Fall Cookie-A-Thon 2024 Instructors

Amy Hicks

Amy is a self-taught sugar artist and the owner of the Seriously Sweet Bakery. She is the founder of the Facebook group “Cookie Snack Attack with Seriously Sweet”, where she’s giving back to the cookie community through teaching.

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Angela Watkins

Angela has a real passion for baking, teaching about the science behind ingredients, and creating new recipes to share with others. With over 18 years of experience in the baking industry, she loves sharing her knowledge and helping others become better bakers.

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Becky Norton

Becky is the owner of 2B's Cookies, specializing in sugar art and high-resolution embossing (featured on Arty McGoo, Icing Images, and Cookie-A-Thon). She competed on Food Network's 2023 Holiday Wars and has received four awards from CookieCon. Her work is also featured in Cake Collaborators Magazine.

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Celia Strickland

Celia is a retired teacher who is pursuing her love for design. She enjoys designing cookie cutters and stencils, which she shares through her online store, Sweets from the Soul (link below), in addition to her virtual cookie classes.

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Crystal Perez

Crystal Perez is the owner and operator of Edible Art Studios Cookie Co. She has been baking for as long as she can remember and started her business over 10 years ago. Crystal loves sharing her passion for edible art with everyone!

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Donna Armstrong

Donna has been decorating cookies for 10 years. Previously, she was a decorative painter. One day, she saw some decorated cookies online. She thought, "Wow! I love that!" So the painting stopped and she started a cookie business called, The Flour Garden.

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Donna Rorabaugh

During the work day, Donna can be found on the assembly plant floor, helping improve productivity. At Christmas time, she turns to a new type of production - gingerbread houses! An award-winning artist, she's here to share some of her techniques.

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Elizabeth Deveraux

Elizabeth's passion for art and teaching has led to the opening of Frosting Artist Academy, an online learning resource focused on teaching cookiers how to create and use stencils to decorate stunning, edible masterpieces!

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Elizabeth Rodriguez

Ellie is the owner of Ellie's Rico Dulces LLC located in Ocala, FL. She has been decorating cookies for about 4 years. Ellie loves creating special memories through her cookies and enjoys challenging herself with new techniques.

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Fabiola Romano

Fabiola has been decorating sugar cookies for several years, taking the time to learn and practice her decorating skills, and eventually developing her own recipes. After teaching locally, she is now an online instructor and enjoys it very much.

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Ingeborg Ten Oever

Ingeborg loves everything cookie, from creating new cookie cutters using new technologies to decorating the cookies by hand. She owns a small cookie business based in the Netherlands and ships cookie tools worldwide through her Etsy shop.

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Lisa Toohey

Lisa is the owner of Cake Expressions by Lisa. As a pastry chef and cake instructor, she loves sharing her knowledge and creating new techniques for cakes and cookies. Teaching brings her joy, and she is excited to share her tutorials with you!

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Lisel Powell

Lisel took her first cookie class in 2012 and was instantly obsessed! Since then, she has won several decorating competitions and served as an instructor at CookieCon and Cookie-A-Thon. She loves the art of cookie decorating and enjoys sharing that passion with others.

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Mackenzie Koch

Mackenzie is the owner and creative force behind RueBea's Sweet Treats. After experiencing a whirlwind of success, she began coaching other cookie artists. Mackenzie is passionate about teaching others how to kickstart their own successful cottage bakery.

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Nancy Westfall

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Nancy is the creator of The Colorful Cookie, The Colorful Cookie Club, Procreate Fast Track Online Course, and the founder/host 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!

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Samantha Haney

Samantha is a self-taught baker and the driving force behind The Cookie Cottage LLC, which started in 2014. Despite recovering from several hand, arm, and back surgeries, her focus remains on sharing and teaching, while also growing as a creator and as a child of God.

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Saskia Steinegger

Saskia is the face behind The Cookie Artista. She loves painting on cookies and is always looking to find techniques that make it fun, easy, and quick. Saskia loves bringing people together in her classes to share the joy of creating edible art on cookies.

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Silvia Zolfanelli

Silvia learned about baking at a young age, growing up in her grandfather's bakery in Italy. She got into cookie decorating to impress her kids at Christmas but quickly developed a passion for these cute and edible little pieces of art.

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Stacey Barr

Stacey, the Edible Tech Guru and owner of Stacey’s Custom Cakes, wants to help you Up Your Technical Game! An unapologetic lifelong geek, his unique (and sometimes odd) approaches to decorating are informed by his love for using technology in new ways.

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Susan Backman

Sue, with Sugar Loo's, is a self-taught home baker with a passion for baking and teaching. She loves to share her knowledge and demonstrate how-to techniques that other bakers can use. Baking is her love language :)

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Susan Trianos

Susan has been obsessed with all things sugar since she was a young girl. Her career spans over 36 years, beginning with decorating cookies! She has owned her own bakery, worked in R&D, marketing, sales, and teaching within this field.

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Susie Kemp

Susie is the owner of Dr. Susie Sweets. She is a home baker who bakes as a side gig. She started sharing "cookie joy" in 2020. Susie bakes and decorates custom sugar cookies, teaches classes, and recently opened an online cookie cutter shop.

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Tammy Youngerwood

Tammy is the creator of Jerusalem Cake Design. Originally from Canada, Tammy launched her custom cake and cookie business in Israel over 10 years ago. She has a passion for design, creative baking, and a weak spot for cinnamon buns.

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Teri Lewis

Teri launched Tweets...Cookie Connection in 2012, where the cookie became her canvas. Her passion for whimsical design, painting, doodling, and sharing the sparkle with cookies became her calling. Teri is also the creator of Tweets Smudge-Proof Pens.

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Viviana Blandon

Viviana is the proud owner of Vivis Cakes n’ Treats. With a lifelong passion for art, she turned that creativity into edible works of art 15 years ago.

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