KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — A woman in Kalamazoo has turned her mother’s secret cookie recipe into a successful business.
In January, Kristi Potts started making frosted whispers cookies — her mom’s secret cream cheese sugar cookie recipe made with almond extract — for her friends and family.
“I started making them with my mother in January. She’s 79 and she doesn’t make them as much anymore,” she told News 8 over the phone Tuesday. “I’m the only one left in the family to continue the recipe. … I started making them and there was a large following, and next thing you know, I had people asking to order my cookies.”
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She started selling the cookies at the Kalamazoo Farmers Market and the Texas Township in May, often selling out. Under Michigan’s cottage law, she made them in her 10 foot by 12 foot home kitchen, with 50-pound bags of flour and sugar taking over the space.
By July, she’d bought her own kitchen, a space with a drive-thru at 1502 Westnedge Ave. near Pioneer Street in Kalamazoo…