About
It runs in the family
I first learned to bake cookies from this Betty Crocker cookbook I used with my mom. Years later, I was baking cookies with my own daughters. Now I’m doing it all over again with my grandson.
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Cookies have always been how I make memories, a little flour, a lot of sprinkles, and someone gets to lick the spoon.
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That’s the feeling behind Cookies with Kerry.
Hi, I'm Kerry
Where it Began
It started at a Michael's cake decorating class, a weekly date night with my husband. From there we made every birthday cake our daughters requested. A three-tier Ariel wedding cake. 101 Dalmatians. Barney. Barbie. The whole catalog.​
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In the 1990's I first saw decorated sugar cookies in a magazine and thought: I want to make those. I wanted to be Martha Stewart, back when I still thought she was just an overachiever with exceptional taste.
Then I Went all In
finding my people
I took a culinary school course in fondant and royal icing, watched approximately ten thousand YouTube videos, and figured out how to make cookies that made people stop and stare.
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Then I found an entire world of people just like me at the very first CookieCon, a conference for cookie decorators to learn techniques, obsess over packaging, buy every cutter in the room, and find their people. I've been twelve times. I'm known there as the World's Okayest Cookie Artist.
When a Hobby Goes too Far
During COVID, while everyone else made sourdough, I was recreating Great British Bake-Off showstoppers.
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And yes, I bring the whole obsession to Burning Man - cookies baked on the playa, a lighted crown of resin sprinkles and cookie cutters at sunset. When your hobby follows you all the way to the desert, it might be more than a hobby.
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These days I get to teach all of it, come make some with me.