint rose pattern - my first cookie of this magnitude...
Well, well, the day has finally come! After nearly a year in discussion, design, and development with my new partner Stencil Ease, I'm thrilled to announce the official launch of my new Prettier Plaques stencil series...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here on Cookie Connection! While most people ramp up for the Christmas season after Thanksgiving, we cookiers have to start planning our cookie sets well in advance of the holiday rush...
Our November site artist Kari Arroyo, aka Yankee Girl Yummies, is no newcomer here! From January to December 2014, she contributed a wealth of wonderful tutorials to Cookie Connection, all under the title of Dear Yankee Girl.
November has finally come! The days are shorter, and sometimes cloudy, and the air is colder . . . but the trees put themselves to bed for the long sleep of winter, delighting us with their gorgeous, vibrant leaves.
Once again, we've hopped-skipped-and-jumped straight from Halloween and onto Christmas! Aside: I've never understood why Thanksgiving gets the short end of the cookie-stick each year, but I've got some new Thanksgiving...
Since 2012, I've had the pleasure of participating, in one way or the other, in the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show (OSSAS), founded by cake artist extraordinaire Kerry Vincent...
I’ve been loving our October site art, haven’t you? The colors and textures are so perfectly evocative of fall...
Ahh, it's easy to be led astray, to thinking we're just a photo-sharing site. I mean, those galleries on the home page, with all those gorgeous cookies, are hard not to notice, right?! ...
Icing sugar lies at the base of cookie decorating, be it with royal icing or glaze or buttercream. It was through Cookie Connection host Julia Usher’s comments about her teaching experiences in other countries that I realised that icing sugar isn’t the same all over the world...
