With one week 'til the big day, it's still all about Christmas cookies here on Cookie Connection! If you're like me - with all of your shopping and baking left to do - then you're in luck, because this week's Spotlight has plenty of ideas for both...
Hi, all! SURPRISE! It's me, Julia, not your usual lovely Christine. Since it's the holiday season and the time for giving, I wanted to give our hardworking contributors a crack at a challenge for a change. So, since most of them entered this time, I have flown solo through this recap...
Deck the halls with bowls of cookies, fa la la la la, la la la la! See the blazing oven before us, fa la la la la, la la la la! Oops, wrong lyrics! What can I say, all of the amazing holiday cookies posted this past week have gotten me way into the yuletide baking spirit!
It used to be, not long ago, that cookiers hopped from Halloween to Christmas, bypassing turkeys, pilgrims, and all other Thanksgiving themes without skipping a beat. But with the explosive interest in cookie decorating as of late, Cookie...
Phew! I have no idea how Thanksgiving crept up on us as fast as it did, but I just ordered my bird and I'm already planning all of the fixin's to go along with it! It's currently a toss up between pumpkin- and pecan pie-flavored cookies for...
As I promised last night, I'm back with a belated, but much anticipated Saturday Spotlight: the grand reveal of the 2015 Cake Masters Magazine Cookie Award winner! (Some of you may have already caught the official Cake Masters reveal on...
So as CookieCon was winding down at the end of September, another esteemed sugar show was just ramping up some 1,200 miles away in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yes, it was none other than the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show (aka OSSAS), the brainchild of...
It's about that time, folks, and so naturally we've been inundated with sp-ookies this past week. (BTW, "sp-ookies" is short for spooky cookies, a term conjured up after imbibing too much witches' brew when writing this post. ) While...
Well, hello, cookie people! I know it has been an extremely busy time in the cookie world - from back-to-school to CookieCon, to the GO BO Foundation Bake Sale, to the beginning of the holiday baking season . . . And so, I am extra appreciative that...
Hi, all! I'm back with our "usual" Spotlight after a whirlwind week of triaging the vast amount of CookieCon coverage generated by our talented team of correspondents ! Congrats again to Barb Florin, Beverly Parker, Jen Wagman, and...
Here in Missouri this past week, the weather vascillated between summer and fall, apparently not able to make up its mind. But as of this morn, I can happily declare that all of that wishy-washiness is gone and autumn is definitively here! My black...
Well, I wouldn't have guessed it, but after a week of being on vacation with nary a cookie in sight, I was overjoyed to return to work (aka Cookie Connection ) on Wednesday, and to be inundated with all of your fabulous creations! I couldn't...
With the #BaketoDefeatALS campaign rapidly coming to a close, I wanted to use our final Spotlight of the month to highlight some notable contributions that posted this past week! But first . . . if you're not familiar with the campaign, it has...
Holy cow! Where DID the summer go? Before you know it, it will be time to take out those Christmas cutters and start using them for (gulp) Christmas cookies! Before I get on with announcing the winner of Practice Bakes Perfect Challenge #11,...
Hi, I'm back as promised this week with another Spotlight on cookiers who have risen to the Bake to Defeat ALS challenge that is ongoing through the month of August! As a reminder, this challenge has been spearheaded by Anita Cadonau-Huseby...
