Time to wrap cookies for a Volunteer Appreciation Dinner tomorrow night. My brother baked them... nearly 100, now I'm going to help individual wrapped them up with a ribbon. They will make a sweat little treat.
My brother has always like baking, but his focus is on cookies, and they are delicious. Coworkers have enjoyed them and always say he should sell them. A few years ago he got a license to sell in Monterey County and when we moved to Roseville, he did all the paperwork to sell them in Placer County. Although they are great cookies, and disappear quickly when he takes them anywhere, he hasn't been able to find a market for them. He has a Cottage license which allows him to make them at home and sell them in person. To sell in stores, farmers markets, coffee shops he would need different types of permits, which is a big cost.
It's a dream to have a bakery/book shop someday, but for now that just a dream which seems to be a very far reach. It would be wonderful if my brother could just find some regular clients, that would help spread the word of his little business The Cookie Jar - Roseville.
Keep the dream alive! Do what you love and love what you do - if this is cookies - go for it. What about working with Real Estate agents in the area? Often they bake cookies just before an Open House so that the delicious smell of cookies wafts through the house and buyers are lulled into staying longer and thinking with their nose!! Seriously - my sister does this. She is a confectioner in Montana. He could also then build a website and take orders for special events that way.
ReplyDeleteI love this cookie/fox picture! I love that your brother is going for his dream!
ReplyDeleteThanks! The logo is actually a Red Panda named Galleta. The name means cookie in Spanish.
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