Our history is rather interesting,
and we
would like to share our story
with you.
After teaching elementary school
for 6 years,
I decided to quit and stay at
home with our
first, soon to be born, son.
Kaden was born
in August of 2001. School was
already back
in session, and I began to look
around for
a hobby to take up. I began a
business called
Icing on the Cake, where I baked
cookies,
breads, pies, and other sweets.
I custom
decorated cakes including wedding
cakes.
It was very stressful, it began
taking up
all my free time, and my kitchen
was constantly
covered in greasy icing!!
In the meantime, my mom, Judy
Baker, and
I had been making “homemade”
gifts for all
of our friends. We mixed up some
of our favorite
family recipes, packaged them
in Ziploc bags,
typed up the directions, and
sent them out
for Christmas, wedding, and baby
gifts. We
had a great response from everyone
who tasted
them, and then we started experimenting
with
other recipes. My mom and I have
both always
loved to be in the kitchen, baking,
cooking,
and experimenting. So, we really
had fun
with this!! We started to give
away other
mixes, and the popularity of
it all began.
We decided to spruce up our packaging
a little
and see if we could sell our
mixes using
the name Icing on the Cake. Our
first craft
show, in the summer of 2002,
we only had
about 20 different mixes, and
we only made
about 10 of each one. We were
so scared that
we wouldn’t sell them. Boy, were
we wrong!!
We knew immediately that we had
a good thing
going, and there could definitely
be a future
in this!
Now, we operate out of a specially
designed
building that serves as our kitchen,
warehouse,
and our showroom. It was built
by husband,
Shannon, and is located adjacent
to our home.
Its convenient location still
allows me to
stay at home with Kaden and our
new baby,
Kale, born in December of 2003.
We also changed our name to The
Gourmet Cupboard,
which seemed more fitting, and
I have given
up the cake business all together!!
We still
experiment all the time, sometimes
finding
exciting new mixes to put together
and sometimes
throwing out our concoctions,
but that is
the fun of it all!!
We hope you enjoy our mixes as
much as we
do. Let us know what you think!
Thanks!
Melissa Holmes and Judy Baker
Owners |
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