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Like many, Courtney Demarest had loads of downtime throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally like many, she seen that folks may use a smile as a consequence of their very own downtime, or stress.
Each would encourage Brighter Days Cookie Co., a enterprise Demarest launched from her Auburn house in January.
Demarest, who works in customer support at a veterinary clinic within the Auburn space, operates Brighter Days with a home processor license. Earlier than that, she labored at a couple of eating places. However her love of baking reaches again additional. She realized it from her mom and grandmother, and it was whereas she was making Christmas cookies together with her household final yr that the thought for the enterprise took form.
“I did not have a lot occurring throughout COVID-19, and I actually needed to convey one thing joyful again to folks,” she informed The Citizen. “That is what impressed the identify ‘Brighter Days.'”
Demarest’s cookies vary in taste from cinnamon roll and mint chip to peanut butter cup and cookies ‘n’ cream, and the most well-liked is butter vanilla. Her specialty is sugar cookies made with royal icing. It takes the type of a tough, flat and clean floor, Demarest defined, so it may be layered. That provides her a sugary canvas the place she will pipe writing, floral patterns and extra.
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“You may create lots with it, however royal icing shouldn’t be forgiving,” she mentioned. “I’ve had some orders which can be difficult, very intricate ones, however they make me a greater baker.”
Demarest mentioned she will get about three or 4 orders per week, some for a number of dozen cookies. Her summer season was busy with weddings and engagements, and because the holidays method, she’s been even busier. However she’s glad to be, and hopes the cookies she bakes unfold that happiness the way in which she meant when she began Brighter Days Cookie Co. from her house.
“My principal mission is to convey folks collectively and put extra smiles on folks’s faces, to convey folks along with a deal with,” she mentioned. “One thing to provide as a present, or when you’ve got a candy tooth, for you.”
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