Cookies for sale!

I'm currently selling my original, homemade cookies in Brompton Cafe at Rough Trade NYC http://www.roughtradenyc.com/ 64 N. 9th in Williamsburg, the cafe is usually open 11-7 daily.  There you can find three flavors at a time:  my bestsellers are usually there~ Chocolate Salted Coffee, which is a pillowy chocolate chunk cookie loaded with chocolate, flavored with espresso and topped with sea salt, and Golden Bourbon Oat, which is my take on an oatmeal cookie, but better, in my humble opinion: a chewy and crispy cookie studded with bourbon-soaked golden raisins, also topped with salt.  The third flavor alternates; right now you can find Chocolate Chocolate Cherry~ a chewy, fudgy chocolate cookies packed with chocolate chunks and chewy bing cherries.  In the past I have made Maple Peanut Butter (a gluten-free maple-flavored chewy pb cookie with a crisp outer shell), Sunbutter S'More (a gluten-free take on peanut butter but subbed with sunflower seed butter, then packed with chocolate chunks and mini marshmallows), and Lemon Wheat Shortbread (a whole wheat shortbread cookie that's lemony, dense, chewy and flaky).

These cookies are a whopping 4 ounces (big boys) and are sold for $3 a piece.  Occasionally I'll make some minis that are sold for $1.

 If you have a craving for a flavor I'm not offering I'm always up for a challenge!  Drop me a line and I'll see if I can deliver!  

Speaking of deliver, I can make these cookies for you personally!  I don't have a  brick-and-mortar spot but that doesn't mean that you can't have your cookies and eat them, too!  I'll be happy to get you a custom order and arrange to get them to you.  Send me an email:  sugarsnapbaking@gmail.com or message me on facebook:  facebook.com/sugarsnapbaking and let's talk!  

I don't just do cookies, either.  But that's another post ;) 

AudreyBloom Crafts

Back in 2009 I opened an etsy page after a stint at making hair fascinators, headbands, pins, and clips with feathers, ribbon, beads and found object and made a couple sales online, along with sales to friends and locals at various craft fairs around the city.  I let the shop go stagnant when couldn't find time to manage it and the items expired.  Since then I have taken on craft projects when they present themselves to me and when I can find the time because I love to work with my hands and I find it quite relaxing and fulfilling to make something out of nothing!

A friend recently gifted me with a small bag full of swatches of vintage fabrics and I was inspired immediately to make bow ties out of them!  I dressed my cat, Dexter, in one of my first finished products and posted the pic on social media, only to get a couple orders right away!  After that, I made a mini bow tie for a friend's baby-to-be and have been creating bows of various sizes for whatever your bow tie needs!  Custom orders are fun, but I also have a variety of different sized bows ready to wear so take a look and see if anything calls to you ;)

etsy.com/shop/audreybloom

Website in the works!

Busy clicking away over here in Sugarsnap Baking Land, getting my website up and running!  Stay tuned!!!  

Sugarsnap Baking

I'm excited to announce the official launch of my home-based baking business, Sugarsnap Baking!

Lover of all things warm and yeasty and toasty and gratifying, I figure it's about time I make what I have done for years as a career working for others as well as do in most of my spare time and make it my own. 

 Having began my career in food at the age of 15, I can't seem to keep myself away from it despite all my arstistic interests pulling me in every direction.  

I started as a barista at the only cool coffee shop in my small town of Oakhurst, CA and quickly graduated to chef's assistant, where I stayed until I moved to Valencia, CA for college.  After settling in I took on a job that began as a bagel sandwich maker and transitioned into me as the sole baker in the bagel bakery.  By 19 I baked (also as the sole baker) in a little bakery selling muffins, coffee, and fudge in North Hollywood.  Not realizing it was my calling, I guess, when I moved to NYC in early 2000 I took on various jobs waiting tables...but before long I was back in the game, this time working as a pastry cook under a talented pastry chef in a Midtown French-Moroccan brasserie.  I worked there past the chef's departure and was hired as the breakfast baker and restaurant consultant at a fresh restaurant serving international dishes.  After that, I baked at a homey bakery and catering company up in East Harlem as their head baker and in between did a stint as a pastry and bread baker at a bakery in BedStuy.  

Getting pregnant with my son, Kieran (who is now 2!) put my professional baking career on hold, but, because I believe everything happens for a reason, it was just in time.  I had always wanted to bake for myself and have full creative control (I got a taste of this at the international spot because the owner gave me full control to develop my own menu) and suddenly I had more time to bake for others in my spare time because I was growing a little bun in my own oven and not slaving over someone else's hot oven.  Not that I'm complaining- I love the work.  The environment envelops me: getting up at the crack of dawn, basking in a quiet city, then the peace and warmth of a still kitchen, getting my ducks in a row by organizing my tasks, then blasting my music when the coffee kicks in.  The food warms me: my sense of smell is quite sharp and I love nothing more than to breathe it all in.  And I love to eat so- hello.  A constant supply of snacks.  Don't mind if I do!   I also love to share my food and am quite critical of my own food, so when I do something I'm proud of I want to give it to everyone to try!  Which brings me to sharing: I want to make others happy, and a loaf of bread or a warm cookie can do that real fast! 

I was working as a preschool teacher (another passion is children and I have worked with them on and off my whole life), which naturally means making low-sugar, healthful cupcakes and teaching little cooking classes, right?  Well, it meant that for me!  And of course I have never stopped baking for my friends and family, so that meant cookies in the mail, king cakes at parties, gluten-free breads and snacks for my celiac pals.  And while I helped run a non-for-profit arts collective I sold many a cookie, sandwich, and goodie at the bar.  

Fast-forward to more recent times:  a friend needed cupcakes for a photoshoot, a local mom needed more cupcakes, and a cafe needed cookies, so what's a girl to do?  Give the people treats, of course!  And make some money doing it!

~Jessica