I don't know about you, but I was teetering on the edge of my seat all week as I watched the votes mount in our first-ever cookie decorating contest. There's no question, the race was neck and neck the entire time for one very simple reason: each...
Who better to feature in this week's Saturday Spotlight than our Vintage Vacation contest finalists?! Though the finalists were announced in our forums last night, it seemed only fair to let these fabulous entries bask another whole week in the...
How many of you have found yourself at one time or another plastered to the computer, feverishly monitoring your Facebook page with the hope that your latest cookie post would send your fan count soaring? Or maybe the better question is: how...
Boom! Bang! Bam! Yeah, those were the sounds of the fireworks that went off in my head as I saw one after another great cookie pop onto this week's hot list.* After I faked you out last week, I thought it only fair that I showcase some of...
Almost every cookie decorator I know loves to sit back and browse through the thousands of great cookie photos online. Whether you are checking out pages on Facebook, looking at favorite cookie blogs, or visiting Cookie Connection, it is all about...
Aha! I betcha thought I'd be posting the week's top 10 wedding cookies (after all, June is wedding month). Or the hottest Fourth of July cookies to celebrate that imminent holiday in my home country. But, noooo . . . I fooled you. This week, it's none...
Picture this: Sunlight sneaking past the umbrella over my head, a gentle breeze tempering those rays, a glass-like expanse of water stretching out before me, and a cup of morning (iced) coffee in hand . . . yippee, it's the first weekend of summer -...
Welcome to our second Cookier Close-up of the summer. You're in for a treat! Every cookier puts her/his own distinctive mark on the cookies s/he creates - that’s part of what makes this cookie decorating community so darn appealing! But...
Welcome to our first-ever Saturday Spotlight, where we at Cookie Connection plan to feature the hottest cookies/decorators each week in various (ever-changing and sometimes unpredictable!) categories. Since Father's Day is imminent, it...
We’ve got a lot to celebrate here at Cookie Connection: the launch of our new community site, the overwhelmingly positive support received so far from sponsors and cookiers (thank you, all), and the fact that we launched in time to take a summer...
Welcome to out first Cookier Close-up! Cookier Close-ups is the place on Cookie Connection where we celebrate the change-makers of the cookie decorating world. Whether forging new enterprises, inventing novel decorating techniques, or...
I was obviously a little obsessed with baskets this spring! Here's take two, a 3-D stenciled version, which is actually a tad easier than take one, the contoured baskets shared earlier this season. Heads-up: Take three, my needlepoint baskets, will...
I think it's safe to say that I'm an anomaly among cookiers in that I do 99-percent of my decorating with a parchment pastry cone - aka a cornet. No squeeze bottles or disposable plastics bags for me - ever! And only on rare occasion, when I need...
Lovely for Easter, May Day, or Mother's Day, these baskets are made from contoured cookie dough covered with frosting sheets. Simply swap out what's tucked inside to adapt them to a particular holiday! What you’ll need for one basket: Cookie...
