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As you can see, I'm on a site housekeeping kick today!   Another quick reminder that Vintage Vacation contest entries are soon due - tomorrow, on July 5, 2013 at 5 pm CDT, to be exact! Please be on time with your submissions, as the...

COMING SOON! Here's a Cookie Connection exclusive event you don't want to miss: a live (text-based) chat with Amber Spiegel of Sweet Ambs!When: Saturday, July 6, 12 noon CDTWhere: Here on Cookie ConnectionWhat: Amber will pick up where she left off in...

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...

Woo hoo! I'm thrilled to announce that Karen Anderson has joined Cookie Connection as a regular featured blogger, with her very own blog category called, "How DID You Do That?" Every few weeks or so, she'll be featuring compelling cookie work...

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...

Well, you asked and we acted! Based on some member suggestions in this forum, I just set up a new Member Meetup forum with areas for more casual cookie chats and to stage tool and other exchanges with members. I also moved the existing Member...

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 -...

Hi, new and veteran members alike!   This post is an important PSA (public service announcement). PLEASE READ IT! I've been seeing a ton of fabulous photos on the site (amazing and inspired work, indeed)! Thank you all for sharing.   But I'm...

It often happens that those who decorate cookies have leftover white or colored  plastic chocolate   (aka modeling chocolate) or fondant. Not sure what to do with it? Have some fun with marbling! (I use plastic chocolate, but the method is...

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...