Cookie-A-Thon Instructors

Aimee Hines 

Aimee has been baking since a very young age. She began as a cake decorator then learned skills for small desserts, cookies and macarons. She has since been featured for her work in American Cake Decorating, Food Network and WJZ-TV|CBS News Stations.

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Amy Hicks 

Amy is a self-taught sugar artist, the owner of the Seriously Sweet bakery, and 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

 As someone with multiple food allergies, Angela understands the stress that allergy baking can cause for others. She is passionate about helping others learn how it can be done safely and sharing her baking knowledge with the cookie community. 

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Annette Conrad

Annette is an event planning expert with two decades of experience turned full-time baker & experiential virtual instructor.  Specializes in custom design, personalized cookie decorating kits, unique corporate gifts and memorable virtual experiences.

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April Berry

After 20 years of experience in the operating room, April traded scalpels for cookie cutters and realized that a lot of her skills she used in the OR translated to the kitchen.  Now she teaches others the skills she learned and newly discovered.

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Ash Jorgensen

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.

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Barbara Berube

Barb is the owner/baker of Bebe’s Bakes. She has always had a love for baking. Cookies found Barb in 2017 with online tutorials and books. She tried it and fell completely in love. Now she loves sharing her passion with others in her community. 

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Becky Norton 

One month prior to the Covid outbreak Becky had the opportunity to take a 4 hour cookie decorating class for beginners and absolutely loved it. She loves trying new techniques, products, and sharing what she has learned. 

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Belinda Cooley 

Belinda began her business in 2018 after she took a cookie decorating class.  She has taught at 3 cookie cons and also teaches cookie decorating classes. Catch her airbrushing elective this May in Ohio!  She makes her own stencils too!

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Bev Hansen 

Self-dubbed a "flavor nerd," Bev is a classically-trained pastry chef specializing in: flavor development (220 and counting), custom sugar vehicle creations of all kinds, and truly 3D cookies.

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Catherine Allen

Catherine is a wife, mother of three, and now grandma (GiGi) of one. Her hobby of making hand decorated cookies started in 1999 when her oldest child was in Kindergarten. She's an avid runner and loves strong coffee, chocolate and red wine! 

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Celia Strickland 

Celia Strickland is the owner and designer behind Sweets from the Soul. She enjoys designing and creating the tools and teaching resources to make beautiful treats for others.  She and her husband thank God for the opportunity to work with you!

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Charleigh, Knoah, & Karter Battle 

Charleigh, Knoah, Karter, are siblings who love baking. They specialize in allergy friendly cookies that are dairy, gluten, soy, nut, and egg free.

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Crystal Richardson 

Crystal is the host of the all-inclusive, affordable Cookie Getaway. 3 days of jam-packed, cookie fun! In wonderful Kissimmee Florida!

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Deborah Coughlin

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.

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Dee Hall 

Dee has been an avid baker most of her life & after taking some online classes during COVID she became obsessed with decorating cookies. She is the owner of Wonderland Cutters, an online cookie cutter and supply shop. 

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Diane Mercado 

Diane has been baking with her dad since she was five years old.  A childhood hobby eventually turned into a small storefront in Fairfield, Connecticut.  Her corporate job was coming to an end so no better time to follow her childhood dream. 

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Donna Garland 

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!

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Donna Rorabaugh 

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.

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Elizabeth Rodriguez 

Ellie is a wife, mom, worshiper with a full time job and a passion for what she gets to do from her kitchen; baking. 

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Elke Hoelzle 

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.

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Fabiola Romano 

Fabiola is the person behind The Fabulous Cookies. She started decorating cookies a few years ago after attending CookieCon in Salt Lake City. She enjoys the decorating process and she loves to see people’s reactions when they see their treats.

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Frescia Malone 

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.

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Harriet Agen 

Harriet is a home baker, whose clients are mostly family and friends. She has been a cookier for 5 years. Through this hobby, Harriet gets to meet lots of new people and make many new friends.

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Ingeborg ten Oever 

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. 

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Jamie Lee 

Jamie is a business leader that needs a creative outlook beyond the corporate world. Sharing the love of sugar cookies with others has been that fun outlet. Come follow along with my journey and let's be friends! 

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Janet Johnson

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.

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Jennifer Hill 

Jennifer is a self taught magic maker with sugar. As a life long learner of all the things, she teaches and shares her unique perspective with anyone that shows up. She is fearless while creating and believes if it makes you feel, she nailed it.

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Jennifer Moshier 

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.

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Jessica Kollatz 

Jessica is the owner and cookie mastermind behind Boardwalk Cookie Co. She needed an outlet after her daughter was born and decided to give cookie decorating a try. She fell in love with it! She balances working full time and 2 beautiful kiddos while baking!

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Jonathan Brandel 

Jonathan is the creator of Brandel Baked Goods, a small town home based bakery with grand desserts. It all started as a way to make extra money before his first child was born and has led to so much more. He has also worked with Icing Smiles.

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Joni Malfitano 

Joni retired in 2019 and both of her daughters were out on their own. She needed a hobby. She's always loved decorated cookies from afar. She is a hobby baker and bakes for friends & family.

