Careful Creations Bake Shop

Today I'm talking with Marissa at Careful Creations Bake Shop. You can follow on Facebook as well.

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Marissa  at Careful Creations Bake Shop in  Mankato, Minnesota. Good afternoon, Marissa. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. What a beautiful day we're having in Minnesota today. Oh gosh, yeah. I see that they're predicting snow the first four or five days of November. oh

00:29 So I mean I'm used to that with just moving back from Sioux Falls. We barely got snow last year. So this will be  a nice change for us Yeah, the last two winters have not been too bad for snow in Minnesota Just so you know, so you may luck out again and not have a whole lot of Oh,  man, my youngest children will be disappointed with no snow then

00:54 Yeah, I don't know. This weather's been nuts. And that's why I always start the podcast off with, how's the weather? But because you're right down the road for me, I was like, oh, it's a gorgeous day for both of us. Yeah. So tell me a little bit about yourself and what you do. So I am 28. I'm married. I'm a military wife. I have four kids. My husband and my eight-year-old daughter both have

01:24 tree nut allergies. My eight-year-old,  also has sunflower allergies.  my goal has always been to  make the environment safe for them. And  when we go to the store,  we can't really buy any baked goods because everything has some sort of manufactured on or near

01:53 nuts, then 90 % of store products do have sunflower of some sort. creating my own bakery company and business has been a dream come true because now I can keep my loved ones safe and other people's loved ones safe. love that you would not believe how many people I have talked to in the last two years.

02:21 who had a need for themselves, figured out how to fill that need and then were like, oh, I can help other people who have the same need. I love everybody in this community so much.  Yeah, it's a whole new ball game for me, but I am definitely excited to be able to  provide those special dietary needs for  my clientele and customers.

02:48 Mm-hmm. So how have you been getting the word out because you just started the business a little bit ago? So  this morning at about five o'clock, we actually launched  our website that is also  on my  Facebook page.  We have  a public group. We have a public page.  And also here in Mankato, we have been taking advantage  of the free public

03:17 bulletin boards and we have putting flyers out as well. And then Friday we receive our business cards so we'll be able to hand those out as well. Awesome. Tell me the website address if you know it off the top of your head now and then you can tell me at the end too. It is www.careful-creations-bake-shop.com. Okay, awesome. And I'll ask you again at the end so people can catch it at the end too.

03:48 So, so what are you  I know nothing about tree nut allergies or sunflower allergies because  I haven't had that in my family at all. So  are you just avoiding making things with nuts or have you found some kind of substitution for them? So  we completely avoid them altogether.  There are  things where we do substitute. So if like it is something for example

04:16 My favorite thing to make  is butter chicken, but traditional butter chicken requires cashews,  and that is the deadliest for my husband. So  when I make it, I actually leave it out completely. I just add a little bit of extra butter to make it a little nicer. Butter makes everything better. Oh yes.  But  most of the time we just avoid.

04:43 If there are recipes where we need to substitute, we usually use flax seed or we go ahead and use chia seeds. Okay, yeah. Can you use pumpkin seeds? Yes. Sometimes we will use pumpkin seeds. They're a little nuttier than sunflower seeds, which I personally like, but