Hi, competitors! As you know, we’re entering the last week of entry prep for Julia M. Usher’s Cookie Art Competition™ (how exciting!), so I wanted to leave you with a few reminders to ensure that the entry process goes smoothly for you...
I may have missed the Saturday Spotlight, but I promise you this Sunday Spotlight is just as good and sure to impress! (I was traveling yesterday and got to my destination much later than planned, so I needed a little recovery time before settling into writing this post.) Congrats to all...
When my kids were little, every Halloween we would make ghost decorations from cheesecloth and laundry starch. The process was simple: soak cheesecloth in the starchy liquid, drape it over a rough form of compacted aluminum foil, and allow it to dry. The gauzy cheesecloth would harden, creating spooky, semi-transparent specters. In this project, naturally-starchy rice paper stands in for cheesecloth to make an edible version of this Halloween craft.
It may be very late on Saturday (or maybe it's Sunday already?), but I'm baaaacck, nearly on time, with another wonderful hot list full of festive fall vibes. (Say that three times fast!) As with last week, tonight's roundup features everything autumn...
Hey, gang! This week, we've got a great assortment of top-trending fall cookies as well as Watch-Learn-Create Challenge #51 entries in our Spotlight. Speaking of the challenge...
Join me in my kitchen! Yes, at long last, it’s here – my debut stencil-cutter-video kit in my brand-new Kitchen Club Collection, designed in partnership with Confection Couture Stencils and just in time for Halloween! Now, in each big release (five times a year), I provide...
Hi, everyone! I am so thrilled to see all of the amazing creations presented so far for the Watch-Learn-Create Challenge #51, whose featured guest is Julia M. Usher. Julia wrote in a comment...
I love flowers of all kinds, but I have a special fondness for flowers that look a little unique. The coneflower, with its spiky, vibrantly colored seed cone and skirt of purple petals, definitely fits the bill. Apparently, bees are just as partial to them as I am, so...
Hi, everyone! This week's Spotlight is testament to the fact that cookies can have a lot of staying power here on Cookie Connection. (Hint: So keep on posting! Posting means long-term visibility, not just in this community but amongst the broader world of visitors, tens of thousands of whom make their way to this site each week.) As it turns out...
First, my apologies to our featured artist, Bożena Aleksandrow, who has the patience of Job. I featured her fabulous Easter cookies back in April and, due to various work disturbances, I am just getting to her Cookier Close-up interview now. On the bright side...
First, one of the important updates! In case you didn't catch last week's post, the entry submission deadline for this year's competition has moved to October 15, 2022. I've had some unforeseen...
These lavender cookies were inspired, in their entirety, by a video I shot last year while mesmerized by a butterfly moving from sprig to sprig on a lavender bush. When I replayed the video...
It's that nebulous cookie season between summer and autumn when we don't know quite which cookies we should be making! Doubt me? Read on to see this week's hot list, where the cookies range from summery sea scenes to babies bundled in fall swaddling clothes, with every theme in between...
Hi, entrants and soon-to-be entrants! Just a very quick, but VERY IMPORTANT update! Due to some unforeseen - but not serious - personal issues that will prevent me from overseeing the judging process at the original time, I have extended the competition due date by one month to October 15, 2022 (5 pm CDT)...
You may still be lingering poolside, or perhaps just starting the summer wind-down and prep for back to school, but the internet is telling us it's already time for Halloween cookies! Say it isn't so?! Just take a look at...
