Event News and Recaps

Hi, everyone! As you may know, I’ve been working rather covertly this past year on a special project. I've been dying to talk about it but was sworn to secrecy until it was finished! Well, today I can finally spill the beans, and I am so excited to share my news with you – particularly with my Japanese-speaking friends...

Guess what, everyone?! The Bake Fest is back, and so am I! I am beyond excited, because I will be teaching another...

How exciting! The cookie competition of the year is here in its brand new, shiny virtual format! Here is where you will find all of the information to help you register for and later submit your entry into the 2021 virtual edition of Julia M. Usher’s Cookie Art Competition™...

Hmmm . . . who are those mystery judges of my competition, you ask? I’m sorry if I’ve come across as unusually secretive or slow to reveal, but going virtual with Julia M. Usher’s Cookie Art Competition™ has introduced some new twists that have taken some time to sort through. One of those twists came with...

Great news! Many of our Cookie Connection contributors (and yours truly) were recently interviewed for and just featured in this weekend piece for Canada's National Post by cookie enthusiast Natalie Jesionka. As the title suggests...

Hello, everyone! As you may have heard, I have decided to take my cookie art competition fully virtual this year. When the That Takes the Cake show was canceled in February due to the pandemic, I knew my show had to go on, and...

Mark your calendars, cookiers! I’ve decided the show must go on! My cookie art competition couldn’t take place as usual in February at...

YES!!! It’s time! Early Bird reg for The Cake and Cookie's “One Sweet Christmas” event is now open to everyone...

Woo hoo! I've got a first-of-its-kind cookie event to share with you, and, if you jump on the waitlist now, you'll be at the top of the list for VIP status and other special perks...

My apologies, it's now been more than few weeks since the results of my 2020 cookie art competition at That Takes the Cake Show were announced! But, promptly on the heels of that show came CookieCon and then...

Continuing in my tradition of years past, I am about to share, all in one place, ALL of the CookieCon 2020 Sugar Show winners! How fab is that?! First, a huge thanks to Karen and Mike Summers, CookieCon founders and organizers extraordinaire, for helping to make this post happen. Each year, like clockwork, while they're still reeling in the aftermath of the show, they...

Hi, all! I wanted to take a moment to specially thank our Gold Sponsors who stepped up to the highest of levels to support Julia M. Usher's Cookie Art Competition™ at That Takes the Cake Show in Austin, February 22-23, 2020...