Cookie Decorating

A round sugar cookie decorated as a leprechaun owl with green icing and a top hat

A perfect treat for St. Patrick’s Day

I’ve been active in the competitive Cake World for more than 10 years now, but there is one confection that just seems to bring more joy to people than anything else: the cookie. It makes …

Paul Ciliberto holding a custom birthday plaque featuring a jukebox and caricature.

Happy Birthday, Paul Ciliberto!

  • News
  • September 27, 2024
  • 1 min

The host of Ciliberto and Friends on Catskill News Talk Radio becomes a Classic Hit himself on his birthday! I was honored to bring him this Birthday Cookie I made (commissioned by Bold Gold Media)...

Kim Simons with radio host Adam Owens in the DNH radio studio.

Kim Featured on DNH's TASTE TEST THURSDAY With Adam Owens

Cut-and-paste the link for a funny, informative interview. Kim shares Rowdy Reindeer cookies with Adam, who then shares hot sauce with Kim! (Originally broadcast Jan. 16, 2020) https://www.radiobold.

Three women holding heart cards in front of a De Filippis Bakery sign.

Kim Helps Raise Money for WSUL's HEART-A-THON

  • News
  • January 27, 2020
  • 2 mins

​MONTICELLO NY: It was five years ago that Joanna M. Gass suffered a heart attack. Three weeks later, she lost her husband to one of his own.   ​Arthur Gass was 53 years old.   “No one should...

Two people each holding a small white dog, with decorated pet-shaped sugar cookies displayed in front

Make a cookie out of your puppy

Yes, my four-and-a-half-pound Maltese dog is named after Ozzy Osbourne. I can’t help myself. I love both Ozzies. The story of my Ozzy is a bittersweet one. My friends Yvonne and Jim …

Three fondant-decorated cupcakes designed as a pig, cow, and sheep farm animals

Make a double-stuffed farm animal cookie

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I love animals. And I’m proud that the same love of animals has also manifested in my kids. My son Corey, for example, is a 6-foot-2-inch …

Two sugar cookies decorated with marbled blue, white, and black snowflake designs

Make an abstract snowflake cookie

If you’ve ever seen an image of a snowflake under a microscope, you know how amazingly beautiful they are. Individually or in clusters, snowflakes rival any artwork created by …

A Halloween shaker cookie decorated as a black cat on a jack-o'-lantern with sprinkles inside

Make this Halloween shaker cookie

I’ve always loved Halloween. Not only does it happen during my favorite season—fall—but it represents much of what I love about Mother Nature. As a kid in Liberty, NY, I …

A gingerbread cookie decorated with a landscape painting featuring white birch trees, a blue sky, and pink and yellow flower details

Make this ‘Mountain View’ cookie

Anyone with eyes can see that we live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. And because we live here, sometimes that’s easy to forget. I’ve been lucky enough to see …

Decorative wine bottle and wine glass cookies

Make this Solaia bottle cookie

By the time you read this, we as a society will have recently celebrated two milestones of freedom: Independence Day, which celebrates the birth of the United States on July 4, …

A modeling chocolate tiger face with rainbow-colored fur stripes and yellow eyes on a green background

Make this tiger cookie out of modeling chocolate

Summer is in full swing now, or at least in as full-a-swing as it can be in Phase Four. With the weather being warm, the sun shining brightly and COVID-19 cases waning (at least in New York), …