Google up ‘how to pack cookies for shipping’ and you’ll discover a number of posts written on this incredibly fascinating subject. More to the point, you’ll discover in each post a different point of view on what is the best…
Read more →The simplest ideas, methods or techniques, are those that I assume the immediate world already knows, so I don’t think to post them. I couldn’t have been proven more wrong than when I posted my spray bottle technique. So, it…
Read more →When I first began decorating cookies many years ago, I knew absolutely nothing about absolutely everything involved in this endeavor. Believe it or not, I actually thought in order to draw something, all you had to do was conjure up…
Read more →Stage 1: The convergence of flour, sugar, butter, salt, baking powder and vanilla extract. Stage 2: Beginning to take on a recognizable form. Stage 3: After 8 hours of rest. Stage 4: First details. Stage 5: Second round of…
Read more →When my client emailed me about the baby shower she was hosting for her daughter, my brain immediately pulled up buttery yellow and jadeite (aka Martha) green from my brain’s file of ‘baby & infant colors’ I love for just such occasions….
Read more →Whether or not we know it, all of us cookie people have style. Style is what differentiates us from one another. It’s not what makes us better or worse, but unique, in a recognizeable way. How often have you looked at a single cookie…
Read more →Long ago, before I could ever imagine opening my own little cookie business, I would sit in front of my computer screen and look at pictures of some the most beautifully decorated cookies in the world. These charming little decked out confections that,…
Read more →This is it! I’m donning my ambassadorial sash and making my way down to St. Petersburg, Florida for Mason Jar Cookie’s debut on HSN! Check your local listing for the channel number in your area, but I can tell you now that…
Read more →Who knew so much could be written/discussed/argued about something with essentially three ingredients? I’ve been making pizza for years now, always experimenting with different techniques and recipes in pursuit of pizza perfection. A few years ago, Jim Lahey’s no-knead pizza…
Read more →I think by now it’s pretty clear that I love being in the kitchen, playing around with ideas that I can translate into cookies. And, I think it’s also pretty clear, that when ‘miked up’ and given a cue to look…
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