Cookie-A-Thon Artists
Amy Hicks
“Maddie Laine” Spring Gnome
Amy is the owner of the boutique bakery, Seriously Sweet, and the founder of the Facebook group Cookie Snack Attack with Seriously Sweet, where she shares two free cookie tutorials weekly, along with product reviews, guest instructors & general cookie shenanigans.
Andrea Walters
Springtime Rabbit
What do you get when you take one slightly obsessive, artistic and highly practical stay-at-home mom and combine her with the world of cookie dough, icing and endless design possibilities? Andrea is the whirlwind behind the brand of Andy Kay’s Cookies. She teaches cookie workshops across the country. She specializes in realistic sugar flowers and techniques that make cookies stand out.
Belinda Cooley
Mother's Day + Easter Cookie Box
Belinda is the owner and cookie artist of B’s Cookie Basket. She's been decorating cookies for over three years. But her love for baking started when she was a teenager. Persistence, and passion are what drives her and you can't forget the sense of humor... or you'll go crazy.
Bev Hansen
3D Box of Popcorn with Popcorn Flavored Cookies + Fondant
Classically-trained pastry chef Bev has been around sugar art her whole life. Her passion started as a child in her mom's bakery, but it took a walk around the world to discover baking is her happiest place. Now Bev is a successful bakery owner herself.
Celia Strickland
Fondant Embossing for Wedding and Baby Cookies
Celia is a soon to be retired teacher who needed something fun to fill her time. Sweets from the Soul grew out of a love of pretty things. Cookies are no exception! Celia has a full line of stencils and cutters to make beautiful cookies for any occasion.
Christine DiGiorgio
Oui, Paris!
As a decorator for 20+ years, Christine like to work smarter, not harder. She started making stencils 4 years & continues to add new designs and products to her shop including the Genie line from Creative Cookier. Making it easier to decorate beautiful cookies!
Frescia Malone
Watercolor Butterflies
Frescia is the face behind Sweet Treat Therapy. Originally from Peru, Spanish is her first language. Frescia never baked or knew much about it, but now can't imagine a life without cookies! Sweet Treat Therapy is not only a very sucessful business, but is now her passion.
Ingeborg ten Oever
Floral Spring World
Five years ago, Ingeborg started decorating cookies for her two girls, friends, and family. Ingeborg loves all things cookie and has developed her hobby into a small business based in the Netherlands. Ingeborg loves to design cookie cutters, stencils and scribe tools!
Jennifer Moshier
3D Easter Cookie Display
Jennifer went to school for graphic design, but her career started to turn into developing/programming. While she loves what she does, she still has a love for her art. So, she started decorating cakes and cookies as her artistic outlet.
Kristin Sexton
Fuzzy Bunny
Kristin is a self taught cookie artist from Northport, Alabama. She absolutely loves sharing the joy that cookies brings into her life with others. Kristin finds teaching to be the most rewarding part of the journey. Kristin gained courage to teach through Cookie-A-Thon!
Laura Olinde
No Pico? No Problem!
Laura is a retired court reporter. For Laura, creating cookies is more of a hobby than a business. She started out doing chocolate suckers over 25 years ago, and it has morphed over the years. She switched over to the cookie world about 5 years ago.
Lauren Jacobs
Easter Bunny Cookie - Grand Millennial Style
Lauren is "The Cheerful Baker". She is an art teacher turned cookie artist. Her love is creating cookie cutters for her Cheerful Cutters Etsy shop and teaching cookie decorating classes. She loves God, her family, and being creative!
Lisel Powell
3D Easter Basket
10 years ago Lisel took her first decorated cookie class and was immediately obsessed! She remains primarily a hobbyist but has branched out to teaching. She recently taught at CookieCon. Her happy place is making cookies that have lots of details and dimension (the more piping, the better).
Nancy Westfall
How to Emboss Parchment Paper
Nancy is the creator of The Colorful Cookie, The Colorful Cookie Club, and the founder of Cookie-A-Thon. Nancy has a passion for learning new things and teaching cookiers how to design cookie stencils and cookie cutters. She loves being a part of the cookie community!
Priscilla
Nemes
Bunny Ears Pillow
A oncology nurse by day and baker of cakes and cookies by evening and weekends. She previously owned a small cake and cookie business. She moved to a new city where she began to decorate cookies. Her cake decorating skills came in handy for this!
Sam Opdenbosch
Fiesta- Ruffles, Tranfers & More
Sam is a recent winner of Food Network’s Christmas Cookie Challenge with her playful 3d snowman. What started as a family cookie tradition led to a successful cookie business - Sam's Cookie Company. Sam shares her knowledge of cookie decorating and designing and 3d printing in Sam's Cookie University.
Shannon Lescarini
Bunny Rose
Shannon has been baking for over 20 years and opened her business, Whisk Confections in 2012. She began decorating sugar cookies in 2018 and loves turning her buttercream skills into art. Shannon says it has been a fun journey taking her buttercream cake skills to little bites.
Sharon Resch and Julie Patterson
Creating Fast, Easy, and Fun Packaging Using Printables and SVG Cut Files
Sharon is the owner of Stencil Expressions. She and Julie are besties who live 1,500 miles apart but still manage to spend SCADS of time dreaming up fun, new ways to do all things cookies, crafts, stencils, packaging and more.
Susan Trianos
Cookie Platters with What You've Got
Susan is the owner of Learn to Cake. Although she is known more in the cake world, she is getting back to where she once started…Cookies! Way back in 1987, she led a team of cookie decorators at a large bakery wholesaler. She designed, dipped, flooded and decorated her way through racks of cookies each day for Disney, Major Department Stores, and the Toronto Zoo, just to name a few.
