Rachelle Germain’s mother instilled her with a love of baking. The Milk and Cookies Bakeshop’s owner and pastry chef spent her childhood in the kitchen baking with her mom. “We would decorate sugar cookies every holiday,” she says, “and we would make chocolate chip cookies all the time. That was our thing. We would do sugar cookies for Valentine’s and Halloween and Easter, basically any excuse. They were never like this, I never used piping bags, we used knives and spread the icing on and chucked some sprinkles on like ‘Tada!’”
The sugar cookie recipe that Rachelle uses for her business is an adaptation of her mom’s original recipe, and she still bakes with her mom today. Recently, she recruited her mom to help her with a custom sugar cookie order: 300 playing cards for a casino night. Other custom cookies have included snowflakes for an Ice Castle event, houses for a Rutherford House event and a herd of little moose for a book release event.
Rachelle is very talented. I asked for a beach inspired cake for my sister’s baby shower and she delivered. The cake was so pretty, guest adored it, and loved how it tasted too! I’m glad to have found a great baker for our future parties!