Hello, cookiers! After baking and flooding close to 300 cookies in the last three days (with a few hundred more looming on the horizon), I am in a deep and seemingly inescapable cookie rut. That said, I'm throwing caution to the wind and...
I frankly wasn't sure when I would get around to posting this week's Saturday Spotlight. (I was on vacation this week and inundated - in a good way - with family and other house guests.) But with cookies as exceptional as those topping this week's hot...
It is fair to say that decorated cookies are quickly becoming the new cupcake. Cookies are showing up everywhere. People who never spoke to me about cookies or any other baked goods are now sending me photos of decorated cookies with comments...
High on spice yet relatively delicate in texture, this dough is perfect for 2-D cookies and small-scale 3-D construction projects, like my sandwiched baskets and Fabergé egg cookies shown in the attachments. It also spreads less than my...
My oh my, time has sure flown by! It's already the season for appreciating those dwindling spare moments before the onslaught of carpooling kids, packing lunches, and the otherwise busy school year begins. How are you spending this precious time?...
Yes, it's your lucky day. I've finally got the site's first official giveaway ready for any and all interested takers! I'm calling this one The Great Spring Summer Cleaning Giveaway, because I had every intention of doing it in the spring,...
Hello, Cookie Connection members! Have I got a treat for you! Later this month, I'll be welcoming member Aymee VanDyke as a guest blogger. Her "column," which is in need of a name (more on that in a later post), will cover all you ever wanted to...
Just like last week, I'm loving the eclecticism (and immense skill) displayed in this week's hottest cookies. So much so that I'm honoring those in the big, broad hot list again - as opposed to choosing any special cookie subset. (Though heads up: I...
Though perhaps best known for her blockbuster blog, Glorious Treats, which delves into everything from cookies and cakes to all-out dessert parties, Glory Albin is far more than her online presence. In just over three years, she’s become...
Cookie Connection has quickly grown into a large and incredibly diverse international community (woo hoo!), and this week's Top 10 cookies truly underscore this point with their wide-ranging styles, techniques, and design perspectives. The...
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...
Hi, all, my site host, Hoop.la, routinely monitors the requests and needs of all of the sites that they support and uses that feedback to determine various platform upgrades. How great of them, right?! Well, last night they announced several new...
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...
Oh, you won't want to miss our next live (text-based) Cookie Chat! Glory of the wildly popular Glorious Treats will be picking up where she left off in an earlier Cookier Close-up, sharing tips about a world of sweet things. Want to...
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...
