This week, our CookieCon 2014 series continues with the talented and oh-so-entrepreneurial Susan Schmitt of The Painted Cookie. As it turns out, Susan harks from Wilton, Connecticut, not far from my...
We’re back again with another amazing CookieCon 2014 instructor – Anne Yorks of Flour Box Bakery! I first stumbled upon Anne’s cookies about two years ago – and then promptly fell head over my gaping-to-the-floor...
This month, we begin the first in our series of Cookier Closeups focused on the oh-so-talented presenters at CookieCon. Over the next few weeks leading up to CookieCon, and possibly some to follow, I aim to interview all seven of these lovely ladies!...
While contemplating paths in the cookie world, a Cookie Connection member recently commented in one of our forums about the seemingly endless choices for cookie expression. Should she blog? Expand her for-profit cookie business? Teach classes?...
Did you ever imagine that something as simple as decorated cookies - a straightforward mixture of sugar, flour, and a few other things - could connect us so powerfully? When I started this site, I certainly had hopes of making cookie friends outside...
Now that the dust has settled (a bit) after the whirlwind of last night's CookieCon reg, I thought, "Why not stir it up again?!" So here you go . . . I know, I know, our cookier of honor in this close-up needs no introduction. None. What. So....
You've probably noticed that most of our Cookier Close-ups have focused on how people got started in cookies and the business of cookie decorating. (And that's because they have!) This is all well and good, perhaps, but I’ve decided to...
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...
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...
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 out first Cookier Close-up! Cookier Close-ups is the place on Cookie Connection where we celebrate the change-makers of the cookie decorating world. Whether forging new enterprises, inventing novel decorating techniques, or...
