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Volume 16, Issue 12
Bloomingdale/ FishHawk Edition
Local Bakers Offer Holiday Cookie Works Of Art For Shop Local Gift With the holidays approaching and many occasions calling for sweet treats, these local entrepreneurs take cookie making to the next level creating custom works of art that taste great too.
The Butter Tree
your own dozen cookies,” said Williams. “We work on several together and decorate each cookie in sections. Everyone leaves with beautifully decorated cookies they made themselves.” The group is limited to 10 people and classes range from one-and-ahalf to two hours. In addition to regular adult classes, Williams also offers kids’ classes at Cool Beans and has a “Cookies for Santa” class planned this month. Search The Sugared Owl on Facebook, for more information, or contact Williams by emailing at jkwilliams78@hotmail.com.
By Kate Quesada
make cookies for the party. They were such a success that she decided to turn her hobby into a business and 2 Little Sweets was born. “After months of practicing at night while my girls slept, so I wouldn’t be chasing them and baking, I began posting my creations on social media,” said Escobar. “Friends and neighbors began showing interest in the cookies and asked if I would sell them. Escobar’s cookies are custom orders to any design, color or size. “It is a labor of love,” she said, noting that each cookie is hand decorated and freshly baked. “It is a consuming and long process with cookie dough, icing, mixing, baking, decorating and packing.” 2 Little Sweets requests a minimum order of a dozen cookies, but can make any number higher than 12. “All the decorated cookies are custom and because they are custom, you won’t find my cookies to look, taste or feel like the cookies you would find at the supermarket,” said Escobar, who especially enjoys when her customers send her pictures of them enjoying her products. For more information, contact Escobar at cookiesby2littlesweets@yahoo.com or search 2 Little Sweets on Facebook.
FishHawk resident Erin Cowan Custom cookies baked and decorated by Erin Cowan of The Butter Tree. owns and operates The Butter Tree, specializing in custom decorated sugar cookies for any occasion from birthday parties to weddings and showers. Cowan, a former lawyer who practiced in New York City 2 Little Sweets before moving to Florida, started the When FishHawk resbusiness to keep ident Paula Escobar’s busy while staying youngest daughter home with her chilturned one four years Kerry Williams of The Sugared Owl creates custom cookies based on customer dren. ago, she decided to requests. “I got started after late sugar cookrandomly coming across a blog post ies for the holiabout decorated sugar cookies in days. All cookies 2001,” said Cowan. “I have no profesare decoded sional training and am self-taught with a “Frankenfrom trial and error.” frosting,” which The Butter Tree offers vanilla or is a mixture of almond sugar cookies with royal Royal Icing and icing. Each cookie is custom, hand glaze. created and takes several days to “Customers make as Cowan works from scratch, contact me for baking, coloring the icing and then any theme they decorating and drying each cookie. would like and we She asks for at least three or four work to come up days advance notice for orders. with the designs For more information, search The they want,” said FishHawk resident Paula Escobar makes cookies of any size, color and design. Butter Tree on Facebook, or call Williams. (646) 522-8952. The Sugared Owl began offering cookie classThe Sugared Owl es, which have In addition to making decorated been hosted in sugar cookies, Kerry Williams of The Cool Beans cofSugared Owl, also offers Make and fee shop in Take classes, where residents can FishHawk and learn to work with Royal Icing and Kraftology in pick up the techniques used to make Brandon, a year their own delicious works of art. ago. Williams, a FishHawk residents has “You gather been decorating cookies for four some friends and Chequita Burgess makes beautifully decorated cookies through her business C&C years and offers vanilla/orange, vanilCookie Factory. come decorate la/almond, peanut butter and choco-
Chequita Burgess of C&C Cookie Factory C&C Cookie Factory started making cookies five years ago for her friends, family, teachers, coaches and neighbors, but her delicious works of art were such a success that she started selling them last year. C&C Cookie Factory is a registered Florida Cottage Bakery operating out of Burgess’ home. “My signature product is my vanilla almond cookies, since they seem to be the preferred flavor,” said Burgess who also offers chocolate, chocolate coffee, peanut butter, pumpkin spice and pumpkin heath. For more information or to order, search C&C Cookie Factory on Facebook.
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