If you are thinking about starting a cookie business that specializes in or includes products for customers with special dietary needs, then you may want to take a look at this Taste.tv video featuring the Compassionate Cooks, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and Alka Chandna:

Chef Eddie Holloway shows us how to make chocolate cookies an even tastier treat.

Wedding cookies have become a very popular, creative and affordable favor for wedding guests in recent years. If you are thinking about starting a cookie business that includes decorated cookies, be sure to explore this lucrative opportunity. If you are intimidated by making decorated cookies in large quantities, know that the decorating process can often be set up in an assembly-line fashion enabling you to complete large orders systematically and bring in hundreds of dollars in sales in a weekend. If you don’t do decorated cookies, you might want to consider adding that skill to your toolbox. There are many cookie decorating courses out there that can train you in no time.

As we’ve seen with the entire wedding industry, if you can make a good impression on a couple in the first stages of their live together, you can have life-long customers (house-warming parties, baby–showers, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) who will refer you on to their business and come back to again and again. Another reason making wedding favor cookies can boost your business is that there are hundreds of perspective customers who will sample your product.

A lovely and inexpensive way to prepare cookies as wedding favors is in clear bags with ribbon ties and personalized favor tags.

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I just had to try these Lemon Whoopie Pies from Joy The Baker. These just scream springtime, so if you’re finally enjoying some lovely weather, bake up some of these delights. They are perfect with a nice cup of tea or coffee. If you’re looking for a lovely seasonal cookie for your business, these are a strong candidate. Follow the link for the recipe.

These cookies are a play on the traditional chocolate and marshmallow whoopie pies. They come out to be absolutely enormous, so feel free to make minis if you don’t have as big a cookie capacity as I do. They’re best a day after baking, served cold from the fridge.

Lemon Whoopie Pies at Joy The Baker

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