Sweet Talk with Francine's Sweets: Episode 5
- Alayna Kendall
- Nov 22, 2024
- 3 min read
Alayna here. We’re back for volume 5 of the sweetest email in your inbox.
Today we’re chatting about a new, easy way to order treats, another barre3 pop-up, and how my high school prom influenced my latest sweet treat!
Let’s sweet talk.
A New Way to Order!
I am happy to announce that I now have an online order form! This is a very exciting update, as it streamlines the ordering process and makes it easier for all parties involved.
If you think filling out forms is boring, JUST YOU WAIT. This one leads you to cookies and cakes! You can find the form here, in my IG bio, or on my website. Happy ordering!
Barre3, Round 2!
Thanks to everyone that came and bought cookies at my barre3 pop-up last week! I sold out in two hours and that’s all in thanks to YOU! I moonlight as a fitness instructor there during the week, so it was a blast for two of my passions to come together!
Keep your eyes peeled, because I’ll be back on Tuesday, December 10th from 4:30pm-6:30pm. This time, you can pre-order cookies to ensure you get what you want, just in time for the holidays! Fill out this form to pre-order today!
Cookie (Cake) of the Week
A cookie cake is such a great, festive option for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or a birthday! It’s easily customizable and feeds a crowd (seriously, this will feed at least 10-12). Those cute lil letters are white chocolate and completely edible. And the best part about the Christmas sprinkles you see in the pic above? They are free from artificial dyes! YUP. The coloring in the sprinkles is from all vegetable juices, spirulina, turmeric, and beta carotene. No Red-40 over here. It’s a sweet treat you can feel good about serving to your kids and family. I’ve been on the hunt to use less dyes in my baked goods and I’m pumped to have found a great company with American-made products (shout out Supernatural) who is aligned with this too!
Cookie cakes really take me back. All the way back to high school prom. I was sitting in the back of American Government when the classroom door opened, and standing there was an office aide delivering a Mrs. Fields cookie cake to someone in our class. Knowing it couldn’t possibly be for me, I went back to half-heartedly taking notes on whatever WWII documentary we were watching. When my teacher called my name and gestured me over, I was shocked, and a little part of me wondered if my high school crush, who had a girlfriend at the time, had finally wised up, broken it off with her and was using this cookie cake to profess his undying love for me.
I opened up the box with the sounds of the Battle of Normandy exploding in the background, to find that written on the cookie cake were the words “Prom? -Bruce”
Sadly, “Bruce” (we’ll keep his name redacted due to the large reach of this newsletter (LOL)) was one of my very good friends. Emphasis on the word “friend”. I didn’t know what to do, so I did what any clear thinking 16-year-old would do. I told my teacher I had to use the bathroom and walked, nay, ran, to the school office, where I called my mom. She asked if anyone else was going to ask me to prom, to which that answer was an emphatic “no”. She advised me that I could either say yes to “Bruce”, or go by my lonesome.
So I ended up saying yes, and got a sweet cookie cake and some good memories out of the deal. Who knew all these years later, it would inspire me in my cookie business! The gift that keeps on giving!
Looking back on this almost 15 years later, I think it’s endearing that my buddy sent me a cookie cake to ask me to prom. I’m still convinced that “Bruce” truly wanted to go as just friends, though my husband would argue otherwise.
And if you have a lovesick teenager who wants to profess his undying love to his high school crush, this cookie cake is the way to go.
Thanks for reading!
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