Fairy cake tails

How It All Began.....

Cookie Girl came into reality at a time when I desperately needed to earn money. She is actually based on a character that I invented for a film script that I was working on. So its kind of life imitating art that hasn’t actually been realized yet, confused? You will be….I had to think of something that I was good at and people would give me money for...then I thought of something else, baking.

I picked cookies simply because they were the thing that cooked the fastest. That night I stayed up baking till two in the morning and the next day dressed in a suitable costume (I am an actress after all) and carrying an old fashioned basket I sold fifty cookies for fifty pounds which was a great result, I also met some interesting people. Lets face it it's a great foot in the door, people don't shut the door on warm fresh cookies, at least not very often, but that’s a whole other story.

As I came across so many interesting characters (it does help to live in London's Notting Hill) I began to write a blog about my adventures this soon led to a column in Grove magazine which you can read on this site.