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Is For (Chanukah)
Cookie
Celebrate the holiday (and beyond) with
mouthwatering, gorgeous confections.
Suzanne Chessler | Contributing Writer
aura Rose Feld is teaching
her two young children
that mistakes — “oopsies”
— sometimes can leave a good
taste in your mouth.
With a new cookie-making
business based in her home
kitchen, Feld lets her kids eat
the ones with decorations that
do not turn out exactly up to her
standards.
Now that Thanksgiving orders
with turkeys, acorns and other
holiday symbols are behind her,
Feld has moved on to Chanukah
treats while still filling requests
for personal celebrations, includ-
ing birthdays, anniversaries,
showers or those “just because.”
“The Chanukah cookies will be
decorated with dreidels, meno-
rahs and other traditions, and
there will be cookies that invite
kids to fill in colors according to
design outlines,” she says. “I sup-
ply the brushes and food colors.”
Feld, who launched her busi-
ness, Laura Rose Cookies, last
June, has made as many as 250
cookies in one week. The size of
each cookie is between three and
four inches wide. Early custom-
ers, family and friends spread
the word as she developed a
Facebook page to attract more
buyers.
The business operates under
the Michigan Cottage Food Law,
which allows people to prepare
certain edibles out of their
homes.
“Although the designs are
planned for each customer, the
cookies are all made with the
same vanilla-almond flavor,”
she explains. “There are a lot of
sugar-cookie recipes online, and
I tried many of them out on my
family before deciding on the
final one, which I tweaked to get
a flavor all my tasters liked best.”
Feld, a University of Michigan
economics graduate who worked
in the benefits banking field for
10 years in Chicago, became a
self-taught baker since return-
ing to Michigan five years ago.
After starting a family, she began
thinking about career possi-
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