Cookie-A-Thon Instructors
April James
How to Host a Cookie Class
April is the founder of Zhuzh Bakery. She opened a custom cookie studio in 2020, where she found her passion for teaching. She even convinced her hubby to leave his 27 year career to join her cookie shenanigans full time! #thepopsandyayashow
Ash Jorgensen
Winter Snowglobe: Intro to Painting with Edible Dusts
Ash is the creator & lead artist of Cookie Curio, a digital art gallery chronicling her journey into self-taught baking & sugar cookie decorating, as well as a place to submit requests for complimentary custom cookie consultations & order inquiries.
Barbara Berube
Whimsical Christmas Trees
I'm Barb, owner of Bebe's Bakes. I have baked all my life with my grandmother, but in 2017 I realized the power of a cookie and I never looked back. I love spreading joy to others through my specialty treats and the classes that I teach. Let's bake!
Barbara Poirrier
How the Leopard changed his spots!
Barbara was raised in NE Alabama and married to a Cajun from SE Louisiana. They have 3 children and 3 grandchildren. In 2013, her oldest daughter asked meher to do an engagement ring cookie she saw in a Brides magazine. That's how this all started.
Bev Hansen
3D Cookie Cornucopia Place Cards
When Bev decided that law school wasn’t for her, She earned her Baking & Pastry Arts degree, then opened Bev’s Custom Bakery.
Her happiest place is creating 3D cookies, developing cookie flavors (She has over 200!), and teaching cookie decorating classes!
Celia Strickland
Creative Holiday Platters and Gifts
Celia is the owner of Sweets from the Soul LLC. As a retired educator, creativity is engrained in her soul. She enjoys designing and making cutters, embossers, and stencils for creating beautifully baked works of art to be shared with others.
Erin Dougal, Shelly Nunnally, Sam Opdenbosch, Wendy Alba
Cookie Better during the Holidays
The Cookie Better team has spent years learning and growing their businesses, and they want to share the tools to help you succeed and get results greater than you ever thought possible. They have over 35 years combined experience in the cookie industry, and they love it!
Cookiecad
Cookie Cutter Design
Jennifer Harding Hill of GŪD Sugar is a self taught sugar magic maker. She loves easy to use Cookiecad to make cookie cutters. As a life long learner of all the things, she loves to share her unique perspective with anyone that shows up. She is fearless while creating and believes if it makes you feel, she nailed it.
Cynthia Raven, Sandra Segers, & Shari Weyrauch
Cookies for Lunch - The Podcast
This group is made up of 3 local Kansas City women, who have a unique approach to their businesses – all related to cookies, but in different ways, and each brings a different perspective to the table. Our hope is to share tips, ideas, lessons learned, and discuss topics relative to the cookie world.
Deborah Coughlin
Little Blue Edible Food Printer Reduce Decorating Time & Increase Profits
Debbie Coughlin founded Icing Images in 1999. Considered the expert in the Edible Printing Industry, Both Debbie, & Icing Images has won numerous awards for products that exceed industry demands with excellent quality, high value, & the best service.
Dieter Grotheer
Cookie Cutter from Your Own Design
LuvTwoCreate was started by Tracey Grotheer who found a new passion for making sugar cookies. Once retired, Dieter joined her in the venture and now 3D Prints cutters and Bakes Cookies. It is a perfect match!
Donna Garland
Hand Painted Christmas Tree
Donna has always considered herself artistic. Several years ago while watching a holiday cookie competition on tv, she began to wonder if her artistic ability would translate to cookies. She gave it a whirl and found a new love...where art meets sweets!
Donna Rorabaugh
Taking your gingerbread house to the next level with texture and shaping.
During the work day, Donna can be found on the assembly plant floor, helping improve productivity. But at Christmas, she turns to a new new type of production - gingerbread houses. An award winning artist, she's here to share some of her techniques.
Elke Hoelzle
White Christmas Village Cookies
Elke is the President of the Brazilian Society of Cookie Artists, a non-profit organization that helps low income people and other artists to make and sell decorated cookies. She also has an YouTube Channel and an online decorating cookie school.
Fawn Giese
How To Make & Use Food-Safe Christmas Cookie Stencils With Ikonart
Fawn is the Creative Director for Ikonart. She has a passion for creating and teaching Ikonart crafters how to create. You can find Fawn on all Ikonart's social media channels showcasing how easy it is to turn your own artwork into Ikonart stencils.
Frescia Malone
Charcuterie Board for the Holidays
Frescia is the face behind Sweet Treat Therapy.
What started as a hobby has become a business.
She started as an electrical engineer mom who wanted to make treats for her kids. Now she runs her cookie business and teach classes.
Ingeborg ten Oever
3D Canal (or candle) Houses with 'Real' Windows
Ingeborg is the founder of Bee's Cookie Jar. She loves to create beautiful, personal and delicious cookies for all kinds of occasions. She also loves designing cookie cutters and other tools. She has a passion for all things creative with cookies.
