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November 11, 2009 by Angela Shupe | 1 Comment

The Palm Beach Post:

Stephanie Rolle’s mother, Betty, started baking her special oatmeal cookies with raisins last fall.

“People just fell in love with them,” said Rolle, who recently opened Savannah’s Gourmet Cookies, Treats and Gifts in the Crowne Plaza hotel.

Then people asked, “Can you be the concession at our high school play?” A bride called and said, “Can you do cookies at my wedding reception?”

Before they knew it, the mother and daughter were shipping cookies as Christmas gifts to customers who wanted them in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey.

“We had to cut off the orders on Christmas Eve,” Rolle said.

“I told my family, ‘If you want Christmas dinner, it will be cookies.’”

In July their cottage business got a brick-and-mortar home. Rolle and her mother, Bernadine “Betty” Lazier, set up shop in a former Starbucks.

Rolle, who also owns a consulting firm, decided to call the shop Savannah’s “for the daughter I would have had if I would have had a daughter.”

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