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Julia Usher 

Most recognized for her pioneering work in 3-D cookies, Julia has received numerous awards for her art and innovation over the years, including Cake Masters Cookie Icon, EAGAA US and International Sugar Artist of the Year, and OSSAS Medal of Honor.

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Kelli Basher 

Kelli took cake decorating classes in the spring of 2000, and became a Wilton Method Instructor that year as she loves teaching others. She loves learning new things and sharing her passion for decorating with others.  

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Lara Parodi 

Lara is a Brazilian cookier that enjoy making cookies, with her IT background she designed the Sweet Bite APP that helps you to organize your stuff. Soon they will have more features on the app that will help you even more.  

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Latisha Soucek

LaTisha is a self-taught baker who received a cake carrier about 15 years ago and fell in love with baking, bringing joy to others through her beautiful designs and seeing someone's face light up when they take a bite of something she's made with love. 

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Laura Saporiti

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.

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Lauren Jacobs

Lauren is the cookie artist behind The Cheerful Baker and Cheerful Cutters cookie cutter shop. She is an artist turned baker whose canvas has become the cookie. She loves Jesus and her family and anything creative.   

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Lisa He 

Lisa is a biotech professional turned small business owner. She's been decorating cookies since 2011 and now manages Borderlands Bakery along with My Custom Bakes, a software tool for bakers to manage their orders and workflow.

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Lisel Powell

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. 

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Marguerite Redman 

For over 20+ years, Marguerite has been baking and decorating cookies for family and friends and was known as the Cookie Artist in her small town. In addition to baking, she sells cookie cutters and supplies online at The Cookie Artist Studio.

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Mary Bogar 

Mary is the owner of Fat Momma's Confections. She specializes in custom decorated cookies. After finding decorated cookies online, She knew that's what she wanted to do! Best decision she could have ever made!  

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Maxine Lauer

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.  

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Megan Bowers

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.

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Mitzi Torgersen 

Most days you can find Mitzi exploring Utah with her husband and four little boys. She’s owns @TheHappyFlavor, runs an online community @The_Cookiers and is the founder and host of the @WorldCookieSummit

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Nancy Cross

Nancy is the owner/artist of Sweet Traditions custom cake and cookie studio in Sperry, Oklahoma. She loves mixing her loves of art and baking together to create something truly unique.   

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Nancy Westfall 

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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!

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Natalie Bonczek

LaNatalie is a CPA by day and a hobby baker by night (and weekends). As a home based baker, she credits her love of creating tasty & beautiful treats to her mom, who baked and decorated every birthday cake for her & her sister growing up.

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Nikki Robinson 

 Nikki is the owner of Blissful Bakes. She's always had a love of art and found the love of baking as an adult. While on the hunt for different bakes to try, she found the world of cookie decorating & was able to combine both art & baking into one!

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Pamela Yochum

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!

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Paulina Perez Ordonez

Paulina is a graphic designer and self-taught baker in México. Started her baking journey with cakes, but switched to decorated cookies as her main product. She loves teaching cookie decorating and creating content with tips and tricks for new cookiers.

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Priscilla
Nemes

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 Liotta

Rebecca's hobby turned into a dream come true when she opened her shop, Three T Baker's. Her business is now a full time brick and mortar shop in the suburb's of Kansas City. Rebecca's shop was able to survive the pandemic through the support of fans both local and afar!  

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Rebecca Sheer

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.

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Sam Opdenbosch

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. 

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Sangeeta Shah

Sangeeta has been Wilton Instructor and proudly the 1st Canadian to receive a stellar Performance award! Sangeeta teaches gum paste and air dry clay flowers online and hands on (pre Covid-19). She loves 3D printing and crafting.  

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Sarah Truscott

Growing up with a love of art and baking, Sarah was thrilled to discover that her two favorite hobbies were combined in cookie decorating. She is the face behind The Fireside Confectionery and has a heart for telling a story through her cookies.

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Shannon Lescarini

Shannon is the owner of Whisk Confections in AL. She joined the cookie community in 2018 and hasn't looked back. She was a caker before then focusing on wedding cakes. It has been fun taking my buttercream techniques to royal icing. 

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Shari Weyrauch

Shari started her bakery in 2009 after 20 years in corporate sales. She enjoys the business side as well as the baking and watching confections take shape. Shari is an Elective Teacher for CookieCon and a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier International.

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Sheila Morales

Sheila is the business owner of Cookies and More LLC, cookie artist and instructor. 
Decorating cookies and teaching since 2008, 14 years!
Export specialist during the day and cookie decorator and instructor during the night.

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Susan Trianos

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.

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Teri Lewis

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.  

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Tricia
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 What started as a hobby for Tricia has turned into a home based business specializing in cakes and cupcakes. She has recently put her business plan into action and added decorated sugar cookies. She loves making memories magical!

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Veronica RebataLanda

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.

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Yvonne Smith 

Yvonne started designing stencils in June of 2022. She felt that making them in layers made it much quicker and cleaner to apply to a cookie without over spray.  

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