My mother raised me to be a baker. She grew up on a farm in the South. As a teenager, she earned extra money by baking bread for all the local farming families. She passed that love on to me, teaching me to bake from the time I could stand on a stool and help her knead bread dough.

By age twenty, I was the head pastry chef for a restaurant in Santa Monica, CA. We were named among "Top Ten Places for Dessert in Los Angeles." A few years later I launched a catering business and eventually went to culinary school to see what they knew.

Later, I left food service, went to college and had a successful career in government and nonprofit service, including moving to Pelham, Alabama and working as Executive Director for the Alabama Wildlife Center. But there was a strong calling to return to the simple joy of life as a baker. I put my apron on again and worked as head baker for Gigi's Cupcakes in Hoover, AL and then as head baker for George Sarris (Fish Market, Dodiyos and Yellow Bicycle Catering).

In December of 2013, I launched Sweet Home Bakery, creating classic American candies, baked goods and other treats made from grandma's recipes transformed for modern palates. We rent a commercial kitchen & are licensed by the health department.

Sweet Home Bakery's candies are currently sold in local stores (Birmingham Bake and Cook & Alabama Goods) and are available for shipping in the U.S. via Sweet Home Bakery's etsy.com shop. Starting in the summer of 2014, we will be an occasional vendor at famed Pepper Place Market. And we continue to search for the perfect storefront. Contact us for wholesale pricing, corporate gift-giving, wedding favors and any custom orders.

Sweet Home Bakery looks forward to making you say, "Yum!"

WHOLESALE * WEDDING FAVORS * CORPORATE GIFTS * FARMERS MARKETS * ETSY.COM * CUSTOM ORDERS