Janet Johnson
Introducing the New Cookie Artist Directory
Janet is the creator of the brand new, online Cookie Artist Directory. Janet has had a long career in marketing and web design. Her love of cookies led to the idea of using her skills to help cookiers get connected with local customers.
Jennifer Moshier
Winter Scene Gingerbread Ornaments - 2D Ornaments with royal icing details
Jennifer is a web developer by day and a sugar artist by night. She has a graphic design degree and when she started programming instead of designing she needed to find an outlet for her art.
Jill Erickson
Learn to make Royal Icing Flowers
A few years ago Jill created Baked by Jilliebean on Facebook, you’ll see that she loves to decorate sugar cookies but also enjoys making macarons and floral cupcakes. Jill can’t wait to share with you how she makes her floral cookies!
Kim Greer
Holiday Charcookerie Board
After spending eight nights decorating 15 turkeys for family, Kim was asking herself "how could this be fun"? A week later, Kim was struck by an adorable cookie cutter portraying a red pickup truck hauling a Christmas tree, and the rest is history.
Laura Moffat
Stencils... not just for cookies.
Laura is the creative force behind Little Miss Moffat Cookies and LMM Stencil Studio.
She has been decorating cookies for over 8 years and has been an elective and core instructor at CookieCon. She began designing and creating stencils 6 years ago.
Laura Saporiti
Christmas Rose Kiss Cookies
Laura is an Italy based International pastry chef and cake & cookie artist, with a past as Historian of art, who loves to travel the world teaching her passion, on a mission to raise the professional consciousness of the art of decorating.
Laurie Collins & Susan Ward
Enhance Your Cookies with Edible Papers!
Laurie one half of the duo behind Whisk Confection is an award-winning cake artist with a passion for sharing with others. Susan is an amazing cookie artist and loves to teach cookiers. Together they are a creative team dedicated to inspiring others.
Lisel Powell
Setting your table with cookies! + Edible napkin rings
Lisel has been decorating cookies for eleven years, and loves playing with texture and dimension. What started as just something fun to do for her kids' birthdays quickly became an obsession that she loves sharing with those eager to learn cookie art.
Maxine Lauer
Cookie Cutter Flip - Santa Platter
At the urging of her son, Maxine turned her passion for baking into her business, Chips Galore Cookies and More, in 2015. She loves learning new techniques, making new cookie friends, and seeing the joy on peoples faces when they see their cookies.
Megan Bowers
Vintage Glass Ornaments
Three Melons began in March 2017 as a creative outlet as a stay-at-home mom. Megan's been featured in Sweet & Saucy Living Magazine & recently won third place in Julia M. Usher’s Cookie Art Competition (2D). She works out of her home studio.
Nancy Westfall
Procreate Fast Track for Cookiers
Nancy is the creator of The Colorful Cookie, The Colorful Cookie Club and Procreate Fast Track Online Courses, 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!
Pamela Yochum
"Totally Turkeys" Cookie Class
In 2016, Pamela challenged herself to do 1 cookie a day for a year. She watched lots of videos online of her favorite cookie artists on YouTube. She just stuck with it! And within a year and a half, she had a full-time thriving cookie business - Grammy Pammy Sweetery! You can do it too!
Priscilla
Nemes
Fall Holiday pillows
Baking for stress relief and therapy. Priscilla is a nurse working in Oncology software by day, and baking in evenings and weekends. Cookie cutter collector as well- if you have them they should be used!
Rebecca Sheer
Mixed Medium Holiday Poinsettia Bough
After 20 years in the hospitality industry, Rebecca took her love of all things sugar and Sheer Celebrations was born. She has been teaching sugar arts for the last 7 years & loves to help others achieve their sugar dreams & perfect their skills.
Sam Opdenbosch
Coming Home for Christmas - Platter Tutorial
Sam is a recent winner of Food Network’s Christmas Cookie Challenge. She is a licensed home baker and owner of Sam’s Cookie Company in Marietta, GA. Sam teaches cookiers to model their own cookie cutters in Fusion 360™ and print them on a 3d printer.
Susan Trianos
Projecting Images - A Whole New Way
Susan has been decorating cookies for 34 years, and shares her vast knowledge of the industry through her school, Learn to Cake and Cookie. She has worked in sales, teaching at a college, product development, and ran the test kitchen for Pillsbury.
Teri Lewis
Holiday Doodling with Markers and Paints
Teri's passion for whimsical design, painting, doodling and sharing-the-sparkle in life, keeps her committed to creating/suppling the finest smudge-proof pens to Sugar Artists around the Globe for doodling painting and embellishing on cookies.
Veronica RebataLanda
Knitted Holiday Sweater with Royal Icing Transfers
Vero is a “traveling cookier” and currently lives in France with her family. She graduated with a doctoral degree in Geotechnical Engineering but switched to baking, her childhood passion, after her first boy was born.
Wendy Alba
Festive Holiday Wreath Platter
Wendy has always had a sweet tooth! She loves business and creating and one day these three collided to become Wendy’s Cookie Studio, where she bakes and creates to her heart’s content.
Wendy lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and five kids!
