11/14/2025
Blast from the past! Glad this post aged well!🤪
Five years ago, I decorated my very first set of cookies. I had just watched Food Network’s Christmas Cookie Challenge and thought, “Hmm… I wonder if I could do that?” So that weekend, I ran over to Cooks in West Allis, grabbed whatever supplies I thought I needed, and set out to learn sugar cookie decorating.
I mixed up my royal icing colors, only to wonder why they looked so dull.😂 Spoiler alert: I was using decorating gel instead of food coloring gel. Rookie mistake! Even so, I remember finishing that first batch feeling ridiculously proud, while also knowing they weren’t exactly masterpieces.🙈 But that didn’t stop me, and I practiced and practiced my little t***y off for weeks until I got a little better and posted another set.
Then came the text that changed everything: my friend Sanam asked if I could make Thanksgiving cookies if she bought the cutters-subtracting those from whatever I would charge for a dozen. That simple request sparked the beginning of my small business.
To Sanam, and to all the friends and family who cheered me on and supported me in those early days. You saw the passion before the polish, and you believed in me. Because of you, this little dream has grown into opportunities and adventures I never imagined: from being asked to be a chef judge for a March of Dimes Fundraiser, to making cookies for a handful of Democratic Leaders-including the one and only VP Kamala Harris.🇺🇸 While not discounting the hundreds of other sets I’ve created to help celebrate special milestones in many people’s lives.
Five years later, I’m still pinching myself. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.❤️
