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I don't know about you, but I'm glad to see us finally emerging from the polar vortex - at least on this site. Not that all the snowflakes, penguins, and other wintry cookies weren't great. They were! But . . . they kept reminding me of my...

This week, we’re incredibly fortunate to be joined by party designer and cookier extraordinaire Angela Rudy of Oh, Sugar! Events . She’s also one of the lovely ladies who’s headlining at CookieCon in a few weeks. True to my word (at...

My hope when starting Cookie Connection was that it would not only be a great place for photo sharing and increasing the overall visibility of the cookie community, but also a vehicle for learning and advancing our skills. To that end, the site has...

I would like to start by saying thank you. I was nervous about my first post, but you guys gave it an overwhelmingly positive response. For that, I thank you. And because of that overwhelmingly positive response, I wrote up a tutorial to answer the...

Day 18 (February 20), 10:30 am to 2:00 am.   My teaching days here in Portugal (three of them) don't start until Saturday, so the next two days are designated sightseeing days! And it seems as if my host Teresa has a lot planned for us to do. Woo...

Day 16 (February 18), 9:00 am to 10:00 pm.   I haven't planned much for today other than transit to Portugal. Though I am sad to leave Spain, I'm pretty darn excited to meet more cookiers in another part of the globe! I prep for a long day of...

Days 12 to 14 (February 14 to 16), 9:00 am to 1:00 am.   After debriefing about our first weekend's worth of classes, Claudia (my host) and I have tweaked a few things for this weekend's series. We've decided to eliminate a few cookies in the...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I'm thrilled to announce the addition of another top-flight decorator to our team of contributors - the fabulously talented Lucy Samuels of UK-based Honeycat Cookies .   Every other month, Lucy will be pushing your (and possibly her!) creative boundaries with an innovative cookie design and technique tutorial. For her debut post below, she explores an interesting twist on the wet-on-wet technique, which, as you'll soon see, is a great way to get some relief (so to speak)...

Today marks my last day of classes in Spain, and it's bittersweet. Sweet, because my host Claudia Cetro and her team of assistants (aka mis amigas queridas) were absolutely fabulous in every respect. I don't even know how to express the joy of...

Wow, what a plethora of spring cookies popping up early on the site! I credit the abundance to the polar vortex wreaking havoc on many of us. Who wouldn't prefer daisies and butterflies to being inundated with snow and ice?! Or not having to decorate...

Day 8 (February 10), 10:30 am.   Gad! How indulgent! I hate to admit it, but I sleep in much later than any reasonable person should. But what counts is that I've recovered from my marathon weekend of cookie decorating and teaching, and I'm ready...

They say “necessity is the mother of invention,” and nothing could better describe the life events of our next Cookier Close-up featured guest - Georganne Bell, creator of the popular blog LilaLoa and CookieCon 2014 presenter.   ...