This year's Sugar Show at CookieCon offered the following categories into which cookie entries could be submitted: Back to School, Wildlife, Super Heroes and Comic Books (a nod to Comic-Con, going on the same weekend, across the street...

Day 3 (Friday) at CookieCon was the day of seminars. There were eight pre-defined groups and seven instructors. A schedule was crafted such that each instructor gave her seminar eight times, with a circulating audience. It was a challenge...

Day 2 started out with the second session of Team Cookie’s (Rebecca Weld, The Cookie Architect; Kari Arroyo, Yankee Girl Yummies; and Melissa Joy Lacasse, Melissa Joy Cookies) design seminar. We walked in to find the scene above laid out on the tables...

Day 1 at CookieCon - and what a full day! I started out this morning in Oakland (California) and then flew to Salt Lake City. The trip was not without incident, as I had left one small box at home - a key component of one of my Sugar Show entries!...