It's hard to pinpoint the exact birthday of this (my beloved) site. It launched "softly" into cyberspace in Spring 2013 with different people getting introduced to it at various stages of development. About a month before I announced its birth...
This edition of "How Would You Cookie This?" is being brought to you by Dana (aka Dana’s Daydreaming Cookies on Cookie Connection )! Just a little background info for all of you who are new to my blog – this fun segment is...
The weather here in Missouri has been glorious this weekend - in the 80s, but still cool and breezy enough that I can sit comfortably on my front porch without being on constant mosquito alert. Tonight, hubby and I seized this rare moment by firing up...
Lucky us! In this Cookier Close-up , we get to know Cookie’sCool instructor Pam Sneed a whole lot better. Inveterate glaze user, Pam has staunchly held her ground amidst a sea of royal icing enthusiasts and conquered this often tricky medium,...
So this week I'm doing what I usually do when I'm in a rut: I'm shaking things up! Don't worry, I'll spare you my rendition of Donna Summer's smash tune from the 80s . (That would be too scary!) I'm just taking a break from the usual...
Wow, it's taken a lot longer than usual for my internal clock to return to St. Louis, Missouri time after my trip to Genoa, Italy last week - and even longer for me to tend to the consequences of reentry into non-teaching life (i.e., mountains of...
Some daughters give chocolates to pay tribute to their moms. Others send pretty bouquets of flowers . . . And then there are those rare others, like this week's honorees, who take the time to craft something uniquely special - a cookie gift that...
Ok, it’s not really that dramatic. But it’s also not a fabulous, perfect tutorial with a happy ending either. Despite the fact that this is one technique that didn’t work out as well as I had hoped, I do want to share what I learned...
Phew - how time flies! Just two more days 'til Cinco de Mayo, and I'm still catching up on my Easter cookies! If you're like me and haven't yet made cookies to go with the tostadas and tacos for the upcoming festivities, now's the time....
[EDITOR'S NOTE: If you didn't see my recent forum post about changes to our team of contributors, let me quickly catch you up! Karen Anderson is leaving the helm of her How DID You Do That? column to pursue a new business in dog rescue. (Go, Karen! We will miss you!) Aymee VanDyke is on a leave of absence until the fall for health reasons. (Get well soon, Aymee!) And . . . last but not least . . . I am over-the-moon excited to announce this new monthly column, hosted by the supremely...
Phew! It's pretty fair to say I'm on Mothers' Day overload - with my own cookies, that is. I just completed another day-long video shoot, and several weeks of the usual nose-to-the-grindstone, head-in-the-sand prep that precedes these...
Rarely does a cookier make a mark on the cookie kingdom with one set. But when this month’s featured cookier, Stephanie Kappel of The Hungry Hippopotamus , appeared on the scene in 2011 with her Lichtenstein pop art cookies (two photos below),...
I never cease to marvel at how many different interpretations there can be of the same basic shape. And nothing underscores this point better than the variety of Easter eggs that have graced the site this past week! While it's verging on too...
Easter may be a bit later than usual this year, but that's given me plenty of time to come up with a new design to share with you. I'm particularly fond of these little fellows. They're such solemn owls, with an important job of caring for those eggs,...
With all the detailed decorating I've been doing lately, it's no wonder I can't see the forest through the trees - with anything! (I say, as I adjust my glasses, hoping that the computer screen will soon come into focus . . .) So . . . in a...
