For the Love of Cookies

Florals

FLORAL NEEDLEPOINT COOKIE

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March 22, 2022

Yesterday I shared with you a few needlepoint cookies that rely on a grid made using a silicone mold. Today, as promised, I show you a needlepoint production made – as I like to call it – without anesthesia. I was quite scared to go for it, but so glad…
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Valentine’s Day

TUNDE’S NEEDLEPOINT COOKIES, TWO WAYS

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March 21, 2022

Needlepoint cookies are probably one of the most challenging to make, however, Tunde (from Tunde’s Creations) shared a reasonably easy method to approach this technique. The secret is to use sugar veil lace mats as the starting point. Her hour-long tutorial taught how to make a few heart-shaped designs with…
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Special Holidays

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!

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March 17, 2022

“May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go.” This year I was not able to indulge in baking St. Patrick’s cookies, in part because we were away on a trip. But I could not resist making a small batch, inspired by a…
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Animals

BEAR WITH ME

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March 13, 2022

For a non-native speaker of English, some expressions can be quite amusing. Bear with me is definitely one that makes me smile because no matter how hard I try to avoid it, the image of a teddy bear jumps in my mind. Playful and cute. So, bear with me as…
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Animals, Spring

FOUR LITTLE CHICKS

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March 10, 2022

Every Tuesday and Friday at noon (Central Time), Marlyn and Haniela go live on Facebook and spend one hour decorating cookies, explaining techniques, and chit-chatting about all things sweet. Last month they came up with a very cool idea: have viewers participate decorating cookies at the same time. Of course,…
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Easter, Florals

MONTREAL CONFECTIONS & PYOC

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March 7, 2022

If you are a cookie baker, I am sure you are familiar with the acronym PYOC: Paint Your Own Cookies. But what you may or may not know, is that the person who originally invented those was Marlyn, from Montreal Confections. Nowadays, many bakers sell kits to make them, others…
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Easter

FROM CHRISTMAS TO SPRING

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March 3, 2022

Back in January I shared my first cookie “challenge”, making a pizza box concoction after Marlyn suggested a basic motif as a starting point. You can see my homework here. Once again, Marlyn proposed a little cookie challenge to make us work on creativity. The task was to use a…
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Custom Designed

FOR THE LOVE OF UKRAINE

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February 28, 2022

I don’t know what it is like to wake up to the sound of bombs. To be forced to say goodbye to a husband, a father, a brother, and flee with a suitcase and kids. Or to stay and face the unthinkable. From far away I admire the courage of…
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Easter

EGGSCELLENT EGG HUNT: ONLINE CLASS WITH AMY

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February 24, 2022

Today I share the outcome of yet another zoom event organized by Amy, from Seriously Sweet at Davis St… This time the whole set was Easter-inspired, and I am absolutely smitten by this collection… Several different techniques were used to make them. We finished the six cookies in under 2…
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Animals, Cookie Compositions, Winter

CARDINALS IN A TREE: A PIZZA BOX SET

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February 21, 2022

Marlyn first shared this tutorial last August in her Patreon site (you can also watch a simplified version here). At the time I felt a bit intimidated by all the details, and kept postponing the making of it. I said to myself “maybe I can do it before the end…
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