Grammy K's Turns Passion Into Big Profit With Cookies
The aroma of peanut butter fills a small shop at the Spruce Creek Fly-In, across from a runway where Kathy Blackman is baking cookies.
But these aren’t just any cookies. They’re Grammy K’s Monster Cookies.
The recipe for the dessert plate-sized sweets was created more than 30 years ago by Blackman, when she was a young mom, and a Pennsylvania girlfriend of hers. Over the years, the pair baked the treats for fun — their children’s birthdays, holidays and family get-togethers.
Not until last year did Blackman start baking the sweets for profit, with her girlfriend’s blessing.
“It’s about six inches — with peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chips and raisins, but no flour — gluten free. The peanut butter holds it together,” said Blackman, 54, about her sweet creations. “Whenever I was doing anything or going anywhere, people would say, bring your monster cookies.”
She used to bake them patiently — in batches of five-at-a-time.
But last year, when Blackman started baking her monster cookies for sale, she was doing it at home, around the clock — up to 500 a day — until she burned up her oven.
That’s when she bought a new oven and moved into the Fly-In shop. Now she’s going to begin using an industrial-sized baking oven, which can bake dozens of the monster cookies at a time.
“It’s time for her to start working smarter,” said her son Mark Blackman, 31, a pilot living in Ponce Inlet — whom Mom credits with the idea of going commercial with the cookies.
Mark has been noshing on his mom’s monster cookies since he was a child.
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Lillie Davis on July 10th, 2008 6:34 pm
Yummy, I don’t dare show this to my husband. He a cookie-aholic.
Lillie
Xocai Healthy Chocolate on July 26th, 2008 7:59 am
Sounds wonderful! I haven’t made monster cookies for years. I remember that they can be a challenge to make but are wonderfully tasty.
You could add bits of Xocai Healthy Chocolate to add flavor and more health benefits to the cookies.
Best of luck in your continued success.
Robin
http://www.DreamChocolate.Org
jaeda on September 15th, 2008 10:09 am
that’s pretty funny Lillie Davis, my boyfriend loves cookies too.. i wonder if he will like this one.
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