This Close-up is special not only because it's with the super fabulous cookier-now-author Lisa Snyder of The Bearfoot Baker, but also because it marks the start of our CookieCon 2015 interview series. Over the next several weeks in the...
Widely regarded as one of YouTube's favorite cookiers, Hani (aka Haniela's ) has been producing cookie videos for us at the rate of about three per week since January 2013. That's 387-plus videos in total, folks, and speaking from...
It’s hard to believe that the subject of our next Close-up has only been decorating for a little less than three years, but, yes, it’s very true. Marta Torres, aka The Cookie Lab , may be a relative newbie to cookie-land, but she...
If there’s ever a triple-threat (or quadruple- or quintuple-threat) in the cookie world, it’s Ginny McCormick-Levack, owner of Creative Cookier and subject of this month’s Close-up . She does it all – she decorates,...
Hands down, teaching is the thing I like most about cookie decorating. Not only do I get a huge kick from seeing students’ eyes light up when they master my projects or a new technique, but I also learn a ton from everyone attending –...
Yes, this month we’re talking to the Queen of Wafer Paper in Italy – if not the whole wide world! And that queen would be Lucia Simeone, owner of DolceLulù , a cake artist from Rome known the globe over for her magnificently...
Hello, I’m back with the next interview in our ongoing Cookie’sCool instructor series – Francesca Belfiore of Dolcimaterieprime ! An architect who “likes to turn everything into sweets,” Francesca often works in mixed...
We marvel over her delicate handpainting. We mutter oohs and ahhs at the sight of her intricate piping work. Heck, we stop dead in our tracks nearly every time she posts something to this site! Yes, I’m talking about Evelin Milanesi, aka...
In this fourth edition of special Cookier Close-up s focused on Cookie’sCool instructors, we visit with Jacinda (aka Jaci) Baynes Harper of Ali’s Sweet Tooth , a cookier widely known for her romantic shabby chic style and predilection for...
Next up in our Cookie’sCool series, we chat with Cookie’sCool instructor Mallory Mae Chiavacci of ButterWinks , perhaps best known for her amazingly detailed Alphonse Mucha-inspired series and her distinctive “wet-by-wet”...
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,...
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),...
Sometimes a personality or product becomes so recognized that the brand name turns into common vernacular for all such similar things (like “Kopykake” as shorthand for “projection device” or “KitchenAid” for...
[EDITOR'S NOTE: As many of you learned this week, Jill will not be appearing at CookieCon as planned due a death in her family. We at Cookie Connection send Jill and her family our love and sincerest wishes for comfort and healing at this most difficult time. We also believe that Jill's message of uplifting others - expressed here and in all she does in the cookie community - rings louder and clearer, now more than ever. With Jill's permission, we share these words from our earlier...
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...
